Diane K. Jakacki

Tag: process

  • Trying to Move the Needle: Expanding the DH Reviewer Pool

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    Today it was #Brexit. Two days ago it was #nobillnobreak. Two weeks ago it was #Orlando. Friends and colleagues in Texas are attending workshops on how to deal with campus carry. Friends and colleagues in the U.K. and Europe are wondering about … everything. I don’t mean to conflate the profound and disturbing events and trends that have…

  • Report from the Grading Trenches, Dispatch Two

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    As you’ll know if you’ve read the last few posts that my ambitious course plans for the semester have prompted me to think more carefully not only about the feedback I give, but how I give that feedback and how fine-grained I can make that feedback without driving myself to distraction. Here at the Writing…

  • Scrivener: let me count the ways

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    If I didn’t already have enough reasons to love Scrivener, George Williams’ post in today’s Profhacker, “Scrivener Makes a Good Transcription Tool” clinches the deal. I wish I’d known about this in April when I was scrambling to transcribe an interview for TECHStyle using ExpressScribe, which was unwieldy and awkward. Go go Scrivener!