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Additional Readings for Reference
Writing
and Speaking
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Joan Bolker, Writing Your
Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and
Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company,
Inc, 1998). [Don’t count on the 15 minutes of the title, but Wendy Guild
says it is, nevertheless, very useful.]
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Gordon B. Davis and Clyde A. Parker,
Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach, 2nd ed.
(Barron’s Educational Series, 1997).
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Lawrence F. Locke, Waneen Wyrick
Spriduso, and Stephen J. Silverman, Proposals that Work: A
Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals (Sage
Publications, 1993).
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Lisa M. Lynch, "How to Survive
a Seminar Presentation," American Economic Association Newsletter
(October 1993). http://www.denison.edu/economics/cswep/newsletter.html
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Walter Nash, ed., The Writing
Scholar: Studies in Academic Discourse (Sage Publications, 1990).
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Martin Nystrand, What
Writers Know: The Language, Process, and Structure of Written Discourse
(Academic Press, 1982).
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John Van Maanen, Tales of
the Field: On Writing Ethnography (University of Chicago Press,
1988).
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Joseph Williams, Style:
Toward Clarity and Grace (University of Chicago Press, 1990). [The
best book on style that I’ve ever seen—well worth reading and having on
your shelf.]
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Eviatar Zerubavel, The Clockwork
Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books.
[Listed on Amazon.Com as to be published in May. Zerubavel’s Hidden
Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life is a great scholarly
book, and well written, so I expect this to be good.]
Teaching
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Robert Boice, First-Order
Principles for College Teachers (Anker, 1996).
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C. Roland Christensen, David A.
Garvin, and Ann Sweet, Education for Judgment (Harvard Business
School Press, 1991).
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C. Roland Christensen with Abby
J. Hansen, Teaching and the Case Method (Harvard Business
School Press, 1987).
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Nancy Rule Goldberger, Blythe
McVicker Clinchy, Mary Field Belenky, and Jill Mattuck Tarule, "Women's
Ways of Knowing," in Phillip Shaver and Clyde Hendrick, eds., Sex
and Gender: Review of Personality and Social Psychology (Sage
Publications, 1987), pp. 201-227.
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Barbara Gross Davis, Tools
for Teaching (Jossey-Bass, 1993).
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Gerald Weinstein and Kathy Obear,
"Bias Issues in the Classroom: Encounters with the Teaching Self,"
in Maurianne Adams, ed., Promoting Diversity in College Classrooms:
Innovative Responses for the Curriculum, Faculty, and Institutions 52
(Winter 1992): 39-50.
Career
and Research Issues
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Rae Andre and Peter J. Frost,
eds. Researchers Hooked on Teaching : Noted Scholars Discuss
Synergies of Teaching and Research. Sage Publications, 1996.
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Paula J. Caplan, Lifting
a Ton of Feathers: A Woman’s Guide to Surviving in the Academic World.
University of Toronto Press, 1995.
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Peter J. Frost and Ralph E. Stablein,
eds., Doing Exemplary Research, Sage Publications, 1992.
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Peter J. Frost and M. Susan Taylor,
eds., Rhythms of Academic Life: Personal Accounts of Careers in Academia.
Sage Publications, 1996.
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