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How To Describe Teaching: Not When and Where but What and How 23 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
When discussing teaching in the teaching paragraph of your letter, one of the temptations is to tell a chronological tale of how you taught as an adjunct here and an adjunct there, and taught this cla...
MLA Job Advice (A Guest Post) 17 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
I missed my weekly Friday post yesterday because I had grand plans to make it a video post, but when I recorded the video, I couldn’t get it to upload. I ended up delivering my little lecture on tai...
Why You Don’t Need ExtenZe® 9 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. What I am actually here to speak about today is why you don’t need “extends.” What is “extends”? “Extends” is what practically every single one of you says that your researc...
On Leaving the Cult (A Letter From a Client) 5 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
I get a pretty regular stream of fan mail from clients and readers, and I read all of it, respond to all of it, and deeply appreciate all of it. When I get a letter from someone telling me how the re...
“Write Like a Motherfucker” 2 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
I’ve been post-academic now for just about exactly three years. Three years since I left my tenured position at University of Illinois to move back to Eugene, Oregon with no job and no idea what I’d d...
On Not Getting Paid Enough 19 Jul 2013 | 09:56 pm
Regular readers might remember the guest post we had here on the blog from awhile back, called The Real Life of a Tenure Track Faculty Person, which explored the usually unacknowledged financial strug...
Writing a Book While Teaching (and teaching, and teaching, and teaching….) (A Guest Post) 19 Jun 2013 | 10:35 pm
[Please note that Dr. Karen is on summer holiday June 15-July 15 and not posting to the blog during that time. This guest post will be the only post during that time. See you in July!] A reader wrot...
Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post) 11 Jun 2013 | 12:17 am
A reader wrote asking for a post on how to write a book while working at a teaching-intensive university. I put out a request for a guest post on the subject on Facebook, and Steve Engler responded w...
Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post) 11 Jun 2013 | 12:17 am
A reader wrote asking for a post on how to write a book while working at a teaching-intensive university. I put out a request for a guest post on the subject on Facebook, and Steve Engler responded w...
Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post) 11 Jun 2013 | 12:17 am
A reader wrote asking for a post on how to write a book while working at a teaching-intensive university. I put out a request for a guest post on the subject on Facebook, and Steve Engler responded w...
