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Category Archives: Being a scholar

Interesting posts from other blogs…

September 23, 2011

A couple of other blogs had posts this week that caught my attention and that I wanted to share.  Both …

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Project Management for Academics – An Introduction

July 18, 2011

One of the interesting things that comes with a 20 year pre-PhD career is experience in  areas that most academics …

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A framework for a coherent research platform

June 26, 2011

When I first started looking in to student and academic productivity, one of the first bloggers I stumbled upon was …

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Journal articles vs. Conference proposals

June 1, 2011

I’ve been debating lately whether I want to submit any more conference proposals, and more specifically whether I want to …

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Lesson 1: There is a reason for the 50% graduation rate

May 3, 2011

Only 50% of doctoral students graduate. Having gone through the process, this is no longer surprising. I wrote once before …

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What now?

April 30, 2011

So…defense is done, revisions are approved, all paperwork is turned in and my dissertation has been filed with the publishing …

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The good, the bad, and the ugly

February 23, 2011

The Good: My chair got back to me with comments on the results chapter, and overall felt that the analysis …

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Four more books

November 17, 2010

Another blogger wrote a post on their top five books to help with a PhD.  One was on my list, …

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Misaligned expectations

November 10, 2010

Yesterday was my dissertation proposal review.  As longer-time readers will know, I completed the proposal (which is essentially the intro, …

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Mendeley, Part II

November 3, 2010

I’m as bad as anyone else.  Sometimes procrastination just happens, and some of it happened this weekend.  I started playing …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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