Monthly Archives: January 2007

Teaching Management

I’m a little old fash­ioned. Aside from keep­ing up with things using RSS, I also sub­scribe to a num­ber of mail­ing lists. One of them men­tioned a book, namely: bq. Clawson, J. G., & Haskins, M. E. (2006). _Teaching man­age­ment: A field guide for pro­fess­ors, cor­por­ate train­ers and consultants_. Cam­bridge: Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity Press. *What a

The copycat syndrome: Plagiarists at work

On the “JISC Plagiarism”:http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/ mail­ing list, I came across an “inter­est­ing article”:http://www.slate.com/id/2157435/ at “Slate.Com”:http://www.slate.com/ by Meghan O’Rourke. Not wish­ing to step on any­ones’ copy­right, I haven’t repro­duced the art­icle here; rather here is a quote from the open­ing of the art­icle to get you inter­ested enough to visit Slate. bq. We may know por­no­graphy when

Sunday squash

For sev­eral years I’ve played a freindly game of squash with my brother every week­end. His chil­dren (Mac, Oscar, and Stevie) come along and play too (to a greater or smal­ler extent based on thier ages). This week, for a change, I had a game with Lin­coln Kyne. He is one of the MBA stu­dents.

Approaches to research

It occurs to me that that in any research there are three ele­ments to the pro­cess, namely: * The ques­tion * The data * The answer Any one of these ele­ments can be used to drive the research pro­cess. Of course all three ele­ments have to be present in any suc­cess­ful research pro­ject. But, one