1 / 15

Essential Tips for Success in Graduate School: Embrace Your Academic Journey

This guide offers top ten tips for graduate students aiming for success in their academic careers. From attending the university and developing a strong relationship with your adviser to managing your schedule and working efficiently, these strategies are designed to help you thrive. Emphasizing the importance of research ethics and writing skills, the guide also encourages engagement in research communities and active participation in class. Remember, these years can be some of the best in your life—make the most of them while staying focused and organized.

sheba
Télécharger la présentation

Essential Tips for Success in Graduate School: Embrace Your Academic Journey

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. welcome to 550 fall 2005

  2. top ten tips 10. attend the university 9. get a good adviser. 8. develop a good relationship with your adviser 7. work ahead 6. schedule ahead 5. schedule in detail

  3. top ten tips (cont.) 4.work more efficiently, not more 3. rub shoulders with the giants 2. the habits you develop now will be habits you carry through the rest of your academic career 1. these are the best years of your life—enjoy them

  4. research • it is the special task of the social scientist in each generation to pin down contemporary facts…[and] to realign culture’s view of [people] with present realities. • (Lee Cronbach, 1975, p. 126)

  5. research • don’t make up what you could find out. • (Howard Becker, 1996, p. 59)

  6. 4 550 themes 1. doing research • becoming a researcher—someone who tries to get beyond the obvious, past the everyday, beneathe the surface, who pins down contemporary facts, who finds it out

  7. to become a researcher • one must enter research communities • larger educational research community • research community of your area of interest • one must acquire a knowledge base in an area, research skills, attitudes, tricks of the trade, and so on • this semester: Krathwohl, Vogt, readings, guests, lectures, AERA program etc

  8. 2. research ethics • being fair • this semester: Sieber, cases, IRB material, guests 3. writing • this semester: Becker, style manuals, lectures 4. life in academia: • grad school and beyond • Ph.D research requirement, early research, other requirements etc

  9. information cards • name • local address • local phones • email • permanent address • department, adviser, year • area of interest • research specialization • on back: top left corner (lengthwise) the name by which you wish to be addressed

  10. thriving in 450 • don’t fall behind • read syllabus, schedule etc. carefully—follow directions • read and work ahead the first part of the semester • use style manual (APA or Chicago) constantly—for all classes

  11. get focused right away • select area of interest • find researchers who do good work in that area • ask people, like your adviser, other grad students etc for direction • move immediately from annotations to lit review

  12. overlap • do all the readings carefully and take good notes • get involved in class and take good notes • ask lots of questions • use the TAs • work ahead • attend discussion sessions • use my office hours

  13. grad life • pick up a copy of the News-Gazette Answer Book ($1) • E3 comes out Thursday in New-Gazette • read the DI • check out Quad Day • check out CRCE and IMPE

  14. go to a football game (Illini) • get a Krannert Center for the Performing Arts schedule • visit the Krannert Art Museum • enjoy the labor day weekend—go somewhere (last break until Thanksgiving) • on a hot night, go to the Custard Cup (on Kirby, bock west of Neil)

  15. farmers market, Saturday morning (Lincoln Square in Urbana) • Urbana Sweet Corn Festival, Friday night and Saturday, downtown Urbana • Dump and Run garage sale: Stock Pavilion, Thursday 1-9 ($2), Friday, 10-7, Saturday, 9-1

More Related