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Recommended Reading


 
Asher, Donald. The Overnight Résumé. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1991.

Bauld, Harry. On Writing the College Application Essay. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Basalla, Susan and Maggie Debelius. "So What are You Going to do with That?": A Guide to Career-Changing for MAs and PhDs.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Becker, Howard Saul. Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Blum, Laurie. Free Money for Graduate School, ed 3. New York: Facts on File, 1996.

Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis. New York: H. Holt, 1998.

 Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995.

Breneman, David W., and Ted I. K. Youn. Academic Labor Markets and Careers , The Stanford Series on Education and Public Policy. New York: Falmer Press, 1988.

Caplan, Paula J. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Davis, Gordon Bitter, and Clyde Alvin Parker. Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach, ed 2. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's, 1997.

Greene, Howard, and Robert Minton. Beyond the Ivy Wall: 10 Essential Steps to Graduate School Admission. Boston: Little Brown, 1989.

Gustafson, Melanie, ed. Becoming a Historian: A Survival Manual for Women and Men. Washington, D.C.: Published by the Committee on Women Historians and the American Historical Association, 1991.

Leider, Robert, and Anna Leider. Don't Miss Out: The Ambitious Student's Guide to Financial Aid. Alexandria, VA: Octameron Associates, 1989.

Long, Thomas J., John J. Convey, and Adele R. Chwalek. Completing Dissertations in the Behavioral Sciences and Education.The Jossey-Bass Higher Education Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985.

Madsen, David. Successful Dissertations and Theses: A Guide to Graduate Student Research from Proposal to Completion. 2nd ed, Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Martin, Roy. Writing and Defending a Thesis or Dissertation in Psychology and Education. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1980.

McKeachie, Wilbert, J. Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research & Theory for College and University Teachers, ed 10. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1999.

Nerad, Maresi, Raymond June, and Debra Sands Miller. Graduate Education in the United States. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

Peters, Robert L. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. New York: Noonday Press, 1997.

Peterson's Grants for Graduate & Postdoctoral Study, ed 4. Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides, 1995.

Rudestam, Kjell Erik and Rae R. Newton.  Surviving your Dissertation , ed 2. Sage Publications, 2001.


  

Sternberg, David Joel. How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

Toth, Emily. Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia.   Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Wyman, Roger E., Nancy A. Risser, and Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Humanities Ph.D.'s and Nonacademic Careers: A Guide for Faculty Advisers . Evanston, Ill.: Committee on Institutional Cooperation : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 1983. 

Zerubavel, Eviatar. The Clockwork Muse: A Practival Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books.  Harvard University Press, 1999.


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