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Report: English Lit Professors Write Too Much Boring Crap
By Rootman on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 7:43am |"Many professors enjoy their work, finding it rewarding and helpful to their other professional duties, but if their books and essays do not find readers sufficient to justify the effort, the publication mandate falls short of its rationale, namely, to promote scholarly communication and the advancement of knowledge," Bauerlein wrote in the report. "To put it bluntly, universities ask English professors to labor upon projects of little value to others, incurring significant opportunity costs."
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http://gawker.com/5861448/report-english-lit-professors-write-too-much-boring-crap?tag=college
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