Sarah Kanning

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juice plug-in for Firefox (a momentary geek-out)

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Please allow me to wax geeky for just a moment about a tool I think writers may find extremely useful.
Juice, a new plug-in for Firefox from Linkool Labs, puts a sidebar on your browser. Highlight any bit of text, drag-and-drop it on the sidebar, and a tabbed Google search (for web, images, news, videos, and [...]

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Tags: research

uneven

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Drat! I was all ready to sing the praises of The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series as a useful tool for writers, having read the volume on life in Chaucer’s England by Forgeng and McLean (quite readable but detailed), but the books on Elizabethan England and the Vikings (yes, that’s two separate books) don’t [...]

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Tags: book review · research

When more submissions equals less progress

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Just read an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education which was about librarianship and jobs in libraries, but it contained this paragraph:
I know of one job seeker who has a Ph.D. in English, publications including a scholarly monograph, many years of college teaching experience, a recent MLIS, and substantial preprofessional library experience. She sent [...]

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Tags: research · sending out your work · submission