Oddly enough, I feel pretty much okay about this. I like to think that one of my good qualities as a researcher is an ability to rapidly skim stuff from way outside my field. I sure as hell am not well-versed in, say, coding theory, but I've been able to extract the bits that seem to be relevant to what I'm working on in not a great deal of time. I'd be less good if you set me loose in the biochemistry shelves, of course, and my knowledge of what the English prof/MLA types do is limited to an ability to read the same language they do. Perhaps the difference between us is that I totally do not care about biochem, and it seems like maybe you do?
On another note, a decent way to fake being well-versed is to read at least the abstracts of everything in Science and Nature. Most of it is totally incomprehensible outside of the article's particular field, but you can usually get the gist of it, and sometimes even figure out why somebody thinks this is important.
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Date: 2005-04-29 01:06 pm (UTC)On another note, a decent way to fake being well-versed is to read at least the abstracts of everything in Science and Nature. Most of it is totally incomprehensible outside of the article's particular field, but you can usually get the gist of it, and sometimes even figure out why somebody thinks this is important.