How to Survive Your PhD: Everything You Need to Know on One Page
by David Gauntlett
But by his timeframe I’m soooo in trouble.
Meh.
on LIS, grad school, academia, and other random things…
infomusings
Currently browsing posts found in June2008
yes. oops.
average age at receipt of phd=33
I’m going to be right on track…
One thing is clear from the data: This is not a field that produces Wunderkinder, bright young things who make their mark at a precocious age. In fact, some of our sample members have kept their best wine until last. Creativity in academic information science is clearly not the […]
ha!
Gallery of the worst information graphics ever. Sad….
read it here first.
In my dissertation proposal I offer an initial operating definition of information organization behavior to replace the unacceptable one I’ve ranted about before:
Any activities undertaken by a person or people—uncoordinated or working as a group in an organization or institution—to describe, represent, name, order, structure, categorize or class information objects. Information organization behavior takes place […]
writing.
Despite the awkward state of my literature review’s grammar and spelling,1 I am quite concerned with writing well. Being an academic is no excuse for being utterly boring. Says the cataloging teacher…
I am now writing my proposal and I noticed I am repeating words: summarize, describe, review. This reminded me I have been meaning to […]