How to Succeed in Academics
Paperback Engels 1999 9780124818330Samenvatting
This is a how-to book for the academic life based on more than 50 years combined personal experience and 8 years of formal group mentoring as part of a workshop on these topics. The unwritten rules of university life are shared through fictional vignettes that are all too real. Secrets to successfully achieving short-term and long-term goals are provided in the progress timelines and suggested milestones. Beginning with selecting a training program and choosing a job, this book takes the student, fellow, or faculty member through the maze of academic secrecy to a new level of understanding and empowerment.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Introductory Overview: Establishing Personal Goals and Tracking Your Career.
Selecting a Training Environment: Choosing a Training Program, Training Institution, and Mentor.
Selecting a Position in Academia: Choosing a Department, Institution, and Mentor.
Selecting Grant Opportunities: Understanding the Organization of the NIH, Other Governmental Entities, and Private Foundations.
Writing a Grant: Selecting the Specific Aims, Preparing the Budget, and Developing the Research Proposal.
Grant Review: How Review Groups Work, Responding to the Reviewers' Feedback, and Preparing the Revised Application.
Preparation of Abstracts for Scientific Meetings.
Presentations at Scientific Meetings: Preparation of Effective Slides and Posters.
The 10-Minute Talk.
The 1-Hour Talk, Including the Job Application Seminar.
Selecting a Journal: Instructions for Authors, Recommending Reviewers, and Submitting the Manuscript.
How to Write Research Papers.
How to Write Review Articles and Chapters.
Manuscript Review.
Ethical Behavior.
Leadership.
Preparing a Curriculum Vitae.
Summary: Gauging Success.
Index.
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
