I’ve written a short piece in The Conversation on the UK’s aims of joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Author: Michael Plouffe
Classes
I’ve started fielding a few questions relating to module selection and content for the coming year, as the UCL module catalogue entries appear to answer as many questions as they raise. I’ll try to provide some additional description here; refer to the module catalogue for definitive information.(1) All questions relating to the enrolment process should…
Journals for international political economy, 2020 edition
IPE Journals, 2020 (.csv) This is a bit late this year, with both extended thesis supervision duties and the switch to preparing for online teaching delivery this coming year the main culprits. As with previous versions, the core data here are pulled from Scimago. What’s changed? I’ve dropped Clarivate/Thomson-Reuters/JCR/whatever-they’re-called-now impact factors, as their closed nature…
Quoting versus paraphrasing
When dealing with sources in the body text of a paper, writers frequently face the choice between paraphrasing or quoting the source. In student writing, mistakes in either can lead to reduced marks or plagiarism procedures. Having seen far too many problems with this recently, I provide a brief overview of both here. This is…
Writing for university
This is targeted to university students, primarily at students in the BA/BSc and MA/MSc/MPA classes that I most frequently instruct, although the points are relevant beyond those levels and my classes. Most of the poor written-assessment outcomes I see appear to stem more from carelessness than a lack of intellect. The prompt and assessment format…
Respectability Politics and Asian America
I originally submitted this on 7th April to The Atlantic, and got sick of waiting for their promised response. I pitched to a couple of other outlets, and email conversations dwindled to nothing. So here it is, three weeks later. The spread of COVID-19 has reignited anti-Asian bigotry in the United States, particularly following…