http://chronicle.com/section/Do-Your-Job-Better/72/ Advice :: Do Your Job Better Wed, 23 May 2012 04:16:37 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131904/ http://chronicle.com/article/Varieties-of-Procrastination/131904/ How to tell the difference between when it's OK to put off work and when you're only hurting yourself.

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 19:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131843/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Really-Matters-to-Working/131843/ Frustrated by attendance problems in his developmental English course, a professor asks students to help him understand.

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131831/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Letter-to-a-New-Chair/131831/ The job of department chair carries an ounce of cachet and a ton of weight, but it's worth doing.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131813/ http://chronicle.com/article/10-Commandments-of-Twitter-for/131813/ An evangelist for tweeting explains the benefits for scholars and the common mistakes they make.

]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131777/ http://chronicle.com/article/On-Teaching-Awards/131777/ An innovative model seeks to reward good teachers and benefit from them as well.

]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131748/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dont-Hug-Them-Dealing-With/131748/ Composition instructors become unwitting guides and counselors for many first-year students.

]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131708/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Cant-Farm-Out-the/131708/ Insecure about their own prose, too many faculty members shy away from evaluating the quality of their students'.

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131599/ http://chronicle.com/article/Death-by-Discussion/131599/ Someone save me from these meetings.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131475/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Write-an-Anonymous-Peer/131475/ Civility is important in evaluating a manuscript for publication, but so is telling the truth when the paper falls short.

]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131442/ http://chronicle.com/article/Using-Twitter-to-Talk-About/131442/ A vibrant conversation about pedagogy can be found on Twitter if you know where to look.

]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131437/ http://chronicle.com/article/Keyword-Placement/131437/ Why graduate schools count academic placements more eagerly than any other kind, and why that must change.

]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131438/ http://chronicle.com/article/My-Terrible-Horrible-No/131438/ A Ph.D. candidate sorts through all the contradictory advice out there on writing.

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131405/ http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Future-Scientists-to/131405/ A new program seeks to convince young researchers early on about the importance of communicating with the public.

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131360/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Bother-Writing-Book/131360/ It's better to write one good article than to review 20 books, and even better to write one good book.

]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131247/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-I-Learned-About-Surviving/131247/ A new assistant professor offers advice about how to enjoy life as an overworked and underpaid doctoral student.

]]> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131232/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Inherent-Unreliability-of/131232/ An experienced law-school adjunct explains why it is not fair or wise to judge instructors solely through student ratings.

]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131106/ http://chronicle.com/article/Every-Monograph-a-Movie/131106/ People still don't like to read academic books, and they never will. We can, however, reach them with audio and video.

]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131105/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Best-Laid-Teaching-Schemes/131105/ A professor tries a new approach to revitalize his survey course.

]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131082/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Conference-Season-in/131082/ With budgets limiting professional development, administrators need to make the most of association meetings.

]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131074/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Pleasing-Observation/131074/ What if a peer evaluation of your teaching wasn't anxiety-producing and actually helped improve your pedagogy?

]]> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131011/ http://chronicle.com/article/Not-My-Type/131011/ A few cheap tricks to lessen the pain of writing and rewriting.

]]> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131012/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Comprehensive-Exam-Make/131012/ How can we use comp exams to identify doctoral students who are suited for dissertation work and those who aren't?

]]> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130948/ http://chronicle.com/article/Enlightening-Advisees/130948/ My mission as an adviser isn't to dissuade everyone from graduate training, but to help students make informed decisions.

]]> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130882/ http://chronicle.com/article/I-Cant-Learn-Their-Names/130882/ How does an aging faculty member distinguish between students when "they all look alike"?

]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130838/ http://chronicle.com/article/Giving-Troubled-Students-the/130838/ Campus counseling services are telling too many students with high-risk problems to seek help elsewhere.

]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130716/ http://chronicle.com/article/Making-a-Public-PhD/130716/ How, specifically, do you put together a program that will prepare graduate students for nonacademic careers?

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