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16 reviews
Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

Essential guide to the academic job search
The Academic Job Search Handbook is the essential guide for anyone pursuing an academic career. Now in its 4th edition, this book is recognized amongst graduate career professionals not only as a classic in our field, but also as an up-to-date guide book to preparing for and applying to faculty positions. Through straightforward advice coupled with sensitivity toward individual and ...

Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual

4 reviews
Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2005

Best Enjoyed with Building Background Knowledge For Academic... by Robert J. Marzano
This book was worth the purchase because of the leveled word lists for ALL subjects. Almost 8,000 for 11 subjects - that includes all the topics covered in Social Studies, noncore classes, all leveled by grade range. It does refer to the accompanying Marzano work often and I found I needed to purchase both to receive the full amount of understanding I wanted on the subject. You need this if ...

The Crosscultural Language and Academic Development Handbook: A Complete K-12 Reference Guide (3rd Edition)

15 reviews
Lynne T. Diaz-Rico, Kathryn Z. Weed

Allyn & Bacon, 2005

CTEL Study Guide
This book seriously saved my life while I was studying for the CTEL. I read it from cover to cover in a week. All of the information was useful and helped me pass the test!

How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

39 reviews
Paul J. Silvia

American Psychological Association (APA), 2007

fantastic book
The book is very readable, to-the-point, and its arguments are well-supported. Silvia takes a behavioral approach to writing, focusing on how to form effective writing habits. His book is focused on the field of psychology, but his methods are certainly applicable to non-fiction writing in other areas as well.

Commentary for Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 2d ed.: Essential Tasks and Skills (Michigan Series in ...

4 reviews
John M. Swales, Christine A. Beer Feak

University of Michigan Press/ESL, 2004

Excellent primer for writing instructors - and international graduate students
How do international students develop the appropriate vocabulary, register, and practice for writing their research projects in English? What reading and writing strategies and techniques do ESL students need to master to successfully write summaries, create annotated bibliographies, and convey their ideas to their academic peers and professors? This commentary to the second edition of the ...

Writing Academic English, Fourth Edition (The Longman Academic Writing Series, Level 4)

8 reviews
Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

Pearson Longman, 2006

Solid, up-to-date Textbook
Using this textbook for the first time this year, I found it to be both well organized and contain interesting content, which helped pique the students' interest. After spending much time researching potential texts, this one was by and far the best. I only wish it had come with a teacher's edition providing creative suggestions for proceeding through the book (I'm a new teacher). Still, it has ...

Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education)

Jossey-Bass, 2008

One of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic advising. They explore the critical aspects of academic advising and provide insights for full-time advisors, counselors, and those who oversee ...

Building Background Knowledge For Academic Achievement: Research On What Works In Schools

4 reviews
Robert J. Marzano

Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2004

Organized into 11 subject areas and 4 grade-level categories
Building Background Knowledge For Academic Achievement: Research On What Works In Schools by Robert J. Marzano (Senior Scholar, Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning, Aurora, Colorado and Associate Professor, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) discusses how two combined approaches - sustained silent reading and careful study of subject-specific vocabulary terms - can ...

Classroom Management for Academic Success

4 reviews
Lee Canter

Solution Tree, 2005

Every new teacher should own this book
A detailed curriculum guide for teaching appropriate, responsible behavior has been needed for so long but has not been available--until now. As Harry Wong said, "The number one problem in education is not discipline. It is the lack of procedures and routines resulting in students not knowing what to do-responsibly-in the classroom." Canter's book addresses this need in a systematic and detailed ...

From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader
Stuart Greene, April Lidinsky

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

Evaluating Research in Academic Journals: A Practical Guide to Realistic Education

1 review
Fred Pyrczak

Pyrczak Pub, 2007

good step-by-step guide for evaluation
This book was required for a class on research methods. It is very practical in approach to evaluating both work that is written by others (to determine if it would be a good source, for example), as well as helping to guide you in writing your own work (to make sure you've covered all points, for example). It seems to have more of a scientific approach then historical, but as a historian I ...

The Academics Handbook

2 reviews

Duke University Press, 2006

This is excellent!
This is a book I wish someone had told me about when still a doctoral student -- it certainly would have helped a great deal over the years. Things obviously would have worked much better and my transition from Graduate School to the professoriate would have been much smoother. Every graduate student and every new assistant professor needs one on their shelves. Not only that: Graduate Faculty, ...

They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

21 reviews
Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein

W. W. Norton, 2005

And I say...
This book is full of templates and models of writing arguments. It's very helpful for anyone to learn these skills even though it was meant for college students; in fact, I really see it as being more helpful to teach high school (upper school) students these styles.

The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide

5 reviews

American Psychological Association (APA), 2003

A research psychologist's bible
This book is a must have for anyone in or considering a career in academia as a psychologist. It offers wonderful perspectives for what you should and should not do at all stages of your academic career. As a psychology grad student, I am recommending it to all of my peers. I could not be happier with this book. It is a wonderful source of professional guidance and inspiration.

Introduction to Academic Writing, Third Edition (The Longman Academic Writing Series, Level 3)

4 reviews
Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

Pearson Longman, 2006

Great for learning to teach ESL writing
As an ESL teacher trainer, I have used this book in a course on how to teach ESL writing. My students read through the entire book and worked through all the exercises in several chapters. They found it very helpful and practical for getting the main idea of how to teach ESL writing, how to present and practice skills, how to organize instruction. Like most ESL textbooks, there are topics ...

The Academic Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service (Jossey-Bass Higher ...
Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller

Jossey-Bass, 2008

This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items ...

Test of Essential Academic Skills Pre Test Study Manual: Reading, Mathematics, Science, and English and ...

4 reviews
Dawn Clayton

Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI), 2004

Great prep book
This is the prep book recommended by Rush University (because it's the exam they give). It's direct and easy reading/studying. I used it and got above the national average in all area's of the test and I hate these types of tests. I highly recommend it. Good luck!!

A Sequence for Academic Writing (4th Edition) (Behrens/Rosen)

3 reviews
Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen

Longman, 2009

Good Book
This book provides some good information on the proper way to write academically. Pretty self explanatory.

Building Academic Language: Essential Practices for Content Classrooms, Grades 5-12 (Jossey-Bass Teacher)

2 reviews
Jeff Zwiers

Jossey-Bass, 2007

Signaling a coming of age in adolescent literacy instruction
Have you been waiting for this book too? Jeff Zwiers' newest book, "Building Academic Language: Essential Practices..." represents a "coming of age" with respect to the nation-wide focus, intensified less than a decade ago, on improving adolescent literacy instruction. If secondary teachers are finding that vocabulary activities and graphic organizers alone aren't enough to make text ...

The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure--Without Losing Your Soul

1 review
Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Tracey Laszloffy

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008

Excellent Book!
There are few book that are must-reads. That will help you to navigate the minefield of earning tenure and surviving the madness of being a person of color in the academy. This is one of those rare gems that will help you to anticipate the challenges and to remind you that you are not in this struggle alone, others understand, and have succeeded. I give this book my highest recommendation.

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