Dispelling the Texting Myths
David Crystal tells us that txtng is nothing worry about
Help Me Write!
Who are your favorite travel writers?
Inside Oxford: Questions For Niko Pfund
Part Two
Niko Pfund, OUP’s academic and trade publisher, answers a frequent question – how do you decide what to publish, and what not to publish? Oxford has a rigorous review process through which we vet all prospective publications. If you e-mail a proposal to an OUP editor, here’s what happens…
Inside Oxford: Questions for Niko Pfund
Today we have the honor of having Niko Pfund, publisher-extraordinaire, answer some questions he is often asked. Be sure to check back tomorrow to see part two of this series. Having worked at both a midsized press (NYU) and the world’s largest university press (OUP), and with experience as both an editor and a manager, […]
Don’t Know Much About Washington (or history and economics for that matter)
Mark McNeilly criticizes civic knowledge of American citizens.
Historically Black Colleges: Anecdote Doesn’t Equal Evidence
To celebrate the publication of the AANB we asked Dr. Marybeth Gasman to contribute to the OUPblog.
Geography Awareness Week 2007
Ben celebrates Geography Awareness Week!
Privacy in Peril?
If you increasingly feel that information about your life is taking on a life of its own; collected, monitored, and transmitted by interests outside your control—you’re probably not paranoid. A recent story tells of a school in England, that’s experimenting with electronic tracking of its pupils.
How To Change The World: Social Entrepreneurs
Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively. They have analyzed their orientation to action, to risk, and to growth; they have explored the entrepreneur’s “personal value orientation” and “internal locus of control” and searched for clues to explain change.
Grant Writing: Things That You Can Do To Learn Scholarship
An excerpt from The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants.
A Letter from Liverpool: ‘All You Need Is – What?’
Philip Davis is back!
God Goes To Harvard
D. Michael Lindsay looks at the changes in faith on campus.
Read Out Loud!
Below Philip Davis, author of Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life, combines science with literature to convince us to read out loud more often.
God’s Blog
Philip Davis’s second blog.
Otherness
Author Philip Davis begins his blog.
Is This It?
Evan Schnittman sings the praises of CafeScribe.