Writing Guides and Tips
- The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
- Harvard’s Guide to Using Sources
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
- Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
- Why you should use paper to take notes in class
- How to Read a Book, v5.0. Paul N. Edwards
How to Impress Your Professor
- Grading Rubric for a Term Paper (in most disciplines)
- E-mail advice: why you need a subject line
- How to E-mail Your Professor
- Top 10 Hate Crimes Against Professors
- Professors’ Pet Peeves
Guidelines for requesting a Letter of Recommendation
Career Advice and Counter-Advice
- Dean Spade,”For Those Considering Law School”
- Low End Theory, A Love Letter to Radical Graduate Students, Present, Former, Future: Part One
- How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree
- Giving Employers What They Don’t Really Want
- What You Can Do With a Degree in Anthropology
- This is Anthropology: Anthropological Careers
On Going to Graduate School
- Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s guide to professionalization from pre-grad school on through
- Karen Kelsky (“The Professor Is In”), “Should You Go To Graduate School?”
- Rebecca Schuman, “Thesis Hatement: Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor”
- Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Blanket ‘Don’t Go To Graduate School!’ Advice Ignores Race and Reality”
- Jonathan Senchyne, “Working Classes“
- William Pannapacker, “Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go”
- 100 Reasons Not to Go to Grad School blog
- Keguro Macharia, “On Getting a Ph.D.” and “On Quitting”
- Audrey Williams June, “The Cost of a Ph.D.: Students Report Hefty Debt Across Many Fields”
- Pete Coviello, “Love in the Ruins: Or, Should I Go to Grad School?‘
- Un-Hired Ed: The Growing Adjunct Crisis (infographic on the decline in tenure-track jobs)
- Jordan Weissmann, “The Ever-Shrinking Role of Tenured College Professors (in 1 Chart)”