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1000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy

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  • Shows how to succeed in today’s fluid employment environment

  • Synthesizes empirical evidence, literature reviews, and qualitative experience

  • Adapts best practices from project management

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
    2. Methodology

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 3-13
    3. Genre

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 15-37
    4. Help

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 39-45
    5. Search

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 47-61
    6. Archival Research

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 63-67
    7. Compose

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 69-77
    8. Promote

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 79-90
  3. Teaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-92
    2. Learning

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 93-105
    3. Teaching

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 107-123
  4. Service

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Committees

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 127-136
  5. Career

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Values

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 139-142
    3. Applications

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 143-157
    4. Interview

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 159-167
    5. Professional Culture

      • Amy Hildreth Chen
      Pages 169-181
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 183-202

About this book

This book is written to help readers with humanities backgrounds improve their academic research, tertiary-level teaching, professional service, and career trajectory. By utilizing 1,000+ Tips, readers can choose what skill they wish to improve by consulting a single page (for example, how to measure your impact factor). Or, with more time, readers can level up an entire area of their work by consulting one section (for example, how to promote your work). As 1,000+ Tips is designed to address the needs of readers at different points in their career, readers will be delighted to return to this concise and evergreen manual as their goals shift with their circumstances.

The book learns graduate students and new faculty members to understand the basics of pedagogical practice, and to comprehend how to serve effectively on the committees that ran their departments, universities, and professional organizations. The work synthesizes empirical evidence, comprehensive literature reviews, and qualitative experience.

Each chapter has a page-length overview of the subject. Each content chapter is divided into sections and each section populated by single page topics. The single page topic provides a summary and takeaways in bullet point format. Readers may be graduate students, early career faculty, independent scholars, postdoctoral fellows, lecturers, or in many other positions in or surrounding the university. 



Keywords

  • early-career academic
  • humanities research
  • library research tips
  • alt-ac career development
  • leaving academia
  • serving on committees
  • writing a monograph
  • writing a humanities article
  • college teaching tips
  • making a professional website
  • professional development
  • improve your teaching
  • scholarly impact
  • SMART goals
  • remote students
  • best practices for learning
  • remote learning
  • undergraduates’ success
  • undergraduates’ personalities

Authors and Affiliations

  • North Liberty, USA

    Amy Hildreth Chen

About the author

Amy Hildreth Chen received her PhD in 2013 from Emory University in English. She accepted a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alabama, where she worked in Special Collections from 2013-2015. Chen then served as Special Collections Instruction Librarian from 2015-2017 and English and Communication Librarian from 2017-2020 at the University of Iowa. In 2020, she became an independent scholar, leaving the academy to become the Manager of Medical Publications at JMI Laboratories (now Element Materials Technology) in North Liberty, Iowa. Her book, Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market, was published in June 2020 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Chen is married with one child.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: 1000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy

  • Authors: Amy Hildreth Chen

  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06497-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06499-9Published: 17 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06497-5Published: 31 October 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2366-7672

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 202

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Life Skills, Research Skills, Teaching and Teacher Education, Career Skills

Buy it now

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eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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