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Relates the author's experience in delivering her first paper for the Graduate Student Caucus at the Modern Language Association conference in the humanities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Overview of the conference paper; Impact of the conference paper on her professional life; Career background of the author.

The article discusses the state of foreign-language learning in Great Britain at all levels. According to the British Academy's 2009 paper "Language Matters," the recent trends in foreign-language learning may tarnish the distinction of British scholarship within the humanities and social sciences. The 2004 decision of the British government to make languages optional for pupils ages 14 to 16 has allegedly led to the increase in the proportion of school children doing no languages at all. Such issues pose threats to research and language skills supply.

Describes the emotional anxiety of Nothan Abram on his first conference paper as a postgraduate student in Modern US History in Southampton University in England.

Reports on the release of the "Towards a Unified E-Learning Strategy", a dissertation paper by the Department for Education and Skills, which stresses the need for use of online assessment to improvement teaching efficiency in Great Britain. Level of achievement for a conventional exam; Improvement of researching assessment in history, humanities and socials sciences; Reliability of the method introduce in the dissertation.

Comments on some principles that humanities journals should fulfill to diminish the utility of the papers to be published. Role of peer review; Need to define a time limit for author's responses; Length of appearance of accepted articles in print; Journal's publication of their impact factors and the comparative impact factor range within their own field.