1000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy - Paperback

by Amy Hildreth Chen (Author)

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 empiricalevidence, 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.

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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.

Author Biography

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.