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Take a bow all those who contribute to the discussion and find ways to be patient enough to continue working to enrich it. mike On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>wrote: > I don't think we should personalise any feelings of inferiority. Firstly, > CHAT practitioners have precious little space to publish in, (3 journals?) > and so good work goes unpublished and good thinker on XMCA get their > academic feelings hurt. Secondly, we are globally in a "publish or perish" > Catch 22; jobs maybe, but certainly tenure and promotion depend upon this. > And finally, genuinely new knowledge is extremely difficult to construct. > So, we write run of the mill papers in run of the mill journals and feel > bad > about it, but have bread on the table. Thank goodness we have XMCA where > we > can occasionally construct new knowledge. It is a tremendous place to > be--take a bow, Mike. > Carol > > On 21 August 2011 09:15, Jenna McWilliams <jennamcjenna@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I feel a need to articulate how wonderful and exhilarating it is to have > > the > > opportunity to witness conversations like this, if only from the > sidelines. > > > > sent via Droid > > > > On Aug 21, 2011 1:50 AM, "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > > > > David, your message sent me to check the "Instructions to Authors" and I > > see > > they are out of date, and do not reflect current practice, so I will > raise > > this with the other editors and we can redraft the instructions according > > to > > our current practice. That said ... the opportunity to submit > commentaries > > on articles previously published in MCA remains in place. > > > > Eugene's commentary was 4,800 words; my commentary was 3,300 words. We > need > > to discuss, but I would have thought these are somewhat long for > comments. > > We will discuss. Generally commentaries are not subject to the same > > criteria > > for publication. Both these were commentaries on edirorial practice, so > > they > > were a bit trickier. We will discuss. I have tended to presume that > > original > > manuscripts should be 6-8,000 words and all are subject to peer review > and > > I > > don't see any change in that. Book reviews are treated quite differently, > > but we need to formalise this clearly. > > > > The practice of publishing editorials has not been changed, but after the > > editorial introducing ourselves, I don't see this as being a continuing > > practice, and certainly there has been no talk of invited editorials, but > > we > > can discuss it. > > > > Andy > > > > David Kellogg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Andy: > > > > I don't really want to start in again on my own rejections. As you > > say, > > > there are proba... > > > <http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.**com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@** > mira.net< > > http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@mira.net> > > > >>/* > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net > > > <http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.**com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@** > mira.net< > > http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@mira.net> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: MCA on Thompson Reuters ISI list > > > > > To: "eXtended Mind, ... > > > > > > > < > http://us.mc1225.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > >> > > > > > > > > Date: Friday, August 19, 2011, 4:50 AM > > > > > > > > > > I am one of the editors, Arthur,... > > > <http://www.informaworld.com/**smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=** > > > g932564744< > > http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Edb=all%7Econtent=g932564744> > > > > > > > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ < > > http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/** > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857 > > > > <http://www.brill.nl/default.... > > > MIA: http://www.marxists.org <http://www.marxists.org/> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > > > _____ > > > > xmca mailing list > > > > xmca@weber... > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Andy Blunden* > > Joint E... > > __________________________________________ > > _____ > > xmca mailing list > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > > > > -- > "*It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of > work > to do."* > Visiting Lecturer > Wits School of Education > Research Fellow > Linguistics Dept: Unisa > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca