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	<title>Nothing has ever looked so wrong</title>
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	<description>Notes from the Tree House</description>
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		<title>Teaching Statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is another post in a series on job-market related things. Previous entries can be found here.)
Teaching statements are kind of easy, but they&#8217;re hard to feel good about. Mostly, that&#8217;s because they&#8217;re about how to be a good teacher, or perhaps more specifically, about why you are a good teacher. And explaining what makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s turn to dissertation abstracts. (This is another post in a series on job-market related things. Previous entries can be found here.)
The dissertation abstract that you produce as part of your job market dossier gives a brief overview of your dissertation, much like an abstract of an article gives a brief overview of the article. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I love you very much.&#8221;

&#8220;Why do you love me?&#8221;


&#8220;Because you&#8217;re excellent, sweet, and really wonderful.&#8221;


&#8220;No, because I&#8217;m me!&#8221;
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		<title>DFW</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never read any of the huge books that David Foster Wallace. It seemed like a project on a par with life projects&#8212;kottke.org has this list of resources for reading Infinite Jest. I am still really sad that he passed. If you want to get a sense of what really good writing is, in any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insensitive Semantics, Chp. 6</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back! Time to report on our most recent meeting of our reading group, this one concerned with chapter 6. I presented, and my handout is available here. 

Chapter 6 is concerned with arguments that have become known as binding arguments. The purpose of a binding argument is to show that a sentence (the &#8220;target [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Book Changed My Life</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up playing basketball. I played until Zoe was born, and then several things happened that made me stop. For one, I usually played after work, but that has become prime family time. For another, I blew out my knee. I finally got my knee fixed, though that didn&#8217;t do anything to remove the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Market Writing Samples, Part II</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=18</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked about some aspects of writing a job market writing sample here. In that post, I emphasized the ways in which a writing sample is different from a paper aimed at publication. Today, I want to talk about one of the points of correspondence between them.

One of the tasks the writing sample is supposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insensitive Semantics, chapter 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s discussion was led by Brian Hedden, an MIT grad student. His handout is available here, and it covers chapter 5 of the book. Structurally, the chapter runs parallel to the discussion in chapter 3, though content-wise, it raises somewhat different issues.
In the beginning of the books, C&#038;L suggest that there are really only two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Market Writing Samples</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=12</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the season for students entering the job market to put the final touches on their writing sample. Hopefully by now, most of the arguments are in place. In fact, for people who write a dissertation that is a single, sustained piece of argument, rather than  an n-paper option as I did, there&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insensitive Semantics, Chapters 3 and 4</title>
		<link>http://bernhardnickel.net/banal/?p=13</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernhard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Marie Guillot (who&#8217;s visiting MIT this year) led our discussion today. Here is the handout she made. In many ways, chapter 3 is a crucial chapter in the book, because it&#8217;s supposed to establish the following conditional.  In the post on the first couple of chapters, I talked about the two kinds of philosophers [...]]]></description>
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