May I go on record as saying that it’s DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING to discover that a product you worked on in good faith turns out to cause more problems than it solves?
Thanks.
I’ve written on a variety of medical products, from a variety of perspectives — promotional, CME, brand strategy, medication adherence, publications… And really, each time [...]
Archive for March, 2009
March madness
Posted in Backstory, Musing about Teaching, cats, tactless observations, tagged assessment, cats with redeye, coaching, grok, Himmies, Judgement Day, Leia, multiple roles, Teaching on 23 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most of my Spring Break has been haunted by student papers. Or rather, the commenting and grading of student papers. I like to give constructive comments, but I also need to give clear indications of how far they’ve gotten towards adequacy at this point [and at this point, for most of them there is a [...]
Spring Festival of Bad Writing ‘09
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Musing about Teaching, tactless observations, tagged abuse of the passive voice, bad writing, hard to maneuver, intense, take this sentence out and shoot it, teaching hell on 20 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Happy Nowruz, Happy Spring, Happy Oestra!
Now would someone pass the mead over this way?
In writing about any topic it is essential to have the ability to recognize the differences among audiences and strategize the writing to meet those differences.
Initially, looking at the [item] one notices the journal is long in length.
The general public is always [...]
People who need people
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s difficult to explain to some of my students the importance of having trustworthy people to disagree with in your life. They struggle with literature review assignments because they prefer to have everything “fit together” rather than consider conflicting data, or they decide instead that one bit of conflicting data should outweigh all the other [...]
Insufficient data
Posted in Musing about Teaching, tactless observations on 17 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you want us to show specific studies that back up our information, or is that too narrow? Thanks
Um, short answer, “yes”, but I’m not exactly sure you know what you’re talking about. How about delineating what this information you have is, and then I can let you know what the next steps might be?
We’ve [...]
A sentence sits on a marble pedestal among the lonely manequins
Posted in Backstory, tactless observations, tagged factory outlets, performance art, The old Garment District on 12 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For years, decadent consumer spending and free-flowing credit meant no luxury chain had to justify why a sweater cost more than a flight to Rome.
NY Times article link
I grew up during a previous economic malaise, and my parents saw the Depression. When I was in middle school, shopping for school or social event clothes meant [...]
Pretties from the Craft show
Posted in Art and Craft on 4 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I thought about titling this post something about “high craft” and then decided I’d be attracting Wiccans or stoners….not that I mind new readers, but why confuse people further?
We were at the American Craft Council show this weekend, and here are some of the artists we liked best:
Glass — Lisa Tate’s combination of color and [...]
I’ll drink to that
Posted in tactless observations on 2 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m interested in knowing what other careful readers think of this analysis — Sandy, over at Junkfood Science, takes a closer look at the recent claims that a long-term study “showed” that even one drink of alcohol per week could raise a woman’s cancer risk. That claim didn’t fit with the other data I knew [...]
