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Student evaluations of college professors are biased and worthless.
Student evaluations of college professors are biased and worthless. via Rebecca Schuman, Slate.
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My thesis on vague language (VL) is almost finished!
After many months of work, I am going to send the penultimate draft of my master’s thesis to my thesis committee. I will await their feedback, make changes, and hope to defend before the end of February.
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Looking forward to meeting people at my poster session at CIT
I recorded this video as a response to a researcher and interpreter trainer I met at the last Conference of Interpreter Trainers, but I’m posting it here because it applies to anyone who attends the conference next week in Charlotte, NC. I welcome everyone to come by my poster, ask me anything, challenge my research, […]
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Interpreting teams being blunt with each other for the sake of consumers
They did not seem to find a need to soften the statements with qualifiers or with the use of questions. As indicated earlier, this may be due to their comfort level with each other. –Shaw, 1995 p. 265 I read the above statement in an article by Risa Shaw called “A conversation: Written feedback while team […]
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Re: Interpreters receiving feedback even when it’s mean or vague
A video response to Mikey Krajnak’s video about ways that interpreters accept and deal with feedback. I relate my experience in the MA in Interpreting Studies program at WOU and what I’m learning about effective and nonjudgmental ways interpreters can give each other feedback, including Demand-Control Schema, Observation-Supervision, and Case Conferencing. I also ask Mikey […]
Daniel Greene 