{"id":20657,"date":"2014-02-07T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/logan-park.org\/?p=20657"},"modified":"2014-02-07T20:19:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T20:19:19","slug":"handy-guides-for-my-grad-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logan-park.org\/?p=20657","title":{"rendered":"Handy Guides For My Grad Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Dear Graduate Students,<\/p>\n

Here a\"thesis<\/a>re a few links to guides I have compiled with you and my previous grad students. I hope that they make your life easier!<\/p>\n

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Article Summary Form<\/a> – Not sure how to summarize the key bits of an article? Feeling intimidated about compiling your personal annotated bibliography? Use this form to get the boulder rolling.<\/p>\n

Best Ways To Accomplish a Lit Search<\/a> – A couple sensible guidelines about shrinking your blind spots while performing a lit search.<\/p>\n

Course of Study Template<\/a> – A couple remarks that my graduate students have supplied concerning classes to take as a grad student.<\/p>\n

Detailed Outline Format for Theses<\/a> – This document serves like a little template. Use it, or the one supplied by the grad school.<\/p>\n

Example Poster Abstracts<\/a> – Headed to a conference? You might refer to this if you’re stumped about drafting your abstract.<\/p>\n

Gaining Entrance Into Closed Groups<\/a> – Is your research project about a sensitive social topic? Take a look here as a jumping-off point to more detailed discussions in your textbooks.<\/p>\n

How To Read Articles<\/a> – Another take on getting what you need out of an article without grinding to a halt.<\/p>\n

Milestones to Graduation<\/a> – This guide is outdated–visit our Google Docs<\/a> version instead.<\/p>\n

On-Campus Assistantships<\/a> – Searching for funding support? More than one of my grad students has been able to take advantage of these.<\/p>\n

Presidential Management Fellowship Checklist<\/a> – The PMF program is highly prestigious and the application is not trivial. Here’s a short guide we compiled to help ourselves for next time.<\/p>\n

Survey Editing Template<\/a> – This guide is a short jumping-off point to the more detailed survey\/questionnaire instrument editing checklist in Vaske’s textbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surviving Grad School in the PARCS Research Group<\/a> – This list collects the survival strategies of your fellow research grad students. How to manage Dr. Park! How to stay sane!<\/p>\n

Why you always inspect data visually<\/a> – Once you’ve collected data, read this. It will sober you up.<\/p>\n

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