Bücher der Reihe Survival Skills for Scholars

Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee. It explains how to get on certain committees and avoid others, how to get committee work done efficiently, how to ensure that your views are properly represented, how chairing a committee can help direct its outcome, and how to use committees to advance your academic career.

This brief, practical guide illustrates the most common kinds of business correspondence that a university professor is required to produce and offers useful advice to make these communications as effective as possible. The author also offers general suggestions on effective writing, including brainstorming and collaborating, persuasion, outlining and revising, and designing documents.

This useful book outlines the chief forms and major causes of academic stress. Practical advice shows how to distinguish negative from positive stress and how to deal with negative stressors in life and at work. The book includes exercises to help the academic understand how stress affects him or her, as well as forms to help design programmes for coping with stress.

This useful guide explains the workings of the press and other media, and gives concrete, practical advice on how to work with them effectively. The authors provide examples of all likely media situations and offer clear directions for handling them, showing academics how to use the media rather than be used by them.

This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure. The authors explain the agenda of tenure decisions, emphasizing the need to think politically and focus attention on the priorities of the decision makers.

The authors of this volume, all experienced teachers and administrators, outline how to teach in a multicultural environment. They suggest classroom strategies, curriculum reforms and assessment tools that work for all students.

This practical book guides the reader through the potentially problematic areas of academic ethics. Recognizing the political and legal, as well as moral, dimensions of ethical questions, the authors offer strategies to help deal with many of the ethical dilemmas that may arise during an academic career.

An instruction on the art of delivering effective presentations, which discusses the principles of effective communication in all forms of academic presenations, including lectures, papers, symposia, speeches, research proposals and conferences, and which guides readers on various techniques and questions they should address.

In this useful and practical book, Elisa Carbone offers a wealth of sound advice on how to deal with a large class, from the first day to end of term evaluations. Full of examples taken from many different disciplines, Teaching Large Classes will be an ideal companion for any teacher facing the challenge of the large introductory class.

Using vivid examples, classroom strategies, teaching tips and feedback tools, this book demonstrates how to improve teaching skills. Weimer dissects the elements of good teaching - enthusiasm, organization, clarity, among others - and emphasizes that good teaching can come in a variety of guises.

Explains the book publishing process. This title explains how to prepare a book proposal, how to respond to reviews and how to secure a contract. It offers coverage of contracts, book production and promotion.

Offering an insider's view of the subject, this practical guide demystifies the process of publishing in scholarly journals. The author explains how to increase the chances of having articles accepted, how to market published articles and how to achieve a consistent level of productive publishing.

Using examples, checklists and exercises, this book shows how to develop, use and grade classroom examinations. It provides a step-by-step discussion of general testing and grading issues, including: deciding on the content of an exam; assessing difficulty levels; and writing different kinds of test items; and scoring different test items.

In this brief and practical guide to entering the academic job market, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker guide readers through the basics of job searching. They provide advice on a number of key factors including interview preparation and presentation.

This useful guide demystifies the conference process. The author, a professional meetings planner with 25 years experience, addresses all aspects of conference planning including: programme planning; budgeting; finding a location; advertising; and finding speakers and entertainment.