Notes on the project behind the rhetoric, or What We're Really Asking

From IConference

I (Libby) am coming back to this page to describe my take on the questions we pose in this workshop. I have notes on recent MSI graduates' reactions to the way the questions are worded and wants to set the record less crooked. Stay tuned.

I'm concerned that people reading the questions we pose may have reactions similar to my MSI-holding roommate's. We are NOT asking how to get master's students to be our research slaves. NOT AT ALL. Instead, we are asking how to better balance scholarly research and professional education. We don't mean to privilege one or the other but rather to figure out ways for them to benefit each other.

Here's a quote from one of my informants: "Reading recent articles on the work my professors' do is still useful to me, but the time I had to spend reading poorly written research articles vs the time I got to spend sitting at a reference desk or learning how acquisition works...I didn't get to learn that in classrooms."