Archives: Book review

Friday, September 2, 2022

Book Review: Navigating the Path to Industry

Navigating the Path to Industry A Hiring Manager's Advice for Academics Looking for a Job in Industry By M. R. Nelson Annorlunda Books, 2014 Navigating the Path to Industry is a short book that aims to demystify the basic steps academics and graduate students in the sciences need to take when conducting their first job... More

Friday, April 8, 2022

Book Review: How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble

How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble A Practical Guide By Inger Mewburn, Katherine Firth, and Shaun Lehmann Open University Press, 2019 Graduate students seeking advice on academic writing have access to a growing list of books that guide them through the process of becoming strong academic writers. Unlike many such guidebooks, which tend... More

Monday, September 14, 2020

Book Review: A PhD Is Not Enough

A PhD Is Not Enough A Guide to Survival in Science Revised Edition By Peter J. Feibelman Basic Books, 2011 First published in 1993 and revised for 2011, A PhD Is Not Enough has become a well-known guide for PhD graduates in the sciences, and for good reason. Short but carefully worded, it provides... More

Friday, June 26, 2020

Book Review: 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School

57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School  Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students  By Kevin D. Haggerty and Aaron Doyle University of Chicago Press, 2015 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School can be described as a cautionary tale of graduate school’s common pitfalls, especially those whose effects can reverberate for years. While... More

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Book Review: Work Your Career

Work Your Career Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD By Loleen Berdahl and Jonathan Malloy University of Toronto Press, 2018 The subtitle of Work Your Career may suggest that it is written primarily for humanities and social science PhD students. Though the discussion of career development focuses on issues... More

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Book Review: The Professor Is In

The Professor Is In The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD Into A Job By Karen Kelsky Three Rivers Press, 2015 PhDs who have struggled on the academic job market over the last decade may be familiar with the name Karen Kelsky. With her social media presence in support of her consulting services at... More

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Book Review: So What Are You Going to Do with That?

So What Are You Going to Do with That? Finding Careers Outside Academia Third edition By Susan Basalla & Maggie Debelius University of Chicago Press, 2014 The starting point of So What Are You Going to Do with That? is the perennial question dreaded by many graduate students: what are you planning to do after... More

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