Nov
1
I am now into the second year of my PhD program and attended a wonderful seminar last weekend about how to be a successful doctoral student and I thought I’d share my notes from that seminar — the indoctrination process:
Roles and Tasks of Doctoral Students
- Don’t begin to write until you understand conversations going on in the field.
- Develop own sense of authority and raise questions if things don’t make sense.
- Don’t justify things on the basis of authority.
- Justify things on the basis of the quality of question or evidence.
From the blog of Heather Carpenter.
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Aug
4
Don’t listen to them–you should go to grad school!
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I’m quite annoyed. Lately I’ve read three different blog posts all discrediting grad school stating its overrated. Yes, I’m biased and I’m in grad school, but here are 5 reasons why you should go to grad school… Read More
From the blog of Heather Carpenter.
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