How to Succeed in Academics, 2nd edition

✍ Scribed by Linda L. McCabe; Edward R.B. McCabe

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition of How to Succeed in Academics provides up-to-date mentoring on all aspects of a successful academic career, particularly a career in the sciences. Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe bring decades of expertise and experience to such topics as marketing your ideas through posters, talks, manuscripts, and grant proposals; developing strategies for applying, interviewing, and negotiating for training programs and jobs; establishing professional networks and seeking leadership opportunities; improving your teaching, speaking, and writing skills; and setting goals and creating schedules to achieve them.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter 1. Choosing a Mentor
Chapter 2. Preparing for Graduate or Professional School
Chapter 3. Preparing an Abstract for a Professional Meeting
Chapter 4. Presenting at Professional Meetings
Chapter 5. Marketing Your Ideas through Publications
Chapter 6. Gender Issues
Chapter 7. Underrepresented Groups
Chapter 8. Preparing for Postgraduate or Postprofessional Training
Chapter 9. Applying for, Negotiating, and Choosing a Job
Chapter 10. Developing Time Management Skills and Short-Term and Long-Term Goals
Chapter 11. Developing Your Grant-Writing Skills
Chapter 12. Developing Your Teaching Skills
Chapter 13. Developing Your Leadership Skills
Chapter 14. Conflicts of Interest
Chapter 15. Human Subjects Research
Chapter 16. Research with Animals
Chapter 17. Data and Sample Management
Chapter 18. Ethical Behavior
INDEX