For the past couple of weeks I have been feeling occasionally distressed that I had not yet announced the theme of the annual Academic Writing Contest, and then I noticed the date on last year's announcement -- December 22. So now I feel better, though only if I don't think too much about what that means about the past two years.
A summary of the themes of the last six (6) contests:
The rules are simple:
- Write a brief rejection letter that exemplifies whatever interests you most about this type of communication -- how awful they can be, how insincere, how kind, how bizarre, how cryptic, or whatever.
- Entries can be made up or can be (anonymized) real ones that are somehow noteworthy for their awfulness, awesomeness, bizarreness etc.
- Email entries to femalescienceprofessor@gmail.com, and as usual I will arbitrarily post some or all of them whilst the FSP family makes its annual expedition to somewhere interesting.
A summary of the themes of the last six (6) contests:
- 2008: The Statement of Purpose;
- 2009: Letters of Reference;
- 2010: Why I Missed the Final Exam;
- 2011: The Cover Letter for academic positions;
- 2012: The CV
- 2013: The Review (of a paper or proposal)
The rules are simple:
- Write a brief rejection letter that exemplifies whatever interests you most about this type of communication -- how awful they can be, how insincere, how kind, how bizarre, how cryptic, or whatever.
- Entries can be made up or can be (anonymized) real ones that are somehow noteworthy for their awfulness, awesomeness, bizarreness etc.
- Email entries to femalescienceprofessor@gmail.com, and as usual I will arbitrarily post some or all of them whilst the FSP family makes its annual expedition to somewhere interesting.
3 comments:
Merry Christmas, FSP!
Good to see a post today, and I am looking forward to the results of the competition.
This is not quite a rejection letter, so I won't enter it into the contest. But a student tried to reject my rejection email (not in the funny way that I've seen on the Internet, but just replying again with yet another a request to be admitted).
I wrote: "The email you just sent me shows no evidence that you read any of the words that I wrote."
All entries must be 140 characters or less
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