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The Professor Is In: How to Write an Honest but Collegial Book Review | Vitae - 0 views

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book reviews

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Rick West on 14 Aug 14

how to write a book review, and also just advice about being overly critical as a reviewer in general

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The Rhetoric of the CV - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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cv vita job search

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Never include your graduate school GPA
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  I don't know, I think GPAs are good if you have a good GPA.
  
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lot depends on the type of college to which you are applying.
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  This is exactly right---emphasize teaching for a teaching college, and research for a research university.
  
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clearly labeled headings for each kind of publication that you have: books, peer-reviewed journal articles, peer-reviewed book chapters, other kinds of peer-reviewed writing, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, other types of academic writing, and so on.
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Doing so implicitly argues that you believe a peer-reviewed article has the same scholarly impact as a book review. That, of course, is not true, and I am sure that you do not actually believe it, but the rhetoric of your CV is suggesting that you do.
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uch work should be clearly labeled and placed in a subsection called "Under Submission" or "Work in Progress."
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have individual subsections highlighting courses for which you were the instructor of record, for which you were a graduate assistant, or for which you gave guest presentations (if applicable).
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Rick West on 05 Apr 12

how to write up your vita.

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