Dear Marin,

I can see why you have doubts, however I have a some volunteers already. There are other tasks that might be more valued in academia, but perhaps we should see collegiality and inclusion, and those who seek and promote them, as valuable too. Some scholars already act in this generous way, although perhaps not yet by helping to bridge the language gap. Several years ago, I was told that if I ever saw an academic in a position of power and couldn't immediately spot tangible merits, that I should look at his or her record on speed and reliability of peer-review completion, reference letter writing and other contributions to academia. 

I am still looking for volunteers for any language people feel they can contribute to review. And I have been thinking that if this becomes a large enough enterprise, there should be a site where volunteers can sign up and be found. 

In the meantime, I want to thank all of those who already put their names forward. I am sure that they know this already but I want to say it anyway: your participation matters, your actions matter and I, personally, feel grateful to find that members of this community have so much to give and such willingness to do so. 


All the best,

BB


On 28 Aug 2013, at 05:29, Marin Dacos <marin.dacos@openedition.org> wrote:

This is a very interesting proposal. I am not sure if is doable, because it will become a heavy task to do for native speakers, and these task will be in competition with other, much more valuated in the acadamy, such as writing books or articles for their own.
How could we solve this issue?
Best regards,
Marin



On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Bordalejo, Barbara <bab995@mail.usask.ca> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

During the last few weeks I have reviewed some articles (all in English) by non-native speakers. Some times they are almost perfect, some others they are far from it. I know that my own texts suffer the same problems. Clearly, this is a factor that keeps scholars, who are not native speakers of English, marginalised.

We had a similar discussion on the subject of the Anglo-American (and Canadian) hegemony in the field, but I don't recall a concrete solution being offered. In any case, I have an idea that might be helpful. I was wondering whether I could ask those of you with native or near-native English skills to volunteer to proof articles to avoid rejections based on bad expression or avoidable mistakes.

If you think that you can contribute to this, send me an e-mail and I will compile a list of volunteers to put in the GO::DH website.

Thank you for your help,

BB



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