DIGIRENT - Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship
Lindsay Waters
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Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Lindsay Waters epub Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Lindsay Waters pdf download Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Lindsay Waters pdf file Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Lindsay Waters audiobook Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Lindsay Waters book review Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Lindsay Waters summary | #2030309 in Books | Prickly Paradigm Press | 2004-05-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.00 x.10 x4.50l,.19 | File type: PDF | 104 pages | ||5 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Good critique of academic culture|By Khatarnaak Khatun|A publisher at Harvard University Press, Waters is the right person to offer this critique. He ruthlesly criticizes the coroporate, quantifying mentality that has crept into academics, destroying the authority and prestige of scholarly book publishing.
The last chapter is the best to read. There are nice quotes||
"Eye-opening, deeply troubling, eloquent, and compelling."
Why should books drive the academic hierarchy? This controversial question posed by Lindsay Waters ignited fierce debate in the academy and its presses, as he warned that the "publish or perish" dictum was breaking down the academic system in the United States. Waters hones his argument in this pamphlet with a new set of questions that challenge the previously unassailable link between publishing and tenure.
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