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Becoming an academic : how to get through grad school and beyond / Inger Mewburn.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Description: viii, 253 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421428802
  • 1421428806
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1/55 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2371 .M49 2019
Contents:
Becoming the thesis whisperer Being academic? Being productive Being a writer Being employed (or not...) Being political
Summary: Welcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. but Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran of the university gig economy, Mewburn, managing editor of the blog The Thesis Whisperer, is perfectly placed to reflect on her experience and offer a wealth of practical strategies to survive and thrive
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) LB2371 .M49 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000194927

Includes bibliographical references (page 243-245) and index.


Becoming the thesis whisperer
Being academic?
Being productive
Being a writer
Being employed (or not...)
Being political

Welcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. but Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran of the university gig economy, Mewburn, managing editor of the blog The Thesis Whisperer, is perfectly placed to reflect on her experience and offer a wealth of practical strategies to survive and thrive

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