Sentence examples for a conventional academic. from inspiring English sources

Harold had the intellectual apparatus necessary for a conventional academic career of great distinction.

The psychologists report that due to problems in interviewing prisoners, "the methodology could not be developed through a conventional academic approach".

"But to be a conventional academic economist you almost have to swear an oath that governments can't outguess markets in the allocation of capital").

From the 1950s into 1970s, Mr. Fussell followed a conventional academic path, teaching and writing on literary topics, specializing in 18th-century British poetry and prose.

He said: "There is a tendency for young historians who have completed their doctoral thesis to, rather than present it in a conventional academic form, immediately hire an agent, cut out the footnotes, jazz it all up a bit and try to produce a historical bestseller from what would have otherwise been a perfectly good academic work.

In another age, he might have been a conventional academic with a range of interests, perhaps not dissimilar to Lewis Carroll, whose work he also lovingly pastiched, but in the 20th and 21st centuries he was able to apply his brilliance and scholarly flair not to Herodotus or Robert Browning but to the glorious new medium of cinema.

I spent my summers working on commercial fishing boats in the Bering Sea and a horse ranch in Colorado". He then settled down to a more conventional academic life.

They would have preferred a more conventional academic route.

He nursed this ambition through a fairly conventional academic career, which eventually took him to M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.

Thus, in 1974, Harvard and Monsanto embarked on a radical departure from conventional academic research by entering into a joint venture catalyzed by Bert and Monsanto Vice-President, Monte Throdahl.

While courses offered through distance learning are a convenient alternative to conventional academic programs, they naturally suffer from the lack of hands-on experience in the execution of clinical trails and from the difficulty in teaching team-building skills in an online environment.