>
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> What if the journal is a journal of opinion and what if Professor
>> Hausfleish's reputation is built on opinion pieces?
>
> If the journal is a journal of opinion (which I am taking to mean not
> peer-reviewed), and Professor Hausfleish's work is based on such work,
> he will fail to get tenure at most Universities and quickly find
> himself out of a job, which generally brings to a close one's research
> career as well.
>
> Which is to say, largely a non-issue. I mean, we should not deal
> heavily in un-peer reviewed work from scholars who have not built a
> reputation for peer-reviewed work. That's true.
>
> But that is not, generally speaking, the bulk of what we'd be looking
> at if we were looking at journal articles.
>
> However peer reviewed work is, by its nature, not simply opinion.
>
> -Phil
>

No, I mean a journal of opinion which IS peer reviewed, and an authority
whose literary criticism has passed such review. In other words,
considered sound, or at least interesting, by a committee.

Fred



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