#TIL Series: Prey Me Not!

"Yap, this is predatory." 

For almost 7 years as an educator, this was the first time I heard that term. If I were to illustrate what was inside my mind during the time Ms. Wina was explaining what predatory journals are,  I swear I look like this:

To be honest am just amazed... and though I sound too innocent, seriously I have no idea what predatory research is all about. (pic from NGTV x EXIT Charannel | GAME Vol. 6 - WORDWOLF/ワードウルフ)

As a backgrounder, my Technical Writing Professor, Ms. Edwina Bensal and I, were on the process of making our research and had a big stumbling block on our way — where to publish the study.

Upon remembering that I was subscribed to a certain publication journal God only knows where and how I searched it, then told Ms. Wina about it.  But good thing, she was vigilant enough to check that the publication journal was indeed predatory.

Predatory — I only heard this term in one of my science classes. We got the prey which is the main 'target' while the predator is of course the one that will hunt the prey. That was my simplest 'meaning making' out of it, which turned out to be true after all.

I was so happy when Ms. Wina posted her blog entry about predatory journals! Not gonna lie but I immediately read it and shared her entry on my Facebook account for my friends to know too since some of them were also taking up their post-grad studies and one of the requirements for graduation (for the schools that I have been this is a requirement, not sure for the others) would be to publish our study.

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