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.
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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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Introduction: The Skills You Need
1. How to Read, Part I: Dissecting a Text
2. How to Read, Part II: Critiquing a Text
3. How to Write
4. How to Speak
5. How to Act
6. How to Research
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一开始,大多数人都很难将自己的研究问题压缩到八个词以内。要记住,你有许多机会展开讨论你的问题,现在你才刚刚开始做研究,一定要逼自己简短地表述问题。你会发现,这会让你在研究和写作阶段都能集中精神。
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