Overview
- Shows how to succeed in today’s fluid employment environment
- Synthesizes empirical evidence, literature reviews, and qualitative experience
- Adapts best practices from project management
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Research
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Front Matter
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Service
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Career
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Back Matter
Keywords
- early-career academic
- humanities research
- library research tips
- alt-ac career development
- leaving academia
- serving on committees
- writing a monograph
- writing a humanities article
- college teaching tips
- making a professional website
- professional development
- improve your teaching
- scholarly impact
- SMART goals
- remote students
- best practices for learning
- remote learning
- undergraduates’ success
- undergraduates’ personalities
About this book
This book is written to help readers with humanities backgrounds improve their academic research, tertiary-level teaching, professional service, and career trajectory. By utilizing 1,000+ Tips, readers can choose what skill they wish to improve by consulting a single page (for example, how to measure your impact factor). Or, with more time, readers can level up an entire area of their work by consulting one section (for example, how to promote your work). As 1,000+ Tips is designed to address the needs of readers at different points in their career, readers will be delighted to return to this concise and evergreen manual as their goals shift with their circumstances.
The book learns graduate students and new faculty members to understand the basics of pedagogical practice, and to comprehend how to serve effectively on the committees that ran their departments, universities, and professional organizations. The work synthesizes empiricalevidence, comprehensive literature reviews, and qualitative experience.
Each chapter has a page-length overview of the subject. Each content chapter is divided into sections and each section populated by single page topics. The single page topic provides a summary and takeaways in bullet point format. Readers may be graduate students, early career faculty, independent scholars, postdoctoral fellows, lecturers, or in many other positions in or surrounding the university.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 1000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy
Authors: Amy Hildreth Chen
Series Title: Springer Texts in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06497-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06499-9Published: 17 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06497-5Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2366-7672
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 202
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Life Skills, Research Skills, Teaching and Teacher Education, Career Skills