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Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Try. (Academic Writing and The Force)
The best piece of advice about writing that I got as a graduate student came from my external Ph.D. committee member, a full professor in the English department. A poet and a romantic and undoubtedly a former or current pot … Continue reading
Posted in How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Teaching and Research Statements, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
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What is Assertiveness, for Women?
(Friday Post Category: Yes, You Can: Women in Academia) I get so frustrated when I see the female students and colleagues I work with sabotage themselves and undermine their own authority and effectiveness because of an inability to be assertive. … Continue reading
Posted in Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
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The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make in Academic Settings
I frequently offer the workshop: “Yes You Can! Women and Graduate School.” It’s a workshop I’ve led quite a few times in different forms, formally and informally, over the course of my 15 years in academia. I created it, and … Continue reading
Posted in Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia
Tagged dominant and submissive female body language, female self assertiveness, teaching women to be self confident, top 5 mistakes for women, women succeeding in graduate school
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