GRAD SCHOOL ESSENTIALS: A CRASH COURSE IN SCHOLARLY SKILLS
Author: Zachary Shore
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0520288300
What’s the hardest part of grad school? It’s not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It’s that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Professor Zachary Shore aims to change this. With humorous, lively prose, Professor Shore teaches you to master the five most crucial skills you need to succeed: how to read, write, speak, act, and research at a higher level. Each chapter in this no-nonsense guide outlines a unique approach to acquiring a skill and then demonstrates how to enhance it.
ACADEMIC WRITING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: ESSENTIAL TASKS AND SKILLS
Authors: John M. Swales & Christine B. Feak
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN-13: 978-0472034758
Like its predecessor, the third edition of Academic Writing for Graduate Students explains understanding the intended audience, the purpose of the paper, and academic genres; includes the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; shows how to write summaries and critiques; features Language Focus sections that address linguistic elements as they affect the wider rhetorical objectives; and helps students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities. Among the many changes in the third edition, there are newer, longer, and more authentic texts and examples and a more corpus-informed content.
CRITICAL READING AND WRITING FOR POSTGRADUATES
Authors: Mike Wallace & Alison Wray
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1529727647
Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral presentations, this proven guide helps you develop a reflective and advanced critical approach to your research and writing. A Companion Website provides additional resources to help you apply the critical techniques you learn. From templates and checklists, access to SAGE journal articles and additional case studies, these free resources will make sure you successfully master advanced critical skills.
THE LATINX GUIDE TO GRADUATE SUCCESS
Authors: Genevieve Negró-Gonzales & Magdalena L. Barrera
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-1478019671
In The Latinx Guide to Graduate Success, the authors provide prospective and current Latinx graduate students in the humanities and social sciences fields with a roadmap for surviving and thriving in advanced-degree programs. They document the unwritten rules of graduate education that impact Latinx students, demystifying and clarifying the essential requirements for navigating graduate school. Topics range from identifying the purpose of graduate research, finding the right program, and putting together a strong application to developing a graduate student identity, cultivating professional and personal relationships, and mapping out a post--graduate school career.
FRANZ KAFKA: NARRATION, RHETORIC, AND READING
Editors: Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg & Ronald Speirs
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN-13: 9780814251775
Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka’s original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold, Anniken Greve, Gerhard Kurz, Jakob Lothe, J. Hillis Miller, Gerhard Neumann, James Phelan, Beatrice Sandberg, Ronald Speirs, and Benno Wagner examine a number of provocative questions arising from Kafka’s narratives and method of narration. The arguments of the essays relate both to the peculiarities of Kafka’s story-telling and to general issues in narrative theory.
THE REAL, THE TRUE, AND THE TOLD
Author: Eric L. Berlatsky
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN-13: 9780814256145
In this volume, Eric L. Berlatsky intervenes in contemporary debates over the problems of historical reference in a postmodern age. It does so through an examination of postmodern literary practices and their engagement with the theorization of history. The book looks at the major figures of constructivist historiography and at postmodern fiction (and memoir) that explicitly presents and/or theorizes “history.” It does so in order to suggest that reading such fiction can intervene substantially in debates over historical reference and the parallel discussion of redefining contemporary ethics.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURES AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE SELF
Author: Matthew Clark
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN-13: 9780814255063
This volume offers a new way of thinking about the interrelation of character and plot. Clark investigates the characters in a narrative, considering them structured sets corresponding to various manifestations of the self. The shape and structure of these sets can be thought of as narrative geometry and various geometries imply various theories of the self. Throughout, the discussion is concerned with practical analysis of specific narratives and with developing an understanding of the self that moves beyond the simple dichotomy of the self and the other, the subject and the object.
NARRATIVE CAUSALITIES
Author: Emma Kafalenos
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN-13: 9780814252529
Narrative Causalities offers both an argument and a methodology. The argument is that interpretations of the consequences and causes of events are contextual and that narratives, by determining the context in which events are perceived, shape interpretations. The methodology, on which the argument is based, is a theory of functions. A function, in this theory, is a position in a causal sequence. A set of functions provides a vocabulary to analyze and compare interpretations of the causes and consequences of events—in our world, in narratives about our world, and in fictional narratives.
