Professional development in applied linguistics : a guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty /
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2020.
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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