The way to grow grand
is not to demand.
In life's every field
you are what you yield.
— Piet Hein
The course syllabus. (The syllabus is publicly available, but the destinations of the links contained therein are only accessible to students enrolled in the course on a course-dedicated Google Drive).
Materials
We will be drawing from 1) two book volumes, 2) a chapter available for download, and 3) two manuscripts about the computing and information science fields. Additional texts for this course will consist primarily of conference and journal publications that are all available online via university site licenses. You will need to be logged in to the university network or connected via VPN to access these articles for free.
- The CCC/CRA “Tire Tracks” document and background information
- Kelsky, K. (2015). The professor is in: The essential guide to turning your Ph. D. into a job. Three Rivers Press (CA). Select chapters as appropriate for our discipline.
- The CRA Taulbee Survey (Details about our discipline in terms of job prospects etc in the US and Canada, to supplement Kelsky perspective).
- Silvia, P. J. (2007). How to write a lot: A practical guide to productive academic writing. American Psychological Association.
- Richards, P. (2007). “Risk," a chapter by Pamela Richards in Becker, H.S. (2007). Writing for Social Scientists. The University of Chicago Press. (see syllabus for link).