How to Succeed in Academics

By Linda L. McCabe, Edward McCabe, Linda McCabe

Book Overview

This new edition of How to Succeed in Academics provides up-to-date mentoring on all aspects of a successful academic career, particularly a career in the sciences. Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe bring decades of expertise and experience to such topics as marketing your ideas through posters, talks, manuscripts, and grant proposals; developing strategies for applying, interviewing, and negotiating for training programs and jobs; establishing professional networks and seeking leadership opportunities; improving your teaching, speaking, and writing skills; and setting goals and creating schedules to achieve them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520262689
• ISBN13: 9780520262683
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

excellent for those of us in the sciences; misleading title

It is true that this book is of no relevance to you if your research doesn't involve grant submissions to the National Institutes of Health and the corresponding expectation of publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The title should have reflected this bias. If you are a pre/post-doctoral scientist, however, it is marvelous. The chapter on NIH Study Sessions has information that scientists don't usually get until they have served on study sessions themselves; and in general the grant preparation and submission advice is superb. The focus is on grants for which the reader is the Principal Investigator, but there are very helpful suggestions for NRSAs as well. Chapters on poster presentation, paper writing, and talks (both 1-hour and 15-minute formats) show the same combination of common-sense information and tips that can only come from senior scientists who have witnessed their share of career-damaging gaffes.