- ISBN13: 9781579222642
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Product Description
* 199 tips for getting your PhD and surviving and thriving in your first years of teaching
* Irreverent, but serious, guide to what higher education institutions are REALLY like
* Illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to life
Just landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and planning a career in academe? Already in your first job? This insightful guide will help you achieve success.
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What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career
#1 by J. Lakin on May 22nd, 2010
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This is a nice addition to the genre of guides for new and future academics. The 199 tips are pithy and insightful. The topics range from job hunting, tenure, writing, and diversity on campus. There is even a short appendix on writing the dissertation. I think the advice is geared more towards academics going to research-intensive universities, but probably has a lot to offer academics in teaching institutions as well. I believe it will appeal to a range of fields.
You can’t expect much meat from a help book under 150 pages, but the advice is wide-ranging, so I think most graduate students or new faculty would find many new tips and ideas in this book. It is certainly an easy read and worth looking through. For someone without a lot of exposure to the day-to-day life of a professor, it would be very valuable.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Pequecita on May 22nd, 2010
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This book is definitely not the answer of all your questions after finishing PhD —actually it is far away of being that— but, it certainly has some very good advices. Even when most of its advices are from common sense, I’m sure that you will find at least few of them totally useful. The book is very easy and fun to read. You will not get hurt of reading, you don’t really pay too much, and it could be finished quickly. It’s worth reading.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Jane Fedorowicz on May 22nd, 2010
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Great advice written in fun style. Definitely fits the “if only I had known…” needs of all in a professorial career.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Midwest Book Review on May 22nd, 2010
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Life in Academia – there are some things that simply won’t be taught in a class room. “What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for success in Your Academic Career” is a guide and heartfelt attempt to teach young educators and faculty what they weren’t taught in their graduate school classes. With a humorous tint, it’s as entertaining as it is informative, broken down into fifteen manageable chapters complete with appendixes. “What They Didn’t Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for success in Your Academic Career” is a top pick for any new educator, and a dual pick for education and jobs/career collections.
Rating: 5 / 5