tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post313785706193089941..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: At the Chronicle: Confessions of a Journal Editorundinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-28532832519341410972007-10-01T18:35:00.000-07:002007-10-01T18:35:00.000-07:00I was "brought up" the same way in grad school, ad...I was "brought up" the same way in grad school, adm, but professor zero makes a good point about what that phrase could mean. I wonder too, adjunct whore, if as you say the phrase doesn't serve as a valuable kind of transition for the final or next-to-final copy.undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-31852397268205593152007-09-29T19:40:00.000-07:002007-09-29T19:40:00.000-07:00There's no problem with announcing a thesis, if on...There's no problem with announcing a thesis, if one must, but I get the point of announcing without the squishiness of "would like." It's less direct and really, incorrect, if one is actually arguing something. Me, I try to avoid announcing if I can, because I was brought up to believe that it was inelegant and that we should be able to state a clear thesis without announcing. But I agree it's sometimes very useful ;-)Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-58278090881738388402007-09-27T07:59:00.000-07:002007-09-27T07:59:00.000-07:00thanks for posting on this...always good to hear a...thanks for posting on this...always good to hear an editor's thoughts. i just starting "i would like to argue" because my argument was too buried or not clear enough. it forced me to be concise and upfront about it. but it is an inelegant phrase, no doubt.gwoertendykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00542058287462910446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-34348665042706544582007-09-25T18:02:00.000-07:002007-09-25T18:02:00.000-07:00I know "I would like to argue" is clunky but I lik...I know "I would like to argue" is clunky but I like it, because as you say it does announce "here comes my thesis" and also because it admits to the subjectivity that does come into interpretation - i.e. it doesn't make fake claims to the inevitability of the argument.<BR/><BR/>I caught the "I would like to argue" virus from a very smart professor who would say it in class. "We can read this text this way, and that way, and several other ways, but I want to argue that the more interesting / most productive / etc. way of reading it is my latest one. Now I will show you why."<BR/><BR/>There are of course more elegant ways of phrasing it.Professor Zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909063513731044826noreply@blogger.com