So You Want to Be a Professor?: A Handbook for Graduate Students - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0761918973 ISBN 13: 9780761918974

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Maybe you'd like to combine the two loves of your life, teaching and scholarship, and perhaps build a satisfying and profitable academic career, but you're not sure if this is really what you want or how to go about it. Or maybe you've made up your mind but need some good advice on how to succeed. If so, this book is written for you. So You Want To Be a Professor begins with a discussion of jobs in academia and how to find them. Chapters cover a wide range of political skills for future academic success, including lecturing, organizing a course, meeting your first class, testing, maintaining a research program, and writing for publication. No other book provides such a practical overview of essential career-building skills. Even junior faculty will benefit from the advice in this engaging, comprehensive book.

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Contenuti

Employment Opportunities in Academia
Getting an Academic Job
Learning to Teach
Organizing a Course
Presenting a Course
Meeting Your First Class
Testing and Evaluation
Advising and Mentoring
Research and Scholarship
Publishing
Getting Tenure
Academic Integrity
Getting Fired
The Academic Career

Product Description

This guide for graduate students shows you how to get an academic job and, more importantly, how to succeed in it. With chapters on teaching, testing, advising, researching and publishing, the book provides everything you need to know to pursue a successful academic career.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761918973
• ISBN 13: 9780761918974
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile