OK, Jeff, this is beginning to annoy me. Along with the good stuff, I
read the most god-awful peer-reviewed stuff all the time, in several
fields, things that wouldn't have passed muster in my English comp
courses. I also review academic publications, although I'm not an
academic. I'm not alone. I occasionally edit friends' dissertations
when they want to turn them into books. Some are great, some are
semiliterate and not long on rationality, but both kinds earn
doctorates. I appreciate that you're proud and protective of your
newfound status, but don't make too much of it.
At 08:07 PM 10/22/2009, you wrote:
>Elizabeth, you should not blame yourself for allowing us this
>information. It does, though, reveal something of the attitude of Robert
>and Scott if they want you a non-academic (no fault in that) to peer-
>review academic articles. It doesn't seem all that professional to me.
>No doubt, the rest of the board who are academics will most certainly
>have been asked by Robert and Scott to peer-review also.
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:27:58 +0100, Elizabeth James
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Hello. I may indeed have got this all wrong. I only know that I was
>asked if
> >I would be willing occasionally to read submissions. I have no idea
>about
> >the role of the other people on the ed. board, nor whether people not
>listed
> >there have done or will read for the journal.
> >
> >I obviously don't fully understand academic instruments. By and large
>in
> >life I am not too keen on secrecy. Anyway I apologise to everyone,
> >especially Robert & Scott, if they read this, for speaking out of turn.
> >
> >Elizabeth
> >
> >
> >>As I said before, I'm only going by what Elizabeth James has said
>about
> >the editorial board doing the reviewing themselves. Maybe, she's got it
> >wrong, and they won't be. We just don't know at this stage.
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
Forthcoming in November 2009.
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
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