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Grad School Essentials

A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills
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Grad School Essentials by Professor Zachary Shore addresses the common challenges faced by graduate students beyond just heavy workloads. The book offers clear, practical strategies to master five key skills vital for success: advanced reading, writing, speaking, acting, and research. With engaging and humorous prose, each chapter presents unique methods for developing these abilities, helping students improve their work quality, save time, and achieve their academic goals.
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This guide is ideal for graduate students seeking effective and efficient approaches to excel academically. It may also benefit educators and academic mentors who support graduate learners.

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Teaches you to master the five most crucial skills you need to succeed: how to read, write, speak, act, and research at a higher level. This guide outlines an approach for acquiring a skill and then demonstrates how to enhance it.

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What's the hardest part of grad school? It's not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It's that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Professor Zachary Shore aims to change this.

With humorous, lively prose, Professor Shore teaches you to master the five most crucial skills you need to succeed: how to read, write, speak, act, and research at a higher level. Each chapter in this no-nonsense guide outlines a unique approach to acquiring a skill and then demonstrates how to enhance it.

Through these concrete, practical methods, Grad School Essentials will save you time, elevate the quality of your work, and help you to earn the degree you seek.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520288300

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 227g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Zachary Shore is Associate Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School and Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the winner of Harvard's Derek Bok award for teaching excellence and the author of four previous books. He can be reached at ZacharyShore.com.

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