Editor's Note, December 2006

Elizabeth Haller
PhD Student and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com

Happy Holidays!  May all your holiday wishes bring you great joy.  As always, enjoy this issue’s submissions and, as you do, consider offering us a piece of your work for publication.  We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE.  Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements.  If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith.  As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.

Columnist Lynne Fukuda returns with an article titled “A Homelessness Cat Finding a Home: Love Makes the Difference.”  Fukuda provides the following synopsis for her column:

            Christmas or the winter holidays is a time for all of us to remember to be thankful for our             gifts in life.  It is in remembering those who have given us knowledge or experience that             we are given true gifts.  When we open our hearts to those who are less fortunate, we are             able to see that we too have places that are lacking and need some TLC.  Life is a journey             that is shared and I hope that we all have a chance to share it with a loved one, whether it             be a human or a non-human creature. Happy Holidays!

Columnist Susan Jones provides a wonderful instance of Christmas giving in her column titled, “The Christmas Magic of a Pedometer”.

Dan Lukiv again starts off AEE’s feature articles with “Chapter Eight” in his twelve chapter Haiku series.  As stated previously, familiarize yourself with this series by referring to the March 2006 issue for both the “Introduction” and the “Forward” to this collection as well as the April 2006 through November 2006 issues for chapters one through seven.

The second and final feature of this issue, “Bibliographic Errors in Articles Submitted to Scholarly Journals: The Case for Research in the Schools”, is co-authored by Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Vicki L. Waytowich and Qun G. Jiao. The authors state that:
            “Studies of errors in bibliographic citations have tended to focus on published articles.             However, little is known about the bibliographic error rates of articles before they become             published. To date, no study has examined bibliographic errors in manuscripts submitted             to a journal for publication. This was the purpose of the present investigation. Specifically,             52 articles submitted over a two-year period to Research in the Schools, a nationally and             internationally refereed journal, were investigated. Findings revealed a mean number of             bibliographic errors of 5.87. The submitted articles containing more than three                         bibliographic errors were approximately four times more likely to be rejected than articles             containing less bibliographic errors.”
The implications of these findings are discussed in their article.

This month’s Poet’s Corner contributions come to us from Noel Sloboda.  Sloboda provides the following inspiration for “Nosebleed in the Milton Seminar: Memories of John Morris”:  “When I find myself irritated because there’s no chalk in my classroom or a student has fallen asleep, I think back to this class I had with John Morris, a wonderful teacher.  He was very ill when I had him for a graduate seminar on Milton, but as ‘Nosebleed’ suggests, he never let his discomfort--or anything else--distract him from the classroom.”  Inspiration for Sloboda’s poem, “Slow Learner”:  “I take my service, research, and teaching very seriously.  But I’ve found in academia it’s easy to take yourself too seriously and to think that you know more than you do.  Experiences with a dog trainer (and a dog) helped remind me of my limitations, and I drew upon them in composing ‘Slow Learner’.”

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