- Office Hours: Sundays from 6-7pm Pacific
- I’m available to answer phone calls and email from students anytime. I simply set regular office hours because some students worry about interrupting my other work. I love talking with students and am happy to talk with you anytime.
- Supplemental readings
- There are a handful of articles and books I recommend frequently, so I’ve gathered them in a list for further reading.
- Questions?
As mentioned in my introductory letter, please contact me any time with questions, comments, or concerns. I reserve one hour a week for nothing but Grad School work, so if you contact me during that office hour, you’re most certain to reach me. Feel free to call or e-mail me at other times, too, and if I’m not available we can arrange another time to talk. (If you send me e-mail and I don’t reply within a couple of days, please call me. Once in a while legitimate e-mail messages get intercepted by my ISP’s spam filter.)- For speedy feedback and networking with other students, I highly recommend that you subscribe and post questions to:
- USDA-indexw – a discussion list for GS students assigned to me. This list includes discussions about indexing, about this particular course, notifications about any slow-downs that might happen on my end (such as vacations), etc.
- IndexStudents – my favorite indexing discussion list! It’s geared toward students of all indexing courses. Here you’ll fin find guidance, hints, encouragement, and support from others learning indexing, instructors of several courses, and professional indexers who like fielding questions from new and potential indexers.
- Indexersdiscussionlist – my second favorite online gathering place for indexing discussions.
- INDEX-L – the original discussion list for indexers around the globe.
- See also FAQ about me as an instructor
- Myths About the Graduate School (GS) Indexing Courses
- There has been much misinformation about the GS (formerly under the USDA) indexing courses disseminated over the years. The instructors have put together a factsheet to dispel some of these myths.
- Contacting the GS
- Students of the GS course can contact the Graduate School for administrative-type information (like getting extensions, checking records of lessons received, etc) or other general course information.
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