So You Want to Be a Professor?: A Handbook for Graduate Students
- ISBN-10
- 0761918973
- ISBN-13
- 9780761918974
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 197
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- P. Aarne Vesilind
Description
This guide for graduate students shows you how to get an academic job and, more importantly, how to succeed in it. With chapters on teaching, testing, advising, researching and publishing, the book provides everything you need to know to pursue a successful academic career.
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