Full Description
From Student to Professor is the doorway through which readers experience graduate school life, from both sides of the lectern. This guide not only discusses how students may adjust and succeed in graduate school; it also prepares them to enter a career in academia.
Providing a broad perspective on the professoriate, Mullen offers readers a visual map of the entire graduate school experience, navigational prompts, case studies, anecdotes, glossaries, and updated resources in order to best understand vital issues that affect graduate students and professors: learning productively within groups, developing effective marketing and networking strategies, creating successful student-centered programs, and establishing digital learning relationships in the academy.
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Dale L. Brubaker
Acknowledgments
Preface: Knocking on the Academy's Door
Introduction: Inside the Academy's Doors
Part I: Getting Started: Strategies and Options
1Creating Mentoring Maps of the Academy
2Seeking Help from Program Faculty and Peers
3Finding Out about Resources and Opportunities
Part II: Becoming Immersed: Relating and Learning
4Making Every Minute and Day Count
5Joining Mentoring Networks and Programs
6Practicing Mutuality and Reciprocity
Part III: Emerging Prepared: Networks and Markets7Gaining Disseminating and Publishing Skills
8Overcoming Job Marketing Obstacles
9Executing Resilient Mentoring Agendas
10Digital Networking as an Academic Entrepreneur
Postscript: Closing the Academy's Door
Appendixes
Appendix A: Program Do's for Thesis/Dissertation Writers
Appendix B: Reflecting Student Input in a Faculty Supporting Letter
Appendix C: Initiating Communications with Graduate Program Committee
Appendix D: Documenting Changes on a Graduate Defense Form
Appendix E: Listing Amendments on a Dissertation/Thesis Review Form
Appendix F: Cover Letter Accompanying Manuscript Submission
Appendix G: Summary of Changes Accompanying Reworked Paper
Appendix H: Brief Review of a Paper Submitted to a Journal
Appendix I: Cover Letter for an Assistant Professor Position
References and Resources (print and nonprint)
Index
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