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." AN EXCEPTIONAL COURSE FALL TERM "PROGRESS OR DECAY? DEVELOPMENTS OF THE MODERN WORLD" Prof. John Broomfield A history course to explain the conflicts and crises of the present. Cross-cultural; comparative; thematic Did you ever expect to find together in one course: Karl Marx, Dean Billy Frye, Queen Victoria, the Anarchists, Ayatollah Khomeini, Charles Darwin, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Chairman Mao, E. F. Schu- macher, Bella Abzug, and many, many more? IMPERIALISM, NATIONALISM, BUREAUCRACY, THE MILITARY Why not try it? Two course numbers for your choice: History 180 (available also Summer Term lilA), and History 350. SCO has the dope. Be a Part of the Big 'U'- Join The Daily! What's N SDS founder holds teach-in at 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 same is true for cancer now. We know because we hear from people doing medical research in laboratories all over the country. They talk to us because they all need support. They are all excited because they all think they're on the right track. And that the work they're doing will unlock a secret and 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. 'U, 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- See SDS, Page 12 WHOWAS ZOlIRO? 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