It's the final weekend of my fall semester; I'm down to tackling that never-ending paper about non-immigrant temporary guest-workers.[FN1]
As I've started to collect my citations, I've noticed that all my examples from the popular press come from the The New York Times. This alarms me for two reasons:
1. I complained earlier about less-than-rigorous scholarship in the literature. When I cite only to one newspaper in a forty-five page essay, I contribute to that less-than-rigorous scholarship. (Though I have plenty, plenty of other sources - triple-digit footnotes, here I come.)
2. I really am as bourgeois as I look. Bad.
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FN1. Note the maximization of character count. "Non-immigrant" instead of "nonimmigrant." "Guest-workers" instead of "guestworkers."
Friday, December 14, 2007
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