Assistant Professor of English: Linguistics - Tenure Track
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content.
From posting:
- About JMU Mission etc: That's about the institution, not exactly "About the role". Could be "About the role" maybe includes description of position. The posting includes "General Information" about department and college. Could be considered "About the role". We'll include an About the role
with paragraphs summarizing that info (but we must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail). We need to preserve all substantive info; we can't summarize away detail, but we can keep the same content in paragraphs. We can copy the relevant paragraphs.
We must not repeat the job title as heading. No Job ID etc.
We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities), Qualifications (maybe combine Required and Additional Considerations), Skills? Not explicit. Benefits? Not mentioned. Pay? It says Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience (that's placeholder, not specific). According to rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. "Commensurate with Experience" is not specific; it's placeholder. So we should NOT include Pay section. Schedule? Not mentioned. Benefits? Not mentioned. Skills? Not explicit; maybe we can omit.
Qualifications: we have Required qualifications and Additional Considerations. We'll put under Qualifications
with - for each bullet.
Responsibilities: we have Duties And Responsibilities paragraph.
About the role: we have "General Information" about department and college, plus JMU Mission etc. We'll include that as prose under
About the role
.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. So we need to strip out the EEO statement, Reasonable Accommodation, Conditions of Employment (background check, E-Verify), Dual Career resources? That might be considered application instructions? It's more like a benefit but not specific. The rule says remove application instructions. The lines about "Interested candidate will complete the online application and provide: ..." is application instruction; remove. Also "JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available..." maybe considered benefit? Not specific; but it's a resource. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but still maybe not required. Safer to remove it as it's not substantive about the role? It is a resource but could be considered benefit. However rule: only include Benefits if posting actually states them. This is a benefit statement but vague. It says program is available for candidates that will be relocating. That's a benefit. But it's not detailed; still it's a statement of a benefit. The rule says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state a benefit (Dual Career program). So we could include a Benefits section with that content. However we need to see if it's considered substantive. It's a specific program. I'd include Benefits section with that paragraph.
But also we have "Conditions Of Employment" which includes background check, E-Verify. That's not a benefit; it's a condition. Might be considered boilerplate legal; remove.
EEO statement remove.
Reasonable Accommodation remove.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information: that includes the description of JMU mission, vision, who we are, department info, college info, duties, qualifications, additional considerations, dual career program.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact sentences? We can keep them as paragraphs; we can break them into tags but keep the text.
We must not add extra info not present.
Let's extract relevant blocks:
From posting:
"About JMU Mission We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives. Vision To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world. Who We Are Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty. JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research."
That's a block.
Then "General Information The Department of English at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Linguistics to begin August 2027. The Department offers a B.A. and an M.A. English and serves students in the university’s General Education program. It houses the University’s thriving creative writing minor, and faculty teach across many interdisciplinary minors, including African, African American and Diaspora Studies; American Studies; Digital Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; Film Studies; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; Linguistics; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Queer Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and World Literature. The College of Arts and Letters, in which the Department of English is located, enrolls over 3100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. We embrace the teacher-scholar model, and encourage excellent applicants within our particular disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them."
That's also about the role/department.
We can combine these into About the role section.
Now Duties And Responsibilities:
"The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory, advanced, and graduate (M.A.) courses in Linguistics to English majors and minors, Pre-Professional Secondary Education (SEED) majors and minors, Linguistics minors, and contribute to the university’s General Education Program. This hire will also contribute to the English curriculum by offering literature courses for majors and minors and in the General Education program."
Now Qualifications Required:
"PhD in Linguistics or a related field by August 31, 2027Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in teaching in Linguistics and LiteratureEvidence of excellence or potential for excellence in publishing in an area of LinguisticsEvidence of excellence or potential for excellence in departmental, university, or professional service in support of the fields of Linguistics and English"
Note there is no spacing; but we can separate into bullet points.
Additional Considerations:
"We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and experience in one or more of the interdisciplinary minors in the College of Arts and Letters.We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and ability in teaching Histories of English. We seek candidates with a demonstrated commitment to building a supportive, welcoming scholarly environment."
Now Benefits: Dual Career and Community Resources Program.
"JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2OTF1NG."
We should keep that as a benefit.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown.
We'll produce:
About the role
... paragraphs ...
Maybe split into multiple for readability but must preserve all info; splitting is fine as long as we don't lose content.
We'll need to ensure we don't add extra content like "N/A". Avoid empty sections.
Now produce final HTML.
Let's craft the About the role content: combine the two blocks into maybe two paragraphs.
Paragraph 1: JMU Mission, Vision, Who We Are.
Paragraph 2: General Information about department and college.
Now Responsibilities: one paragraph.
Qualifications: we can have
- each bullet.
We need to split the required qualifications into four bullets.
Additional Considerations: maybe three bullets or one paragraph with three sentences. Could be
- each.
Benefits: one paragraph.
Let's extract exact text:
JMU Mission: "We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives."
Vision: "To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world."
Who We Are: "Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty. JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research."
Now General Information: "The Department of English at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Linguistics to begin August 2027. The Department offers a B.A. and an M.A. English and serves students in the university’s General Education program. It houses the University’s thriving creative writing minor, and faculty teach across many interdisciplinary minors, including African, African American and Diaspora Studies; American Studies; Digital Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; Film Studies; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; Linguistics; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Queer Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and World Literature. The College of Arts and Letters, in which the Department of English is located, enrolls over 3100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. We embrace the teacher-scholar model, and encourage excellent applicants within our particular disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them."
Now Duties: "The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory, advanced, and graduate (M.A.) courses in Linguistics to English majors and minors, Pre-Professional Secondary Education (SEED) majors and minors, Linguistics minors, and contribute to the university’s General Education Program. This hire will also contribute to the English curriculum by offering literature courses for majors and minors and in the General Education program."
Now Qualifications Required bullets:
- PhD in Linguistics or a related field by August 31, 2027
- Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in teaching in Linguistics and Literature
- Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in publishing in an area of Linguistics
- Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in departmental, university, or professional service in support of the fields of Linguistics and English
Now Additional Considerations bullets:
- We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and experience in one or more of the interdisciplinary minors in the College of Arts and Letters.
- We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and ability in teaching Histories of English.
- We seek candidates with a demonstrated commitment to building a supportive,
About the role
. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. So we need to strip out the EEO statement, Reasonable Accommodation, Conditions of Employment (background check, E-Verify), Dual Career resources? That might be considered application instructions? It's more like a benefit but not specific. The rule says remove application instructions. The lines about "Interested candidate will complete the online application and provide: ..." is application instruction; remove. Also "JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available..." maybe considered benefit? Not specific; but it's a resource. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but still maybe not required. Safer to remove it as it's not substantive about the role? It is a resource but could be considered benefit. However rule: only include Benefits if posting actually states them. This is a benefit statement but vague. It says program is available for candidates that will be relocating. That's a benefit. But it's not detailed; still it's a statement of a benefit. The rule says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state a benefit (Dual Career program). So we could include a Benefits section with that content. However we need to see if it's considered substantive. It's a specific program. I'd include Benefits section with that paragraph. But also we have "Conditions Of Employment" which includes background check, E-Verify. That's not a benefit; it's a condition. Might be considered boilerplate legal; remove. EEO statement remove. Reasonable Accommodation remove. Now we need to preserve all substantive information: that includes the description of JMU mission, vision, who we are, department info, college info, duties, qualifications, additional considerations, dual career program. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact sentences? We can keep them as paragraphs; we can break them intotags but keep the text. We must not add extra info not present. Let's extract relevant blocks: From posting: "About JMU Mission We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives. Vision To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world. Who We Are Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty. JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research." That's a block. Then "General Information The Department of English at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Linguistics to begin August 2027. The Department offers a B.A. and an M.A. English and serves students in the university’s General Education program. It houses the University’s thriving creative writing minor, and faculty teach across many interdisciplinary minors, including African, African American and Diaspora Studies; American Studies; Digital Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; Film Studies; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; Linguistics; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Queer Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and World Literature. The College of Arts and Letters, in which the Department of English is located, enrolls over 3100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. We embrace the teacher-scholar model, and encourage excellent applicants within our particular disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them." That's also about the role/department. We can combine these into About the role section. Now Duties And Responsibilities: "The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory, advanced, and graduate (M.A.) courses in Linguistics to English majors and minors, Pre-Professional Secondary Education (SEED) majors and minors, Linguistics minors, and contribute to the university’s General Education Program. This hire will also contribute to the English curriculum by offering literature courses for majors and minors and in the General Education program." Now Qualifications Required: "PhD in Linguistics or a related field by August 31, 2027Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in teaching in Linguistics and LiteratureEvidence of excellence or potential for excellence in publishing in an area of LinguisticsEvidence of excellence or potential for excellence in departmental, university, or professional service in support of the fields of Linguistics and English" Note there is no spacing; but we can separate into bullet points. Additional Considerations: "We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and experience in one or more of the interdisciplinary minors in the College of Arts and Letters.We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and ability in teaching Histories of English. We seek candidates with a demonstrated commitment to building a supportive, welcoming scholarly environment." Now Benefits: Dual Career and Community Resources Program. "JMU’s Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2OTF1NG." We should keep that as a benefit. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown. We'll produce:
About the role
... paragraphs ...
Maybe split into multiplefor readability but must preserve all info; splitting is fine as long as we don't lose content. We'll need to ensure we don't add extra content like "N/A". Avoid empty sections. Now produce final HTML. Let's craft the About the role content: combine the two blocks into maybe two paragraphs. Paragraph 1: JMU Mission, Vision, Who We Are. Paragraph 2: General Information about department and college. Now Responsibilities: one paragraph. Qualifications: we can have
- each bullet.
We need to split the required qualifications into four bullets.
Additional Considerations: maybe three bullets or one paragraph with three sentences. Could be
- each. Benefits: one paragraph. Let's extract exact text: JMU Mission: "We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives." Vision: "To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world." Who We Are: "Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA. JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty. JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research." Now General Information: "The Department of English at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Linguistics to begin August 2027. The Department offers a B.A. and an M.A. English and serves students in the university’s General Education program. It houses the University’s thriving creative writing minor, and faculty teach across many interdisciplinary minors, including African, African American and Diaspora Studies; American Studies; Digital Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; Film Studies; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; Linguistics; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Queer Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and World Literature. The College of Arts and Letters, in which the Department of English is located, enrolls over 3100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. We embrace the teacher-scholar model, and encourage excellent applicants within our particular disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them." Now Duties: "The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory, advanced, and graduate (M.A.) courses in Linguistics to English majors and minors, Pre-Professional Secondary Education (SEED) majors and minors, Linguistics minors, and contribute to the university’s General Education Program. This hire will also contribute to the English curriculum by offering literature courses for majors and minors and in the General Education program." Now Qualifications Required bullets: - PhD in Linguistics or a related field by August 31, 2027 - Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in teaching in Linguistics and Literature - Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in publishing in an area of Linguistics - Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in departmental, university, or professional service in support of the fields of Linguistics and English Now Additional Considerations bullets: - We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and experience in one or more of the interdisciplinary minors in the College of Arts and Letters. - We welcome applications from candidates with secondary interest and ability in teaching Histories of English. - We seek candidates with a demonstrated commitment to building a supportive,