Academic Organization by Discipline

AAUW Homepage

American Historical Association

American Political Science Association

International Journal of Applied Management

Minority Science Network

MLA Related Professional Organizations

Modern Language Association

ScienceCareers.org

Scientist - Magazine of the Life

Voice of the Shuttle


Advisor / Advisee Relationships

Best of Doc-Talk: Working With

Betrayed by Your Advisor

Choosing a Postdoc or Graduate Advisor

Dissertation Advisor:  User's Manual

Dissertation Disagreement:  What To Do When You and Your Advisor Disagree Over the Path of Your Research

Dysfunctional Advisor- Advisee Relationships:  Methods for Negotiating Beyond the Conflict

Professor/ Grad Relationships:  Maximizing the Mentoring Potential

Graduate Supervision: Guidelines for Students, Faculty, and Administrators (PDF)

How to Choose an Advisor

How to Deal With Faculty

How To Drive Your Supervisor

How to Get the Mentoring You Want (A Downloadable Handbook from U of Michigan) (PDF)

Insider's Guide to Choosing a Graduate Advisor and Research Projects in Laboratory Science

The Insider's Guide to Graduate Education (PDF)

Is It Whom You Know?

Managing Your Advisor

A Match Made in Heaven:  Finding the Perfect Advisor

Mentoring: Advice for Doctoral Students

Mentoring Tips from Grad Students and Faculty

Mentoring, Balance and Self-Car -- Especially for Women: A Collection of Articles and Resources

MSU Research Mentoring Handbook (PDF)

Questions to Ask When Selecting an Advisor

Should I Trust Him?

What to Do When You're Not Your Advisor's Favorite

Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too

Working With Your Committee


Career Resources

Academic Careers Online

Academic Employment Network

The Academic Job Market: a Guide for the Ambivalent

The Academic Position Network

AcademicKeys.com for Business: The Premier Website for Higher Education Jobs, University Jobs, and Academic Jobs

Alternative Careers in Science

Alternatives to Adjunct Work

Are You Sure?

Career Opportunities for Law School Graduates

The Career Resource Guide for Graduate and Professional Students (PDF)

Career Services at Princeton University

Careers in Teaching

CollegeJournal.com-- Exploring Career Paths

Deprogramming From the Academic Cult

E-Careers, or the Last Revenge of the Liberal-Arts Graduate

Finding the Perfect Postdoc for You (PDF)

From Teaching to Admissions

How Internships Can Open Doors for New Careers

How to Get a Teaching Job at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PDF)

How to Land a Career in Technical Writing

How to Plan for a Career Before Your Have One

Is a Job at a Religious College Right for You?

A Little Advice From 32,000 Graduate Students

Losing Status: A Former Faculty Member Takes a Staff Job

The Meta-Professional Skills Model

Not Seen and Not Heard:  Female Scientists and Children

Occupations Within and Outside of Academia at Onetcenter.org

Online Teaching (PDF)

Opportunities Abroad

Options Beyond the Academy

Part-Time Working Mothers:  No Longer the Underground of Science (PDF)

A Ph.D. and a Failure

PhD Career Resources (Univ of Washington)

PhD Career.com

PhD Vignettes

Planning a Career After Graduate School (from the MLA)

Postdoc Fellowships

Postdocjobs.com

Preparation For an Academic Career

Preparing For an Academic Career in the Geosciences

Researching Careers

Researching Occupations--Within and Outside of Academia

Sellout: A Resource for Humanities PhDs Considering Careers Beyond the University

Should You Be a Consultant?

Success Stories:  Those Who Have Made the Escape

Switching Disciplines

Taking Stock of Yourself

Teaching Abroad

Teaching in the Community College (PDF)

Teaching Versus Research

Transferable Skills of a PhD

Transferring Your Skills to a Non-Academic Setting

Using Grad School Strategically Part II

Using Grad School Strategically

Wetfeet.com

What if you Love Teaching but Can't Get an Academic Job?

What Small Colleges Really Want

What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School

What You Can Do as a Second Year Grad Student

Where to Find Information on Nonacademic Careers

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering


Comprehensive Exams

Best of Doc- Talk:  Oral Exams

Comprehensive Exams FAQ

Comprehensive Exams

Grading Rubric: Doctoral Comprehensives

Model Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Questions

Preparing For Your Comprehensive Exams

Sample Comps Responses

Tips for Taking (and Passing) Qualifying Exams


Comprehensive Resources

Advice for Postgraduates

Choosing a Research Topic That's Right for You

Cynical Advice for Graduate Students

Following Your Scholarly Passions

Getting the Most Out of Graduate School (PDF)

Grad Studies in the Computer and Math Sciences:  A Survival Guide

GradSchoolForum.com

Graduate School Survival Books

How to Be a Good Graduate Student

How to Succeed in Graduate School:  A Guide for Students and Advisors

The Insider's Guide to Graduate Education (PDF)

Life of a Graduate Student (PDF)

A Little Advice From 32,000 Graduate Students

The Meta-Professional Skills Model

Modest Advice for Graduate Students

PhD Stages:  From First Thoughts to First Writing

Survival Skills: Adjusting to the Graduate Life

Tips & Resources for Problem Solving

Useful Resources for Ph.D. Students

Voice of the Shuttle


Conflict Resolution

Basics of Conflict Management

Conflict Management Skills

Dealing With a Difficult Problem

Do's and Don'ts for Responding to Complaints About Your Behavior (PDF)

Resolving Grad Student/ Faculty Conflicts:  Establishing Good Relationships with Faculty (PDF)

Informal Strategies for Responding to Sexual Harassment (PDF)

The Language of Dispute Resolution

MSU Guide to Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflicts Between Faculty and Graduate Students (PDF)

The Power of Apologies (PDF)

The Seven Challenges Workbook and Reader:  Cooperative Communication Skills for Success at Home and Work –Full Online text in PDF

Talking With a Professor About a Grade (PDF)

Tips & Resources for Problem Solving

Writing a Letter:  A Tool for Conflict Resolution (PDF)


Dissertation Process

7 S's to Spell PhD

The All-But-Dissertation Survival Guide

Best of Doc-Talk: On Support Groups

Best of Doc-talk:  Writer's Block

The Best of Finished:  Some Tips and Tricks

Betrayed by Your Advisor

Beyond Writer's Block

The Chronicle of Higher Ed Dissertations and Thesis Writers Support Thread

Creating a Dissertation Support Network

Creating a Work Structure That Works For You

The Dead Thesis Society Online Support Group

Dealing With the Undertow of Negative Feelings

Different Types of Peer Support

Dissertation Advisor:  User's Manual

The Dissertation Calculator

Dissertation Checklist and Sample Schedule

The Dissertation Defense: Being well-defended in a good way

Dissertation Disagreement:  What To Do When You and Your Advisor Disagree Over the Path of Your Research

Dissertation Resources - Recommended books, websites, software and more

Selected Books on Thesis/ Dissertation Writing

Exploding Head Syndrome

Finishing the Dissertation

Getting Down to the Writing

Graduate Game Plan: Overcoming Common Barriers

Graduate School Neuroses

How to Choose a Research Method:  A Quick and Dirty Guide (PDF)

How to Finish a Dissertation--Without the Agony

How To Finish Your Dissertation

How to Organize Your Thesis

How to Survive the Dissertation (PDF)

How to Write a PhD Thesis

In the Kitchen with an Academic Feminist-Mother:  The Dissertation and Children

Is Dissertation Coaching Right for You?

Key to Writing (and Advising) the One-Draft Thesis (PDF)

On the A.B.D. Track: Staying Afloat Without Drifting Off Course

Overcoming Procrastination

PhD Stages:  From First Thoughts to First Writing

Phd Thesis Research:  Where Do I Start?

PhinisheD:  A Discussion and Support Group For People Who Cannot Seem to Finish Their Theses or Dissertations

Place and Space

Protecting Your Precious Time

Researching, Writing, and Defending the Big One

The Rites of Passage (Proposal Writing)

Samples of Dissertation Proposals

Selected Bibliography of Dissertation Writing Resources in Print

Self Care in the Dissertation Part I

Self Care in the Dissertation Part II

Self Care in the Dissertation Part III

Self Care in the Dissertation IV

Sharing the Pain

Should You Finish the Ph.D.?

Some Advice from a Dissertation Advisor

Some Thoughts on Dissertation Proposal Writing

Stand and Deliver

Stress Management from MindTools

Thinking About Your Thesis: Essential Questions Techniques and Tips the MA or PhD Candidate Could Ask of a Thesis in Preparation (PDF)

Tips for Successful Writing Groups

To Work or to Finish?

Twenty-One Steps to a Proposal (PDF)

What is a Thesis Defense?

Why So Many Academics are Lousy Writers

Writing a Dissertation:  Advice from Five Award Winners

Writing and Presenting Your Dissertation or Thesis

Writing Productivity Problems

Writing Theses and Dissertations

Writing Your Dissertation:  A Guide


ESL Grad Students

Curricular Resources in English as a Second Language

Dave's ESL Cafe

ESL Monkeys: English Language Teaching,Learning Resources,ESL Jobs,Schools

Graduate School Statement Samples


Family & Grad School

Balancing Your Life

Being Dr. Mommy

Deadlines and Due Dates

Does Having a Spouse Slow You Down?? (PDF)

A Family Affair

Flying Lovers and Ugly Glasses

Gender, Work, Stress, and Health

Giving Birth in Graduate School

How To Go To Graduate School with Five Children (and a Husband)

An Immodest Proposal: Have Children in Graduate School

In the Kitchen with an Academic Feminist-Mother:  The Dissertation and Children

Naked Ambition and the Art of Marital Compromise

Not Seen and Not Heard:  Female Scientists and Children

Part-Time Working Mothers:  No Longer the Underground of Science (PDF)

The Plight of the Trailing Partner

Singular Mistreatment

Striking a Balance

Time Management & Family Issues (PDF)

The Trailing Spouse Track

Two Academic jobs, One Fulfilling Career

Two Can Make It, Too

Was It a Mistake to Apply as a Couple?

When a Better Job for Your Partner Means a Worse One for You

Whose Job Should be No. 2?

Words from the Wise:  On Balance

Working & Living Together


Funding

AAUW Homepage

American Education Research Association (AERA) Grants Program

All About Grants (Online Tutorial)

The Art of Grantsmanship

The Buck Starts Here

Budgeting Your Research

Council of Graduate Schools: Sources for Fellowships and Financial Aid

Debunking Some Myths About Grant Writing

Developing and Writing Grant Proposals

Examples of Successful Research Proposals

Fatal Flaws & Pitfalls in Grant Writing

Council of Graduate Schools: Sources for Fellowships and Financial Aid

FinAid:  The Smart Student's Guide to Financial Aid

OSVITA / Guides / Financial aid / Funding for Graduate School:

Financing Your Education (Kerlins.Net)

The PhD Project Doctoral Student Associations: Educational Funding Opportunities

Grant Proposal Writing Tips

Grant Proposals (or Give Me the Money!)

Michigan State University Libraries - Grants and Related Resources

How to Pay For Graduate School

National Science Foundation Funding Programs

Postdoc Fellowships

PowerStudents.com

Proposal Budgeting Basics (Online Tutorial)

Proposal Writing Short Course (Online tutorial)

The Grad School Decision: Basic Considerations

Selected Books on Proposal Writing

Strategies for Writing Persuasive Proposals in the Humanities (PDF)

StudentAwards.com

Submitting a Grant Proposal:  Risks, Benefits, & How to Succeed

What Kind of Funding is Right for Me?

Writing the Proposal (Online Tutorial)

Zen in the Art of Grantsmanship


Graduate Student Humor

Burnout Prevention and Recovery

The Graduate Student Humor Page

The Graduate Student's Schedule (humor)


Job Search

12 Worst Job Hunting Mistakes

Academic Interview Checklist

Academic Job Interview Questions

The Academic Job Interview Revisited

Academic Job Searching for Dummies (or, 10 Easy Ways to Avoid Unemployment)

The Academic Pyramid Club (On Requesting Recommendation Letters)

Advice on Getting a Good Recommendation

After the Interview:   Follow-up & Thank You Letters

Are You Ready to Go on the Market?

Asking the Right Questions

Assembling your Application Materials

The B & B Primer On First Job Haggling

The Bachelor in Academe

Bad Answers to Good Questions

Basics of Writing a Cover Letter

Be Honorable and Strategic:  On Negotiating an Academic Position

Being Bad

Being Dr. Mommy

Best of Doc-Talk:  Job Searches

Getting Started in Research:  Keeping a Research Journal

Black and Female in the Academy

Borrowing Cover Letters?

The C.V. Doctor 2006

The Campus Visit

Career Basics: Advice & Resources for Scientists

Common Job-Hunting Blunders

Coping With Chronic Illness When You're on the Job Market

Coping With Chronic Depression I

Coping With Chronic Depression II

A Couple of Worries

Cover & Thank-You Letters (PDF)

Cover Letters Guidebook (PDF)

Creating Possibility Out of Failure

The CV Doctor

Deadlines and Due Dates

Dining etiquette Q & A

Ditch the Boyfriend

The Dual-Science-Career Couple Page

E-Application Etiquette

Early Decision

The Endless Trade-offs of an Academic Marriage

An Etiquette Lesson

Finding the Perfect Postdoc for You (PDF)

Five Reasons to Wait Another Year

Flying Lovers and Ugly Glasses

For the Non-Academic Job Candidate Carrying a PhD

From ABD to the Job Market:  Advice for the Grad School Endgame

From CV to Resume

Game for Anything

Gay, Christian, and Conservative

Get a Grip:  Handshaking 101

Getting Psyched Up for the Market

Giving a Job Talk in the Sciences

Giving Birth in Graduate School

 Go Ahead, Haggle

Going Over the Falls

Good Questions to Ask in a Job Interview

Guide to Writing Letters (PDF)

Guide to Writing Resumes (PDF)

Guidelines for Using Email in your Job Search

How Not to Act in a Job Interview

 How To Be Your Own Worst Enemy on the Job Market

How to Cope on the Market as an Academic Couple

How to Handle 12 Interviews in 45 Days

How to Tell if the Interview Went Well

How to Write a Cover Letter

I'm Perfect, So Why Won't Anyone Hire Me?

Interview Cheat Sheet

Interview Pre-flight Checklist

Interviewing at a Community College

Interviewing at a Teaching Institution

Interviewing at the MLA

Interviewing Etiquette

Interviewing for an Academic Position

Interviewing for Research and Teaching Positions (PDF)

Interviewing Techniques

Interviewing Tips from a Non-stop Interviewer

Job Candidates - Questions to Ask

Job Hunting Errors to Avoid

Job Search Resume Samples (Arts and Letters) (PDF)

Job Search Resume Samples (Engineering) (PDF)

Job Sharing on the Tenure Track

Job-Hunting Correspondence:  Guidelines and Samples

Job-Hunting in a Tight Market

A Job's a Job

Landing an Academic Job:  The Process and the Pitfalls

Links to Spousal-Hiring Programs

The Model Documents Gallery

My Dream Campus Interview

My Imperfect Search

Naked Ambition and the Art of Marital Compromise

The Necessity of Mobility

Negotiating a Startup Package

Negotiating an Offer

Negotiating Salary in the Nonacademic World

Not Seen and Not Heard:  Female Scientists and Children

The Ones We Didn't Hire

One-Year from Job Search:  A Sample Plan

Organize Your Job Search

PhD Career Resources (Univ of Washington)

PhD Interview Preparation Guide--For Positions in Academia

Phone Interviews: Like Phone Sex, Only Less Invigorating

Phone Interviews:  When You Can't Be There In Person

The Plight of the Trailing Partner

Potential Interview Questions

Pregnant on the Job Market

Preparation For an Academic Career

Preparing for Business and Professional Interviews

Preparing for Campus Interviews

Pros and Cons of the Ways to Look for Jobs

Readers Tell Us Their Dumbest Mistakes on the Market

Requesting Letters of Recommendation

Resources for Academic Couples

Responding to Job Offers

Resume Template (PDF)

Rules of the Resume Game

Sample Cover Letters

Sample Job Search Documents

Sample Resumes

Searchable Database of Faculty Salaries (1999-2006)

Should You Go on the Market This Year?

Showcase Your "Homerun" Accomplishments

Singular Mistreatment

The Six Year Wait: The Extended Job Search

The Sixth Time's the Charm

The Slips-Ups of Search Committees

So Why Did I Fail?

A Solution to the Two-Body Problem:  One Female Physicist's Story

Speak Up, Shake Hands, and Smile

Switching Disciplines

Test Your Business Etiquette

They're Just Not That Into You

To Whom It May Concern: Reading Job Applications

Tooling Up:  Job Talk Jitters

Tooling Up:  The Dreaded Phone Interview

The Trailing Spouse Track

Two Academic jobs, One Fulfilling Career

Two Can Make It, Too

Two Friends, One Opening

The UCEA Job Search Handbook

View From the Other Side

Was It a Mistake to Apply as a Couple?

'What If I've Never Heard of This Place?' A 30-Minute Internet Search for Job Seekers

What if you Love Teaching but Can't Get an Academic Job?

What to do About the Two-Body Problem

Dissertation Disagreement:  What To Do When You and Your Advisor Disagree Over the Path of Your Research

What You Don't Know About Cover Letters

When a Better Job for Your Partner Means a Worse One for You

When Good Searches Go Bad

When to Let the Academic Dream Die

Whose Job Should be No. 2?

Why Are Hiring Committees So Mean?

Why Didn't I Get Hired?

Why I Didn't Get That Community-College Job

With All Due Respect, Shut Up

Working & Living Together

The Worst Mistakes You Can Make

Writing an Academic Job Application Letter

Writing an Effective Research Statement

Writing CV's and Resumes

Writing Samples for the Job Search (PDF)

Written Materials for the Academic Job Search (PPT Slide Show)

Your Summer Homework Assignment


Managing Grad Studies

The 5 "Virtues" of Successful Graduate Students

The ABC's of the PhD

Advice for Postgraduates

Advice From Other Grad Students

Advice on Moving from Classwork to Research

Physics at Minnesota: After the First Year

Balancing Your Life

The Benefits of Time Blocking

Characteristics of Graduate School Superstars

Choosing a Research Topic That's Right for You

Cultivating Peer Relationships

Cynical Advice for Graduate Students

Developing Resilience

Exploding Head Syndrome

Faculty Tips on Adjusting the Graduate School

Navigating the First Year of Graduate School

Following Your Scholarly Passions

From ABD to the Job Market:  Advice for the Grad School Endgame

Getting Started in Research:  Keeping a Research Journal

Getting the Most Out of Graduate School (PDF)

Grad Studies in the Computer and Math Sciences:  A Survival Guide

Grad Resources.org:  A Faith-Based Grad Resource

GradSchoolForum.com

Graduate Game Plan: Overcoming Common Barriers

The Graduate School : Managing Your Time

Graduate School Neuroses

Graduate School Survival Books

Graduate School: It's About Time

How to Be a Good Graduate Student

How to Choose a Research Method:  A Quick and Dirty Guide (PDF)

How to Plan for a Career Before Your Have One

How to Succeed in Graduate School:  A Guide for Students and Advisors

How to Survive Your First Year of Grad School in Economics (PDF)

The Insider's Guide to Graduate Education (PDF)

Learning the Lingo

Learning the Lingo, Part 2

Learning the Lingo, Part 3

Life of a Graduate Student (PDF)

A Little Advice From 32,000 Graduate Students

Making the Transition to Graduate School - Psi Chi

Mentoring Tips from Grad Students and Faculty

The Meta-Professional Skills Model

Modest Advice for Graduate Students

Navigating the First Year of Graduate School

Organization Tips for New Grad Students

PhD Stages:  From First Thoughts to First Writing

Phd Thesis Research:  Where Do I Start?

Planning in Grad School

"So long, and Thanks For the Ph.D.!" : A Graduate School Survival Guide:

Some Thoughts on Dissertation Proposal Writing

Striking a Balance

Survival Skills: Adjusting to the Graduate Life

 Surviving the First Year of Graduate School

Talking With a Professor About a Grade (PDF)

Thinking Beyond the Dissertation

Time Management Skills

Tips & Resources for Problem Solving

Tips for Successful Writing Groups

Graduate School Survival Books

Transitioning To Graduate School

Twenty-One Steps to a Proposal (PDF)

Useful Resources for Ph.D. Students

Using Grad School Strategically Part II

Using Grad School Strategically

What You Can Do as a Second Year Grad Student

Doc-Talk:  A Free Email Discussion List for Students Worldwide


Mental and Emotional Wellness

Beliefs that Contribute to Stress

Burnout Prevention and Recovery

College Stress - The Police Notebook

Dealing With the Undertow of Negative Feelings

Emotional Fatigue:  Coping with Academic Pressure

Grad to Grad:  Finding Balance in Grad School

Gender, Work, Stress, and Health

Stress Relief:  Yoga, Meditation, and Other Relaxation Techniques

Grad Resources.org:  A Faith-Based Grad Resource

Stress Management from MindTools

Managing Stress in School: Part I

Mentoring, Balance and Self-Car -- Especially for Women: A Collection of Articles and Resources

Recognizing Burnout:  Before You're In Its Grasp

Reflections on Teacher Burnout

Self Care in the Dissertation Part I

Self Care in the Dissertation Part II

Self Care in the Dissertation Part III

Self Care in the Dissertation IV

Sharing the Pain

Stress Management from MindTools

Stress Quiz: How Stressed Are You?

Tips for Managing Stress


Minorities Issues

10 Helpful Hints to New Black PhD's in Academia

AAUW Homepage

Being Dr. Mommy

Black and Female in the Academy

Does Having a Spouse Slow You Down?? (PDF)

Dual Science Career Couples

A Family Affair

The PhD Project Doctoral Student Associations: Educational Funding Opportunities

Gender, Work, Stress, and Health

Giving Birth in Graduate School

Grad School and the Single Soul

How To Go To Graduate School with Five Children (and a Husband)

How To Successfully Manage The Graduate School Process

An Immodest Proposal: Have Children in Graduate School

In the Kitchen with an Academic Feminist-Mother:  The Dissertation and Children

It's In Their Interest, Too

Life as a Mother-Scientist

Mentoring, Balance and Self-Car -- Especially for Women: A Collection of Articles and Resources

Minority Science Network

Navigating the First Year of Graduate School

Not Seen and Not Heard:  Female Scientists and Children

Part-Time Working Mothers:  No Longer the Underground of Science (PDF)

Saying 'Yes' Too Often:  The Minority Faculty Member's Responsibilities

Singing the Grad-School Baby Blues

Time Management & Family Issues (PDF)

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering


Peer Support/Support Systems

Best of Doc-Talk: Working With

Best of Doc-Talk: On Support Groups

The Chronicle of Higher Ed Dissertations and Thesis Writers Support Thread

Creating a Dissertation Support Network

Cultivating Peer Relationships

The Dead Thesis Society Online Support Group

Different Types of Peer Support

Professor/ Grad Relationships:  Maximizing the Mentoring Potential

GradSchoolForum.com

PhinisheD:  A Discussion and Support Group For People Who Cannot Seem to Finish Their Theses or Dissertations

Sharing the Pain

Tips for Successful Writing Groups

Doc-Talk:  A Free Email Discussion List for Students Worldwide


Personal/Prof Balance

Balancing Your Life

Being Dr. Mommy

Burnout Prevention and Recovery

A Family Affair

Finding Balance - Advice from Faculty & Grad Students

Grad Resources.org:  A Faith-Based Grad Resource

Grad School and the Single Soul

How To Go To Graduate School with Five Children (and a Husband)

Mentoring, Balance and Self-Car -- Especially for Women: A Collection of Articles and Resources

Reflections on Teacher Burnout

Self Care in the Dissertation Part I

Self Care in the Dissertation Part II

Self Care in the Dissertation Part III

Self Care in the Dissertation IV

Striking a Balance

Words from the Wise:  On Balance


Post-Graduate Resources

10 Helpful Hints to New Black PhD's in Academia

Becoming a Good Major Professor

Becoming a More Productive Researcher

Confessions About Time and Stress:  Thoughts for New Faculty (PDF)

Don't Go It Alone

Dual Science Career Couples

Five Rules That Might Save Your Career

Four Steps to Succeeding Outside the Ivory Tower

How to Keep Your Writing Career Going

How To Sabotage Your Career

A Humanities PhD Finds Her Niche in Administration

Is This All There Is?

It's In Their Interest, Too

Just Visiting

Lessons in Time Management

Life as a Mother-Scientist

Losing Status: A Former Faculty Member Takes a Staff Job

Not What I Had in Mind

PhD Vignettes

PostDoc Life at Liberal Arts Colleges (Part 1)

PostDoc Life at Liberal Arts Colleges (Part 2)

Preparing Future Faculty Website

Putting Research Skills to Work for the Public Good

Real Estate and Your Academic Career

Replacing the Transience of Graduate School with the Permanence of a Career

Saying 'Yes' Too Often:  The Minority Faculty Member's Responsibilities

Searching for Sinister Motives

Sellout: A Resource for Humanities PhDs Considering Careers Beyond the University

Settling In, or Just Settling?

Starting at the Bottom

Time Management & Family Issues (PDF)

When Academic Dreams Fade:  Finding Careers Outside of Academia

When the Honeymoon Is Over

When the Job Doesn't Work Out


Professional Networking

About Time Management in Presentations

Academia 101: The Conference Cruise

Academia 101: The Conference Cruise II

Bulldozed by a Moderator

The Captive Audience; or Liberating Thoughts On Conference Papers

Coffee in 2002, a Job Offer in 2004

The Conference Paper Guide

Creating Effective Poster Presentations

Effective Networking Secrets

Creating Effective Poster Presentations

Guide to Informational Interviewing (PDF)

How to Give a Bad Talk

How to Give a Good Talk(PDF)

How to Give a Talk:  Better Academic Speaking in a Nutshell

How to Give an Academic Talk:  Changing the Culture of Public Speaking in the Humanities(PDF)

How To Make a Name for Yourself

How to Transform a Scholarly Presentation into a Public Talk (PDF)

How to Turn a Class Paper into a Conference Paper

If You're Afraid That Giving a Conference Paper Will be...

Informational Interviewing 101

Informational Interviewing and Networking

Integrating Community and Academic Life

Introduction to Effective Visuals (Online Tutorial)s

Introduction to Preparing Talks (Online Tutorial)

Learning to Live With Public-Speaking Anxiety

List of Powerpoint Shortcuts

Managing Stagefright

Networking and Other Academic Hobbies

Networking for Dummies

Networking Know-How

Networking Your Way to A Top Job In School

Networking Your Way to a Job

Networking:  How to Get a Good Connection

No-Sweat Speaking

On Using Graphics in Presentations

Oral Presentation Advice

Pointers on Giving a Talk

PowerPoint FAQs

Preparing For Conference Presentations

Preparing Presentation Slides: A Tutorial by John Battalio

Presentation Disasters

Shameless Self-Promotion

Skip Haley's Networking Tips for Introverts

Some Do's and Don'ts of Giving a Good 15 Minute Talk

Tips on Talks:  How to Keep the Audience Attentive, Alert, and Around for the Conclusion of a Scientific Meeting

Why Go to Conferences?

Publishing Your Work

20 Steps to Writing a Research Article

Academia 101: The Conference Cruise

Accountability and Authorship

The Art of Reviewing

Article Review Process:  Seeing Your Work Into Print

The Association of American University Presses Online Catalog

Getting Published as a Graduate Student in the Sciences

Good Academic Submission Behavior

How to Have Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected

How to Win Acceptances by Psychology Journals:  21 Tips For Better Writing

In Defense of the Least Publishable Unit

A Literature Review:  A Few Thoughts On Conducting It

The Pipeline to Publication

Resources for Research and Publishing

Resources for Writing and Publishing Philosophy (PDF)

Simple Advice for Academic Publishing:  A Protégé Talks Back

Survival Strategies for Academic Publishing

Surviving and Thriving in Academia

This is Not An Article:  Just Some Thoughts on How to Write One (PDF)

The Well-Traveled Article

Writing the Empirical Journal Article (PDF)


Research Tools / Resources

Academic Honesty, Plagiarism, and Cheating:  A Self-Instruction Guide for Post-Graduates (PDF)

Academic Integrity Quiz

APA citation style

APA Formatting and Style Guide

Avoid Sabotaging Your Time-Management Strategies

Avoiding Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial

Bare Bones 101:  A Basic Tutorial for Searching the Web

Basic Pre-Writing Strategies

The Bedford Bibliographer

The Bedford Research Room

The Benefits of Time Blocking

Best of Doc-talk:  Writer's Block

Beyond Writer's Block

Brian's Common Errors in English

CIA - The World Factbook

Citation Style (By Discipline)

Conducting Research

CUL Gateway: MLA citation style

Designing Documents with a Word Processor

Documenting Electronic Resources

Documenting Electronic Resources (By Discipline)

The Electronic Researcher

The Elements of Style (Online Full-Text Version)

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Evaluating Sources of Information

Examples of Plagiarism

Gathering and Presenting Statistical Data-- Gallery of Data Visualization

Getting Started in Research:  Keeping a Research Journal

The Graduate School : Managing Your Time

How to Choose a Research Method:  A Quick and Dirty Guide (PDF)

Howtostudy.org

Internet Citation Guides:  Citing Electronic Sources in Research Papers & Bibliographies

Getting Started in Research:  Keeping a Research Journal

Martindale's The Reference Desk

The Model Documents Gallery

Organization Tips for New Grad Students

Overcoming Procrastination

Phd Thesis Research:  Where Do I Start?

Planning in Grad School

PowerPoint FAQs

Preparing Effective Charts and Graphics (tutorial)

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Fatal Flaws & Pitfalls in Grant Writing

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement

Staying on Track: Time Management for PhD Students

Study Guides and Strategies

Taking a Byte Out of the Archives:  Making Technology Work For You

Time Management Advice

Time Management Skills

Time Management Weekly Schedule (Printable)

Time Management

Tips for Successful Writing Groups

Tips for Successful Writing Groups

The Web Center for Social Research Methods

Web Search Tools (e.g., Google, Wikipedia, etc.)

Writing a Lab Report

Writing a Memorandum

Writing Productivity Problems

Writing Up Research : The Guide Book


PDF

Academic Honesty, Plagiarism, and Cheating:  A Self-Instruction Guide for Post-Graduates (PDF)

Physics at Minnesota: After the First Year

Budgeting Your Research

Career Basics: Advice & Resources for Scientists

The Career Resource Guide for Graduate and Professional Students (PDF)

Center for Teaching & Learning at Univ of Chicago

Constructing a Syllabus:  A Handbook for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Teaching Fellows (PDF)

Course and Syllabus Design Template (PDF)

Cover & Thank-You Letters (PDF)

Cover Letters Guidebook (PDF)

Does Having a Spouse Slow You Down?? (PDF)

Do's and Don'ts for Responding to Complaints About Your Behavior (PDF)

Facilitating Discussion:  A Brief Guide (Cornell) (PDF)

Resolving Grad Student/ Faculty Conflicts:  Establishing Good Relationships with Faculty (PDF)

Finding the Perfect Postdoc for You (PDF)

Navigating the First Year of Graduate School

Stress Relief:  Yoga, Meditation, and Other Relaxation Techniques

Getting the Most Out of Graduate School (PDF)

Graduate Game Plan: Overcoming Common Barriers

The Graduate Student Guide to Teaching at Yale University (PDF)

Graduate Supervision: Guidelines for Students, Faculty, and Administrators (PDF)

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal

Guide to Informational Interviewing (PDF)

Guide to Writing Letters (PDF)

Guide to Writing Resumes (PDF)

Harvard University Teaching Fellows Handbook (PDF)

How to Choose a Research Method:  A Quick and Dirty Guide (PDF)

How to Get a Teaching Job at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PDF)

How to Get the Mentoring You Want (A Downloadable Handbook from U of Michigan) (PDF)

How to Give a Good Talk(PDF)

How to Give an Academic Talk:  Changing the Culture of Public Speaking in the Humanities(PDF)

How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science:  A Speaker's Guide for Students(PDF)

How to Survive the Dissertation (PDF)

How to Survive Your First Year of Grad School in Economics (PDF)

How to Transform a Scholarly Presentation into a Public Talk (PDF)

How to Write a Cover Letter

How to Write a Dissertation (or Bedtime Reading for Those Who Don't Have Time to Sleep)

Indispensable Reference for Teachers of First-Year Writing Seminars (Cornell) (PDF)(PDF)

Informal Strategies for Responding to Sexual Harassment (PDF)

The Insider's Guide to Graduate Education (PDF)

Job Search Resume Samples (Arts and Letters) (PDF)

Job Search Resume Samples (Arts and Letters) (PDF)

Key to Writing (and Advising) the One-Draft Thesis (PDF)

Life of a Graduate Student (PDF)

A Literature Review:  A Few Thoughts On Conducting It

The Model Documents Gallery

MSU Guide to Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflicts Between Faculty and Graduate Students (PDF)

MSU Research Mentoring Handbook (PDF)

Online Teaching (PDF)

Part-Time Working Mothers:  No Longer the Underground of Science (PDF)

Preparing a Teaching Portfolio(PDF)

Promoting a Culture of Teaching:  The Teaching Portfolio(PDF)

Resources for Writing and Publishing Philosophy (PDF)

Resume Template (PDF)

Sample Job Search Documents

Sample Resumes

Samples of Dissertation Proposals

The Seven Challenges Workbook and Reader:  Cooperative Communication Skills for Success at Home and Work –Full Online text in PDF

Strategies for Writing Persuasive Proposals in the Humanities (PDF)

Talking With a Professor About a Grade (PDF)

Teaching at Columbia (PDF)

Thinking About Your Thesis: Essential Questions Techniques and Tips the MA or PhD Candidate Could Ask of a Thesis in Preparation (PDF)

This is Not An Article:  Just Some Thoughts on How to Write One (PDF)

Time Management & Family Issues (PDF)

Tips on Talks:  How to Keep the Audience Attentive, Alert, and Around for the Conclusion of a Scientific Meeting

Twenty-One Steps to a Proposal (PDF)

Want to Manage Your Time? Get Real

What's Your Teaching Philosophy? Questions to Ask Yourself (PDF)

Writing a Letter:  A Tool for Conflict Resolution (PDF)

Writing and Presenting Your Dissertation or Thesis

Writing Samples for the Job Search (PDF)

Writing Successful Covering Letters for Unsolicited Journal Articles (PDF)

Writing the Empirical Journal Article (PDF)

Online Tutorial

The Art of Grantsmanship

APA citation style

APA Formatting and Style Guide

The Art of Grantsmanship

Article Review Process:  Seeing Your Work Into Print

Assembling your Application Materials

Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial

Bare Bones 101:  A Basic Tutorial for Searching the Web

Budgeting Your Research

Citation Style (By Discipline)

Creating Effective Poster Presentations

CUL Gateway: MLA citation style

Cutting Edge Online Course Design Tutorial (PDF)

Designing Documents with a Word Processor

Developing and Writing Grant Proposals

The Dissertation Calculator

Documenting Electronic Resources

Documenting Electronic Resources (By Discipline)

Documenting your teaching

Creating Effective Poster Presentations

The Electronic Researcher

Evaluating Sources of Information

Fatal Flaws & Pitfalls in Grant Writing

FSU Online Teaching Workshop Archive (Viewable as Presentation)

Graduate Game Plan: Overcoming Common Barriers

Grant Proposals (or Give Me the Money!)

Introduction to Effective Visuals (Online Tutorial)s

Introduction to Preparing Talks (Online Tutorial)

Job-Hunting Correspondence:  Guidelines and Samples

No-Sweat Speaking

Planning a Career After Graduate School (from the MLA)

PowerPoint FAQs

Preparing Effective Charts and Graphics (tutorial)

Preparing For an Academic Career in the Geosciences

Preparing Presentation Slides: A Tutorial by John Battalio

Preparing to Teach (Carleton College)

Proposal Budgeting Basics (Online Tutorial)

Proposal Writing Short Course (Online tutorial)

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Submitting a Grant Proposal:  Risks, Benefits, & How to Succeed

Teaching Portfolio Workshop

The UCEA Job Search Handbook

Writing the Proposal (Online Tutorial)

Writing Up Research : The Guide Book


Michigan State Source

Resolving Grad Student/ Faculty Conflicts:  Establishing Good Relationships with Faculty (PDF)

Michigan State University Libraries - Grants and Related Resources

How to Survive the Dissertation (PDF)

MSU Guide to Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflicts Between Faculty and Graduate Students (PDF)

MSU Research Mentoring Handbook (PDF)


Teaching Resources

101 THINGS YOU CAN DO THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF CLASS

Balancing Strategies for Graduates Students Who Teach

Carnegie Foundation's Gallery of Teaching & Learning

Center for Teaching & Learning at Univ of Chicago

Center for Teaching & Learning (Stanford Univ)-- Teaching Handouts

Center for Teaching Excellence at U of Kansas

Columbia University Online Teaching Manual

Constructing a Syllabus:  A Handbook for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, and Teaching Fellows (PDF)

Course and Syllabus Design Template (PDF)

Curricular Resources in English as a Second Language

Cutting Edge Online Course Design Tutorial (PDF)

Dave's ESL Cafe

Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (Harvard)

Quick Tips for Developing Your Teaching Philosophy

Developing Your Teaching Statement

Documenting your teaching

Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence

ESL Monkeys: English Language Teaching,Learning Resources,ESL Jobs,Schools

Facilitating Discussion:  A Brief Guide (Cornell) (PDF)

Faculty Perspectives on Teaching

FSU Center for Teaching and Learning

FSU Online Teaching Workshop Archive (Viewable as Presentation)

Getting Ready to Teach:  Resources for Teaching Assistants

Good Teachers Wanted

Graduate Student Stipends (Chronicle of Higher Ed)

The Graduate Student Guide to Teaching at Yale University