Paper Chase Research Articles

The Paper Chase: A Team Science Training Exercise.

Over the past few decades of psychological research, there has been an important increase in both the application of multidisciplinary or collaborative science and in training and research that emphasizes social justice and cultural humility. In the current paper, we report on the use of the "Paper Chase" as a team science training and research experience that also facilitates cultural humility in research and when working in teams. The Paper Chase is a synchronous writing exercise originally conceptualized by a cohort of health service psychology interns to reduce lag time between manuscript writing and submission (Schaumberg et al., 2015). The Paper Chase involves a group of trainees coming together for a predetermined amount of time (e.g., 9 or more hours) with the aim of writing and submitting a full manuscript for publication. In the current paper, we extend a previous report on the Paper Chase by formally linking the training experience to the four phases of team science: development, conceptualization, implementation, and translation. We also discuss ways in which the Paper Chase as a training experience can promote cultural humility. Finally, we provide updated recommendations for successfully completing a Paper Chase project. Overall, the authors of this manuscript who were predoctoral psychology interns across two recent cohorts at one academic medical center reported positive experiences from the Paper Chase. In addition, the current study suggests the Paper Chase can be used as one activity that facilitates critical training in team science.

Secret Law

About 20 years ago, I was sitting at my desk in 36 Whitehall—the ancestral home of Parliamentary Counsel for many years—enjoying the calm after the storm a day or two following Royal Assent on a complicated and contentious Bill about immigration, when the telephone rang and the cheery voice of my favourite instructing solicitor from the Home Office said: Hello Daniel, this is [], can you tell me what section number clause X will be when the Act is published? The Bill had undergone complicated surgery by way of amendments in both Houses, right up to the to and fro stage, so the clause numberings had changed considerably and although I could work it out by running a paper chase of the different layers of amendments, I was not particularly anxious to do that unless there was a good reason. So I asked why she wanted to know. ‘Well’, she explained, ‘I’m standing in Belmarsh Prison arresting someone and I’d quite like to tell him the section number I’m relying on...’

“If we can do it, anyone can!”: Evaluating a virtual “Paper Chase” collaborative writing model for rapid research dissemination

The Paper Chase model is a synchronous collaborative approach to manuscript development. Through a structured and team-based design, authors participate in a “marathon” of writing, editing, revising, and submitting their publications within a specified period. This active-learning approach is considered a high-impact practice by engaging students in research dissemination through a collaborative project. This study sought to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual Paper Chase exercise. We conducted the Paper Chase with six teams led by multidisciplinary faculty (with 24 undergraduate students and four graduate students). All participants were given pre-and post-surveys, with both open- and closed-ended questions. Results indicated that the process increased cooperative and problem-solving components of group work attitudes, increased participants’ confidence in writing skills, increased understanding of research processes and that participants appreciated putting their skills immediately into practice. Participants identified strengths as well as opportunities for improvement in online modules and facilitation. The process was effective in that half of the manuscripts were submitted to peer-reviewed outlets within 90 days of the event. The positive evidence for learning in the virtual Paper Chase model supports future applications and may strengthen the involvement of students in research dissemination. Additional research may expand upon the findings by assessing group work dynamics, quality of final products, and conducting the process in a hybrid model.

The Paper Chase Case and Epistemic Accounts of Request Normativity

According to the epistemic account of request normativity, a request gives us reasons by revealing normatively relevant information. The information is normative, not the request itself. I raise a new objection to the epistemic account based on situations where we might try to avoid someone requesting something of us. The best explanation of these situations seems to be that we do not want to acquire a new reason to do something. For example, if you know I am going to ask you to read a draft of my paper, you might avoid running into me so as to avoid acquiring a reason to read a draft of my paper. I then argue that the epistemic account can successfully reply to this objection and that in fact the epistemic account does a better job of accounting for cases like this than competing views of the normativity of requests.

The paper chase and the big data arms race

The paper chase and the big data arms race

Le masque mortuaire de Dante, ou un jeu de piste intermédial dans Inferno de Dan Brown

This article aims to show how Dan Brown's thriller Inferno incorporates elements from the Divina Commedia and re-elaborates both the historical and literary figure of Dante. At the center of this investigation, largely designed as a close reading, is the intermedial dimension of the paper chase that drives the novel’s plot. In a race against time to dismantle a biological weapon that threatens humanity, art history professor Robert Langdon comes across a series of complex objects and artifacts. Their complexity is both technical and semiotic, since they modify or combine existing media in a number of original ways, thus activating an intricate web of intermedia references. By analysing the intermedial structure of these objects, I propose to contribute to the description of the dense intertextual and intermedial network that structures the novel.

The Great (Toilet) Paper Chase: Our Study of the 1979 San Francisco Bay Sewage Spill (As Motivated by Walter Cronkite and the CBS Evening News)

AbstractEarth system science is boundless. There are no limits to the kinds of questions, problems, mysteries, or paradoxes that motivate our research and shape its direction. So how do we decide which directions to take, which questions to answer, what problems to solve? Sometimes our research is motivated by an unanticipated event requiring a degree of stochastic interpretive crystal ball gazing. Last year we ended our careers of more than four decades as life scientists at the USGS in Menlo Park, CA. We find ourselves in a state of reflection and want to share a story about a stochastic event that brought us together as collaborators, taught us essential lessons of life as research scientists, and seeded a friendship that endures.

Chasing The Paper Chase

ABSTRACTIn this essay, the author explores what educationalists can learn from studying The Paper Chase. The rise and decline of the Socratic method and the importance of the hidden curriculum are highlighted.

Reflections on Teaching the First Day of Contracts Class

A veteran of the law school classroom offers his thoughts on why Contracts is the most significant course in the first-year curriculum, why the study of contract law should begin with the subject of remedies, and why the “hairy hand” case of The Paper Chase fame makes an ideal starting point. The author also shares his first-day advice on how to succeed in law school. Along the way he explains why he prefers a problems-based casebook, opposes use of commercial briefs and outlines, and makes robust use of a course website.

Reflections on Teaching the First Day of Contracts Class

ABSTRACT A veteran of the law school classroom offers his thoughts on why Contracts is the most significant course in the first-year curriculum, why the study of contract law should begin with the subject of remedies, and why the “hairy hand” case of The Paper Chase fame makes an ideal starting point. The author also shares his first-day advice on how to succeed in law school. Along the way he explains why he prefers a problems-based casebook, opposes use of commercial briefs and outlines, and makes robust use of a course website.

A Modest Proposal for Expediting Manuscript Selection at Less Prestigious Law Reviews

The matching market in unsolicited manuscripts, submitted to general law reviews, suffers from far too much wasted student effort. This is especially so among the less prestigious law review staffs, which scramble to read submissions they cannot land in the misguided belief they owe authors serious scholarly engagement with the drafts they submit. If they set aside this quaintly artisanal view — an apparent relic of the “Paper Chase” era that ill suits the age of ExpressO and Scholastica — students can process manuscripts far more efficiently. They need only update their manuscript-review systems according to the same market imperatives that drive the professors who submit the manuscripts, thus putting their respective interests on the same self-directed footing. For less prestigious journals, key moves include short-fuse automated offers and targeted categorical rejections of requests for expedited review.

Let's Get Technical--The Paper Chase: How One Library Tackled the Chaos of Media Ordering

Let's Get Technical--The Paper Chase: How One Library Tackled the Chaos of Media Ordering

Paper chase: Overcoming Venezuela’s newsprint shortage

Paper chase: Overcoming Venezuela’s newsprint shortage

Robinson Reflections Part 3: Paper Chase — The Story of Mary Robinson’s Arranged Marriage

‘Paper Chase’ is the third of three complementary articles collected as ‘Robinson Reflections’. It further examines the reactions of the Robinson and Brontë families in the period following Branwell’s dismissal from Thorp Green Hall in July 1845. By linking the papermaking industry in Airedale to that in Derbyshire’s Derwent valley, the work provides evidence that the arrival in Keighley in late 1848 of the newly-married Mary Robinson/Clapham (daughter of Lydia Robinson) was not an accident of fate, but a deliberately planned arrangement driven by the business and political interests of her uncle, William Evans MP of Allestree Hall.

Publishing graduate student research in geography: the fundamentals

This paper offers practical advice on publishing graduate student research within the discipline of geography, addressing the following questions: why, when, where, what, how and with whom? Section ‘The paper chase’ delineates the importance of publishing, identifies potential material to publish, suggests venues in which to publish and offers pragmatic advice on how to negotiate the publishing process (with regard to peers, supervisors and editors). Section ‘In library resources’, discusses the effective use of library resources, demystifies the significance of impact factors and elucidates the history of Open Access publishing.

Crash Knowledge: Pretending to be a professor who fails

“Crash Knowledge: Pretending to be a professor who fails” attempts to diagram the performative matrix of teaching a university level large lecture and practice class on performance art history-as-performance art. The essay approaches the task by locating the core impulse of the gesture as foregrounding the “professor” as the Lacanian Master ‘who knows’ layered with a pop-culture re-performance of ‘Charles Kingsfield,’the cruel contract law professor from the film/TV show The Paper Chase from the early 1970's. The class and the essay are both reflective this recombinant theater of “crash knowledge” where the question of knowledge transference not only “fails” to occur, but also becomes the site for the critique of the post-contemporary triangulation of education as the “failure” of the Master ‘who knows’, the ‘discourse of the university’, and ‘discourse of the capitalist’. It is at this nexus of our current systemic “failure” that the tactic of pretence reaches a fever pitch of how and what “crash knowledge” is gained within the condition of having “failed” via the liminal condition of the hysteric formation of knowledge. By foregrounding and connecting Luce Irigaray's reading revolutionary potential of hysteria's performance art like trajectories of unknowing-knowing as the class's pedagogical potential. So buckle your sit belts it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Legal, Tender: The Deferred Romance of Pedagogical Relation in The Paper Chase

Films depicting educational relationships typically emphasize personal connections between students and teachers over the educational goals that such relations facilitate. In doing so, these films raise the question of how teachers stand in relation to their institutional roles in such a way as to inspire students’ desires for knowledge. In this paper, in order to examine the influence of institutional roles in defining teacher–student relationships, we analyze “The Paper Chase,” a film in which teacher and student have no personal connection but in which the drama of student desire is nonetheless clearly featured. Drawing from Plato’s erotics, in which the soul is shaped by desire for that which it lacks, and from Jacques Lacan’s theories of desire and transference, we argue that “The Paper Chase” portrays educational desire as rooted in the differential of authority between teacher and student.

THE PAPER CHASE

THE DECLINE of print newspapers and magazines is a source of concern for journalists, but it also has an impact on the worldwide paper market. After coming to depend on readers to dutifully recycle their old periodicals, paper manufacturers are now finding that supplies of high-quality paper for recycling are becoming scarce. Used white office paper is also getting increasingly hard to find—and much more costly—thanks to growth in electronic communications. High-quality white paper is desired as a raw material for new paper. It contains long cellulose fibers with intact cell walls that can be used to make high-margin products for printing, packaging, or household use. Seventh Generation, a marketer of green consumer products, is experiencing this paper chase firsthand. The Vermont-based company contracts with an outside paper mill to manufacture a line of 100% recycled paper products that appeals to eco-conscious consumers. “Our paper mill has had to extend beyond its initial geographical ...

Narrative Review: Should Teaching of the Respiratory Physical Examination Be Restricted Only to Signs with Proven Reliability and Validity?

To review the reported reliability (reproducibility, inter-examiner agreement) and validity (sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios) of respiratory physical examination (PE) signs, and suggest an approach to teaching these signs to medical students. Review of the literature. We searched Paper Chase between 1966 and June 2009 to identify and evaluate published studies on the diagnostic accuracy of respiratory PE signs. Most studies have reported low to fair reliability and sensitivity values. However, some studies have found high specificites for selected PE signs. None of the studies that we reviewed adhered to all of the STARD criteria for reporting diagnostic accuracy. Possible flaws in study designs may have led to underestimates of the observed diagnostic accuracy of respiratory PE signs. The reported poor reliabilities may have been due to differences in the PE skills of the participating examiners, while the sensitivities may have been confounded by variations in the severity of the diseases of the participating patients. IMPLICATION FOR PRACTICE AND MEDICAL EDUCATION: Pending the results of properly controlled studies, the reported poor reliability and sensitivity of most respiratory PE signs do not necessarily detract from their clinical utility. Therefore, we believe that a meticulously performed respiratory PE, which aims to explore a diagnostic hypothesis, as opposed to a PE that aims to detect a disease in an asymptomatic person, remains a cornerstone of clinical practice. We propose teaching the respiratory PE signs according to their importance, beginning with signs of life-threatening conditions and those that have been reported to have a high specificity, and ending with signs that are "nice to know," but are no longer employed because of the availability of more easily performed tests.

To Teach and to Treat: Meditations on The Miracle Worker

To Teach and to TreatMeditations on The Miracle Worker Ellen Handler Spitz "It's less trouble to feel sorry for her than it is to teach her anything better." William Gibson, The Miracle Worker When Dr. Gerard Fromm asked me to speak on The Miracle Worker at the Austen Riggs annual Creativity Conference in honor of playwright William Gibson, who passed away in November 2008, at the age of ninety-four, and who was a great friend to psychoanalysis, I demurred at first because I am not an expert on the life of Helen Keller, nor indeed on blindness, nor on disability; yet I have thought deeply about the film, and I hope that what follows may prove meaningful. It is, of course, a brilliant work, and all I can do is to offer a few of my own perceptions. I must emphasize at the outset that, in what follows, I shall be speaking about the 1962 movie with William Gibson's script, just as it is, and not its relation to historical fact. I shall be treating it sui generis, as a work of art, tout compris. Last term, my colleague Professor Jay Freyman, a classicist, and I taught a seminar on "The Nature of Learning and the Art of Teaching" at our campus of the University of Maryland. In it, we screened this film, as it seemed to us that The Miracle Worker had to be an indispensable part of our inquiry. But why? What makes it such an important and timeless classic on the nature of learning and the art of teaching? Ninety minutes long, black and white, deceptively simple, the film held our students rapt (the class, twenty Humanities Scholars, watched it together, as a group). Although they had already been captivated by a plethora of engaging material, [End Page 101] including films such as Goodbye, Mr. Chips, To Sir with Love, Farewell, My Concubine, Stand and Deliver, Dead Poets Society, The Paper Chase, and many readings ranging from Aristophanes, Plato, and Montaigne to Jacques Barzun, Gilbert Highet, and Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), I doubt that, for most of them, anything trumped The Miracle Worker. Our special focus was as stated, and, along with this particular film, we asked our students to read Montaigne's classic, justly famous essay of 1575, "Of the Education of Children," a supremely relevant text. Now, at Austen Riggs, the manifest focus is not on teaching and learning per se but rather on therapy and treatment. Which are different. Or are they? If they are different, how are they different and in what ways different? Bennett Simon, for example, has noted in Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece (1978) that Plato treats madness and ignorance as maladies of the same kind. Simon writes: "Plato's unique contribution is the ideal that man can achieve control over the irrational by a special kind of training and education." He adds that, "analogously, Freud's unique contribution was the development of [a method] leading to permanent, internal reorganization … a method of understanding, leading to self understanding" (207). This juxtaposition frames my essay. In pondering the film and what it portrays and in considering how different and similar these realms of endeavor are and in what ways they overlap—education and treatment, the teacher and the therapist—we might note that the Greek stem therap- carries the basic meaning "to serve." Hence, its English derivative "therapist" likewise carries the connotation of service, i. e., the therapist renders service to the body or mind of the patient. Indeed, the ancient Greeks so used the stem to mean "render medical service."1 Annie Sullivan, young and inexperienced (Helen Keller was her first pupil), is brought to Tuscumbia, Alabama by a set of desperate parents because their little girl, Helen, blind and deaf, needs to learn. The stakes are high. If she cannot learn, the alternative under consideration by her family is to send her to an institution that may destroy her spirit and possibly spell her demise altogether. Creating mayhem in her parents' gracious southern mansion, Helen appears to us on screen as a feral child—dirty, [End Page 102] unkempt, uttering...