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Communication Skills for Academic Success

3-0-3 units · Graduate

Focuses on the communication skills needed for a career in academia. Topics include preparing and delivering conference papers and job talks, formulating and rehearsing elevator pitches, methods for effective teaching, creating your professional presence on social media, and discussions for conferences. Participants are expected to deliver multiple oral presentations based on their current research and practice effective teaching methods. Priority to Sloan doctoral students who have completed their first year.

Spring 2002 · Communication Skills for Academics

Topics

  • Course Overview: Basic Communication Skills, Strategy Listening, Giving Feedback
  • Writing (and Reading) Journal Articles and Conference Papers
  • Presentations
  • Presentations (optional re-do)
  • Course Wrap-Up

Readings

  • Cummings, L. L. and Peter Frost. Publishing in the Organizational Sciences. Sage Publications, 1995. 2nd Edition. [You may substitute a comparable work focused on a field more appropriate to your area of study.]
    Listed reading
  • Frost, Peter, and Ralph Stablein. Doing Exemplary Research. Eds. Sage Publications, 1992. [Again, if you are in another area, you may substitute a comparable reading.]
    Listed reading
  • Zerubavel, Eviatar. Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books. Harvard University Press, 1999. [Required for all.]
    Listed reading
  • Becker, Howard S. Writing for Social Scientist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
    Listed reading
  • Davis, Gordon B., and Clyde A. Parker. Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach . 2nd ed. Barron’s Educational Series, 1997.
    Listed reading
  • Locke, Lawrence F., Waneen Wyrick Spriduso, and Stephen J. Silverman. Proposals that Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals . Sage Publications, 1993.
    Listed reading
  • Nash, Walter. The Writing Scholar: Studies in Academic Discourse . Edited by Sage Publications, 1990.
    Listed reading
  • Nystrand, Martin. What Writers Know: The Language, Process, and Structure of Written Discourse . Academic Press, 1982.
    Listed reading
  • Maanen, John Van. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography . University of Chicago Press, 1988.
    Listed reading
  • Williams, Joseph. 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.]
    Listed reading
  • Caplan, Paula J. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman’s guide to Surviving in the Academic World . University of Toronto Press, 1995.
    Listed reading
  • Deneef, A. Leigh, and Craufurd D. Goodwin. The Academic’s Handbook . 2nd ed. Duke University Press, 1995.
    Listed reading
  • Frost, Peter J., and M. Susan Taylor. Rhythms of Academic Life: Personal Accounts of Careers in Academia . Edited by Sage, 1996.
    Listed reading
  • Zanna, Mark P., and John M. Darley. The Compleat Academic . Eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.
    Listed reading
  • Andre, Rae, and Peter J. Frost. Researchers Hooked on Teaching: Noted Scholars Discuss Synergies of Teaching and Research . Eds. Sage Publications, 1996.
    Listed reading
  • Boice, Robert. First-Order Principles for College Teachers: Ten Basic Ways to Improve the Teaching Process. Anker Publishing Company, 1996.
    Listed reading
  • Christensen, C. Roland, David A. Garvin, and Ann Sweet. Education for Judgment . Harvard Business School Press, 1991.
    Listed reading
  • Christensen, C. Roland with Abby J. Hansen. Teaching and the Case Method . Harvard Business School Press, 1987.
    Listed reading
  • Davis, Barbara Gross. Tools for Teaching. Jossey-Bass, 1993.
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  • Goldberger, Nancy Rule, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Mary Field Belenky, and Jill Mattuck Tarule. “Women’s Ways of Knowing.” In Sex and Gender: Review of Personality and Social Psychology . Edited by Phillip Shaver and Clyde Hendrick. Sage Publications, 1987, pp. 201-227.
    Listed reading
  • Weinstein, Gerald, and Kathy Obear. “ Bias Issues in the Classroom: Encounters with the Teaching Self .” In Maurianne Adams. Edited by Promoting Diversity in College Classrooms: Innovative Responses for the Curriculum , Faculty, and Institutions 52 (Winter 1992): 39-50.
    Listed reading
  • Beyer, Janice M., Roland G. Chanove, and William B. Fox. “The Review Process and the Fates of Manuscripts Submitted to AMJ.” AMJ 38, no. 5: pp. 1219-1260.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) 3-0-3 units

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