The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, March 27, 1979-Page 5
Researchers need reada
By BETH ROSENBERG
* Researchers often have difficulties
writing for popular publications
because they are accustomed . to
producing for their colleagues, accor-
ding to Dan Goleman, associate editor
of Psychology Today.
Speaking to a group of. 50 people
yesterday at the Institute for Social
Research, Goleman said writing for a
highly intellectual audience leads
researchers to develop writing styles
which are all but incomprehensible to
the average reader.
"THEY ARE taught to write in
"Latinate, passive voice where nothing
is said and you have to read between
the lines to get the point," explained
Goleman, who has a PhD. in
Psychology from Harvard University.
Social scientists, he said, get career
points for publishing in journals which
have only highly-informed readers.
Goleman blamed the academic process
for keeping researchers from knowing
what to do with their knowledge.
"A subtle and not-so-subtle peer
pressure exists.- You can let a small
number of colleagues know about your
work, or get it published in Redbook
and let seven million people know," ex-
plained Goleman, whose parents were
professors.
PROFESSIONALS need to learn how
to write, for lay people and each other,
Goleman said, and to learn the un-
spoken ropes of the trade.
He explained that researchers
seldom are informed about how to take
job interviews, where and how to
publish, and how to survive at a univer-
sity.
A first publication, according to
Goleman, is a paradoxical Catch-22.
"They ask what you have published.
before, so don't have unrealistic expec-
tations.
"The first anything published is good
to get a foot in the door. Establishing
credibility in the publishing community
is important in the long run."
Psychology Today turns down 98 to 99
per cent of the story ideas submitted, he
said because of limited space and the
ble style
fact that most academics do not know
how to write, for publications.
His advice is not to write anything
before talking to a publisher, who will
have a conception of the consumer
market.
"Think Anglo-saxon and simplify
vocabulary," Goleman suggested.
"You might also send a pre-print or
reprint."
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By JULIE ENGEBRECHT
On a cold March night in 1965, the
areas surrounding the fishbowl became
the site for the nation's first teach-in on
Vietnam. Much of the most intense
political discussion which took place
that night happened just down the hall,
in 429 Mason Hall.
Alan Haber, one of the founders of the
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS), remembers that first teach-in,
and last Saturday night, he led another
teach-in on world politics in that same
Mason Hall classroom.
THAT FIRST teach-in was an ex-
periment, according to Haber, and last
week's was too.
The first teach-in changed the mood
of the country overnight, with national
attention focused on the University,
where students had discovered a dif-
ferent way of protesting the war. Calls
and letters flooded the University, and
teach-ins cropped up on campuses
across the country.
Attending Saturday night's teach-in
were students, faculty, community
members, and others from outside the
community who were simply in-
terested. About 75 people had gathered
at one point during the evening, but the
number fluctuated throughout, dwin-
ding to about 10 by 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
HABER TOLD the group he would
compile the ideas and questions
brought up during the teach-in and
distribute them to his network of ac-
tivists, so that people beyond those who
attended Saturday night would be
reached by the teach-in.
Haber was not the only one present
who attended that March 24, 1965 hap-
pening. Philosophy professor Frithjof
Bergmann, a faculty coordinator of the
first teach-in, spoke again Saturday,
espousing his 'radical vision' to a small
informal group.
After two films and several short
presentations by local activists, a
They said
tuberculosis
was hopeless.
They said
polio
was hopeless.
They said
smallpox
was hopeless.
Cancer
is only
a disease.
Even when most
people considered the
struggle against polio
hopeless, the people
who worked in
medical research
believed they would
someday find the
answer.
The same was true
for tuberculosis. And
for smallpox. The
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now.
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we hear from people
doing medical research
in laboratories all over
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they all think they're
on the right track.
And that the work
they're doing will
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lead to a solution for
cancer. And you know
what?
At least one of them
is right. But which
one? We must support
them all.
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discussion was to center around the
common concerns of the people, and to
identify the "next step" towards a new
social order.
PARTICIPANTS listened to a "Viet-
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