Your Career Development
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Developing a Winning Grant Proposal
In a world of tightening budgets and increased competition for grant money, Developing a Winning Grant Proposal provides the guidelines, strategies, plans, and techniques to craft a fundable grant proposal. A user-friendly, engaging, and up-to-date guide, this book covers the entire process from...
Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals
Strategies for getting published
It’s not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider’s perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is...
Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Becoming a Successful Early Career Researcher
Not that long ago there were fairly clear divisions between researchers at different stages throughout their career, starting with doctoral students then progressing to postdoctoral workers and finishing with academic staff. However, more recently the term Early Career Researcher (ECR) has been...
Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Paying the Professoriate
A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts
How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...
Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Unlikely Allies in the Academy
Women of Color and White Women in Conversation
Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative to expose their stories, which are at times messy and always candid. However, the contributors work through the...
Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Becoming a New Instructor
A Guide for College Adjuncts and Graduate Students
Becoming a New Instructor guides new instructors through the planning, preparation, and execution of their first class, whether it is in person or online. Like any good mentor, this book provides clear, simple instructions and makes best-practice recommendations. Becoming a New Instructor provides...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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Tools for Dossier Success
A Guide for Promotion and Tenure
Tools for Dossier Success demystifies the dossier process from start to finish. Written for faculty members at different points in their academic trajectory, this is a practical, step-by-step guide to planning, creating, and polishing the best possible representation of accumulated evidence and...
Published April 18th 2010 by Routledge
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Giving a Lecture
From Presenting to Teaching, 2nd Edition
Series: Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education
The second edition of Giving a Lecture builds upon the reputation and success of the Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education series. It is an excellent resource for those new to teaching at the University and College level and for those who just want to reflect upon and refresh...
Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
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The Educational Potential of e-Portfolios
Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning
Series: Connecting with E-learning
E-portfolios are a valuable learning and assessment tool. They can serve as an administrative tool to manage and organise work, to present course assignments and act as the medium for learners to record their learning goals, outcomes and achievements. They encourage personal...
Published April 19th 2007 by Routledge
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The Lecturer's Toolkit
A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching, 3rd Edition
The Lecturer’s Toolkit is the primary resource for all teachers in higher education, whatever their experience, who are seeking to improve their teaching skills. Developed around detailed, practical guidance on the core elements of effective teaching in HE, it is packed full of accessible...
Published August 30th 2006 by Routledge
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Learning Journals
A Handbook for Reflective Practice and Professional Development, 2nd Edition
Fully updated with important new theory and practical material, this second edition of Learning Journals offers guidance on keeping and using journals and gives step-by-step advice on integrating journal writing on taught courses, in training and professional development and in supporting personal...
Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
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Developing Your Teaching
Ideas, Insight and Action
Series: Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education
For new as well as more experienced lecturers, this motivational book is packed with accessible and practical advice, grounded in learning theory. The authors show how to take a step back, reflect on your current practice and take measures to improve it. A wide range of creative and innovative...
Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge