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Preciousjeni,
My hope is that this book will also be utilized by communication studies, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, and women studies professors. Please know this is a work in progress, thus nothing unchangeable. The dissertation study I can do nothing about since it was published in 2006. The book will be different from the dissertation study in that I am working to make it as accurate as I can. I was relatively "green" when writing the dissertation, so I'm looking forward to getting this book done now that I have a bit more experience writing.
As to the use of acronyms, I use LaGLO (singular) or LaGLOs (plural) when referring to Latina-based (female) Greek-letter organizations and LoGLO or LoGLOs when refering to Latino-based (male) Greek-letter organizations when wanting to use the term organizations instead of sororities or fraternities. However, if it is very objectionable to all of you then I could easily change this practice to read: Latina GLO or Latino GLO.
Some might argue it best to use LGLO all the time, but to do so can be confusing when referring specifically to females or males. It seems to me that LGLO would be used when generalizing about all Latino/a GLOs, as is done when talking about the Latino community for instance.
I don't recall using "LaGLS." If I did, I did so in error. The use of LGLS doesn't need the "La" because the "S" stands for sorority or sororities whereas the "F" would stand for fraternity or fraternities, depending on the context in which the acronyms are used. It would be very tedious and would take up type space (which one needs to think of when writing a book) to write out, and possibly to read, Latina-based Greek-letter sorority, Latina sorority, Latino fraternity, or whatever over and over again. As "Senusret I" noted, BLGS and BLGF are used by Parks, which is were I got the idea to use LGLS and LGLF.
I am currently teaching at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. There are no LGLOs here, although there are some at other UW system universities.
Last edited by Researcher; 02-17-2009 at 12:51 AM.
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