Professional development in applied linguistics : a guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Plonsky, Luke (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Professional Development in Applied Linguistics
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1. On the state of professional development in applied linguistics
  • What does this book have to offer?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2. Demystifying the process: Choosing, applying to, and getting accepted to a doctoral program in applied linguistics
  • Introduction
  • Choosing programs
  • Applying
  • Getting accepted and accepting an offer
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Navigating graduate school and academia: Key questions and answers
  • Advising
  • Choosing an advisor
  • Interviewing prospective advisors (and other advisees)
  • Balancing senior, mid-career, or junior scholars as advisors and committee members
  • Co-advising: The best of both worlds or a multitude of sins?
  • What about when you have no choice?
  • Problems: What happens when it's not working?
  • Academic life in a Ph.D. program
  • RA Jobs
  • Department reading or working groups
  • Professional organizations
  • Developing your CV
  • Social media
  • A note of caution
  • Teaching experience
  • Manuscript editing
  • Navigating department or committee politics
  • Putting it out there: Conferences
  • What conferences should I submit to?
  • Where can I get feedback on my abstract?
  • How will I fund my travel to the conference?
  • What sort of logistical issues should I plan for in delivering my paper?
  • How can I make the best of networking at a conference?
  • Putting it out there: Publishing
  • When you should start thinking about publishing
  • Where should you publish
  • How to get published
  • Rejection, or is it?
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Making the most of your applied linguistics conference experience: Things to do before, during and after the event
  • Introduction
  • Before the conference
  • During the conference
  • After the conference
  • Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 5. Towards achieving work-life balance in academia: Comments and personal essays from six applied linguists
  • Introduction
  • Theme 1: The blessing and curse of having a flexible schedule
  • Theme 2: Efficiency strategies
  • Theme 3: Boundary-setting
  • Theme 4: Kids
  • Theme 5: Sacrifices, and trade-offs, and priorities
  • Managing work-life balance: The rule that saved both my sanity and my social life
  • What I've learned about being an academic
  • Achieving a life-work balance: What teacher training (and my children) taught me
  • Living on the periphery: Cause of despair or source of hope?
  • About me
  • How to cope with disadvantages
  • Conclusion
  • Work-life balance: My work-in-progress
  • References
  • Chapter 6. Towards the successful completion of a doctoral dissertation
  • The pre-enrolment period
  • The provisional enrolment period