Comments on: Vote for your favorite academic haikus http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/24/vote-for-your-favorite-academic-haiku/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:08:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jacob Christensen http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/24/vote-for-your-favorite-academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-188061 Jacob Christensen Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:20:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/24/vote-for-your-favorite-academic-haiku/#comment-188061 A very fascinating competition. I've been in charge of the MA thesis course in my department for some time and at the introduction I usually tell the students that if they can compress their argument into a haiku, so much the better. The reason is of cause that students always ask <em>How many pages do we have to write?</em> (and always think <em>more pages = better grade</em>) and I always have to say that arguments, not pages count in grading. Well, now the joke has come back to haunt me...it can be done. A very fascinating competition. I’ve been in charge of the MA thesis course in my department for some time and at the introduction I usually tell the students that if they can compress their argument into a haiku, so much the better.

The reason is of cause that students always ask How many pages do we have to write? (and always think more pages = better grade) and I always have to say that arguments, not pages count in grading.

Well, now the joke has come back to haunt me…it can be done.

]]> By: Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/24/vote-for-your-favorite-academic-haiku/comment-page-1/#comment-188060 Jim Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:07:37 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/24/vote-for-your-favorite-academic-haiku/#comment-188060 Whoops, you're right about your article, Eszter. Definitely belongs in the social science category. I was just flying through a text file of all the submissions that included only poems and titles (not the citation) and seeing something about the Internet I just bundled it with others. The other categories were also just slapped together without much thought. On the plus side, you're facing far less competition because the tech/computer/Internet category has the fewest entries! :) Whoops, you’re right about your article, Eszter. Definitely belongs in the social science category. I was just flying through a text file of all the submissions that included only poems and titles (not the citation) and seeing something about the Internet I just bundled it with others. The other categories were also just slapped together without much thought.

On the plus side, you’re facing far less competition because the tech/computer/Internet category has the fewest entries! :)

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