19.839, Challenging: Work at LINGUIST

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LINGUIST List: Vol-19-839. Thu Mar 13 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.839, Challenging: Work at LINGUIST

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Date: 13-Mar-2008
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Message from Fund Drive Co-ordinator 

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Date: 13-Mar-2008
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Free Journal Articles at Cambridge Extra

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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:46:34
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Message from Fund Drive Co-ordinator
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Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

I have been part of LINGUIST List for the past four years. I started working at 
LINGUIST when I was finishing up my undergraduate studies at EMU. I was offered 
a Graduate Assistantship at LINGUIST to continue on to a Masters in Linguistics 
at Eastern, and as you would imagine, I took the opportunity. I was not only 
thrilled about the possibility of going through an MA without having to pay the 
increasingly high tuition costs for an international student, but also about the 
challenges and incredible learning experience that it is to be a GA at LINGUIST. 

During my two years as a GA, I was an editor for the publications team, Publications 
Manager, and team leader for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad 
site development in 2007. I also learned a lot of computer programming to allow 
me to develop the Cambridge Extra Magazine site, in association with Cambridge 
University Press, that was first launched in September 2007.

I have the honor of being able to stay working for LINGUIST as the Assistant Project 
Manager, which is enabling me to continue learning about the field. I first joined 
The LINGUIST List with just enough computer skills to get by and do basic things 
for school and leisure. Now, because of my work here at LINGUIST, I actually have 
some idea of what XML, ColdFusion, programming, SQL and database structure are.  
Although I'm still always learning, I am faced each day with the challenging and 
exciting work necessary to make LINGUIST work for everyone and make it possible 
for other linguists around the world to keep updated on what is happening in the 
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and Review system that we hope we will be offer to conference organizers soon. 
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This year I am also in charge of Fund Drive and what it entails for the development 
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:46:37
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Free Journal Articles at Cambridge Extra
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Dear subscribers,

This past year has been an exciting one for our publications area. For a while 
LINGUIST and Cambridge University Press had been developing an online magazine 
with the main purpose of allowing our readership access to full articles for free. 
The result of these efforts was the launch of Cambridge Extra Magazine 
(http://linguistlist.org/cambridgeextra/). Cambridge Extra is an online magazine 
that features 4 issues a year. The first issue was launched in late September 2007 
and the new one will be available very soon! 

There is a short registration to allow you to have access to the site. However, 
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site. You can read 4-5 articles that are fully available to anyone who comes to 
the site. There is a competitions area where you can answer questions to get prizes 
from Cambridge University Press. There is also an area for News that brings up 
information on new things that CUP is developing in the field of linguistics. In 
the Special Offers area you can get good discounts on CUP titles! 

Cambridge Extra has been developed to be a useful site to the linguistics audience. 
There is a special area called "Have your Say" that is dedicated to Cambridge Extra 
users to be able to send comments, suggestions, improvements and any type of ideas 
about Cambridge Extra. We want to know what users find useful and interesting in 
order to make the magazine better. We also love receiving suggestions on any aspects 
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Cambridge Extra has been a big success so far with over 2,000 users since it was 
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We look forward to hearing what you think of the site and getting any comments 
and/or suggestions!

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