Terminology Established

zorro (3) · Post by **zorro (3)** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:39 pm

So as a result of learning the things we learn on a Masters, how many of you are putting the expertise into practice? In other words, do your current jobs allow you to make use of your Masters knowledge?

Is this forum a place to let out pent up frustrations of brimming linguistics knowledge, because in your jobs there is no place for its application?

What are your jobs incidentally?
I'm doing my Masters, but I do work in Tesco on the side.

And how about your aspirations?
I'm thinking about the possibility of a life in academia (as long as I can get a Distinction). Failing this I hope to teach English in Universities abroad, and then to return to England for a lucrative job of some sort where I can use my experience and expertise.

zorro (3) · Post by **zorro (3)** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:50 pm

Does nobody want to share?

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:29 pm

I do use the things I learned in my Masters constantly so am not frustrated. It does help though because we have a group of graduate students who meet at our local university every two weeks to talk about our current interests and how to apply theory in a practical way. I try to read a paper a day on Google Scholar in my field.

I currently teach first year Commerce students in Business Communication and am trying to include what I know in designing my lessons, in my feedback on their assignments, in future recommendations on how the course might be set up and in studying the student's writing using Systemic Functional Grammar to aid in this.

I would also love to teach at a University in Africa -I don't know that this would ever be lucrative in the monetary sense.