Surviving grad school

• Cassuto (on failing to prepare grad students)
• How to be a good graduate student
• GradHacker (grad student blog)

Writing

• Great tips on selecting topic and approach to the writing
• On writing clearly, by George Orwell
• Editing your own work
• Writing groups
• Lamott (on writing...uh...early drafts)
• Enck-Wanzer (tips for grad students)
• Bohon (on pomodoro technique)
• Toor (on revising)
• Toor (on the writing date)

Dissertation

• Dissertation writing tips
• ABD survival guide

Submitting and presenting at conferences

• Schiappa (see ch. 2, on professional organizations)

Turning a conference paper into a journal submission

• Check out the Belcher book
• Gunn (on publishing)

Teaching

• FERPA guidelines (privacy guidelines in higher ed)
• Bok Center on lecturing
• Dawes on leading discussion
• Chronicle article (on syllabus plaigiarism)
  
• Penn State Teaching Institute (on syllabus creation)
• Rubin (on purpose of syllabus)
• Svinicki (on grading)
• Chickering & Ehrmann (on tech in teaching)
• Sample (on Twitter)
• Cordell (on new technologies and teaching)

Applying for a job

• First time on the market? A primer
• Montell (on writing teaching philosophy; this is a Chronicle article, so you may need to access it on campus or through the library web site)
• Teaching philosophy advice
• Schiappa (see ch. 5, on teaching portfolio)
• Teaching philosophy examples
• More teaching philosophy advice (from Chronicle)
• Iowa State University CELT advice
• Ohio State University FTAD advice
• Kelly (on finding an academic job...or not)
• CV doctor
• Schiappa (ch. 1, 7, 8; on job market, job hunt, academic interview)
• Durand (on cover letter)

Good advice books (asterisk indicates we have available in the office--talk to Mary Jo starting in July):

• ** Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia, Toth
• ** What the Best College Teachers Do, Bain
• ** Promotion and Tenure Confidential, Perlmutter
• ** What They Didn't Teach you in Graduate School, Gray and Drew
• Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Toth
• Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks, Belcher