Editor's Note, September 2007
Editor's Note, October 2007
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
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 the fifth in a series of articles on her life lessons in travel. The current installment is titled: “Life Lessons in Traveling Part 5: What I Learned in America.” If you haven’t already done so, please read the introduction to this series (“Life Lessons in Air-Travel: What I Learned”) in the May 2007 issue of Academic Exchange Extra (AEE) and the subsequent installments through the September 2007 issue.
Dan Lukiv starts off AEE’s feature articles with the second installment of his children’s novel titled “Quibils and Quirks”. The original text of this work was serialized in The Cariboo Observer during 1997 through 1999. According to Lukiv, this project, consisting of 108 short chapters, is designed for serialization and works perfectly for teachers who like reading to their students daily. As such, we will be running this novel with eleven chapters per issue through the May 2008 issue of AEE. Please refer to the August 2007 issue to read the “Forward” to this inventive work.
The final feature of this issue, “Qualitative Research: A Framework to Enhance Understanding”, comes to us from Nancy L. Leech and Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie. According to the authors: “Ambiguity around the definition and meaning of qualitative research is problematic; how does one teach a ‘qualitative research’ course when people in the field cannot agree on a single definition? Thus, the purpose of this article is to discuss existing definitions of qualitative research, to describe a framework to explain the ambiguity of the definition of what qualitative research is, and to describe where to go from here in a basic qualitative research course.”
Vanessa Raney returns with this month’s Poet’s Corner contribution with her poem titled “Foils Among the Spoils”. She provides the following inspiration for her image-word poem: “I think all of us share the same aspirations, however manifested. Yet we continue to fight against each other, though most of us have family/friends. Ironically, those with the least to lose (money, access, power) often corrupt those who have less by creating the fixation that killing for the state justifies the cost of any one human life.”
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