Professional Development
Useful links for Sociology Graduate Students
American Sociological Association Academic & Professional Resources
Blogs on Academia
- Conditionally Accepted: A space for scholars on the margins of academia
- Get a Life, Phd: By sociologist Tonya Golash-Boza with many articles with practical advice about planning, writing, and much more
- The Professor is In: The truth about grad school, the job market, and tenure
Writing an Academic Article
Collected Wisdom
- Choosing Your Dissertation Committee: Advice on relationships that will mentor your career.
- Booklet on Writing for Research: Raewyn Connell put this 42 page booklet together, which has advice on principles and practice. Booklet can be downloaded from www.raewynconnell.net
- Three Keys for Graduate School Success: https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1560
- How to be a good advisee: The two-sided process of building a long-term relationship
- https://sociologicalconfessions.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/how-to-be-a-good-advisee/
- The Elevator Pitch: Presenting Your Research in Conversation
- The Life Course of a Paper: UW-Madison Postdoc Katherine Lin prepared this guide to writing a paper.
- How to respond to reviewers: Scientists offer advice on how best to respond to reviewers
- Professional presentations: Nature Careers column: Pressure to perform: Talks offer scientists a chance to show off their own work, but it is difficult to make an impact
Tomorrow’s Professor Articles
- How to Have More Time
- Becoming a Job Candidate: The Timetable for Your Search
- Perfectionist Gridlock: Eight Ways to Get Unstuck
- Choosing a Dissertation Topic
- Contending with Reviewer’s Comments (about research proposals)
- Finding a Dissertation Support Group
- Ten Simple Rules to Combine Teaching and Research
- Twenty Steps to Writing a Research Article
- What Do We Mean by “Writing”
- Riding Out Rejection – How to Navigate the Choppy Waters of Scientific Publication