Week by week topics and tasks [Standardly
bring in 10 copies of any written assignments, so we can all look at them
and help each other.]
Jan. 30 Course overview
Feb. 6 CVs
Bring a draft of yours. Here are some suggestions
and here is a very
useful link.
Feb. 20 "The Dean's question": You've
made the short list and are brought in for job talk and department interview.
Then you are taken to the Dean (not a linguist), who asks "So tell me
what you work on". Bring in a written version of your answer (one page
max).
Feb. 27 Revisions of answers to Dean's question.
Initial
discussion of job application letters
Some useful sites for this:
a. http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~hlbostic/WritingJobAppLtr.htm
b. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep/jobsearch/application.html
March 13, 27 Departmental job interviews
April 3 Last job interview
Discussion of abstract preparation (abstract
hints HO); start working on abstract
April 10 Abstract evaluation
April 17 Special presentation by David Poeppel
on grants and post-docs. Spread the word.
April 24 Conference presentations
and participation
May 1 Teaching
tips Bring in some classroom situations/problems to discuss.
May 8 More on classroom situations. Then,
journal submission.
Administrative note: If you want to take the course but already have 9 credits (so that 2 more would put you over your limit), sign up for 1 credit.
Lecture:
Tuesday 9:30-10:45
1108B MMH
Howard Lasnik, instructor
1106 Marie Mount Hall
<lasnik [AT] UMD [DOT] edu>
(301) 405-4929
Office hours:
Monday afternoons & evenings
Thursday all day (until 5:00)
Course description
Topics will include:
-Writing a CV
-Writing a job application letter
-Requesting letters of recommendation
-Giving a job talk
-Interviewing
with the search committee
with the dean
-Applying for grants and post-docs (special presentation(s) by David)
-Writing letters of recommendation
-Submitting an article to a journal
Responding to reviewers' comments and criticisms
-Reviewing a journal submission
-Submitting an abstract to a conference
-Preparing a handout for a conference presentation
-Giving the presentation (and responding to questions)
-Being an impressive audience member at a talk
-Teaching techniques