Graduate Student Guidebook - From Orientation to Tenure Track

A roadmap to the grad school experience, this guide features expert advice on many different steps and challengesthat students encounter in master's and doctoral programs. Conversational chapters integrate advice, encouragement, and anecdotes to address specific components of the grad school process.

Table des matières

Introduction: On Being a Grad Student, Katherine A. Foss
1 Climbing the Next Rung: Making the Transition to Graduate Student, James Stewart
2 "This Is Kind of Like Your Superpower": Double-Consciousness,Micro-Activism and Other Survival Strategies of Students on the Margins, Meredith D. Clark
3 Graduate Student Decisions, Susan Keith
4 Getting the Most Out of Your Graduate Assistantship, Amanda Sturgill
5 The Mindful Thesis or Dissertation: Finding the Focus to Write, Jan Lauren Boyles
6 Making Sense of (and Making the Most of) Academic Conferences, Jennifer Greer
7 Publishing as a Graduate Student, Denise Sevick Bortree and Richard D. Waters
8 Navigating the Job Market: Basic Mechanics and Peculiarities, David D. Perlmutter
9 The Degree and the Job Are Yours. What's Next? Successfully Transitioning from Student to Professor, Marie Hardin
Glossary of Academic Terms

A propos de l'auteur

Katherine A. Foss is a professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee University. She is the head of the AEJMC Council of Divisions. Foss previously edited Beyond Princess Culture: Gender and Children’s Marketing (2019) and Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations (2018). She is also the author of Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory (2020), Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (2017), and Television and Health Responsibility in an Age of Individualism (2014).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: The AEJMC Board of Directors, Katherine A Foss, Katherine A. Foss, Katherine A. (EDT) Foss, The AEJMC Board of Directors, The AEJMC The AEJMC Board of Directors, the Aejmc Board of D The Aejmc Board of Directors
• Collaboration: Katherine A. Foss (Editeur), Foss Katherine A. (Editeur)
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781538141298
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4129-8
• Pages: 168
• Thèmes: Master Class: Resources for Te; Master Class: Resources for Teaching Mass Communication
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Pédagogie > Enseignement; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Général, dictionnaires; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher