Graduate students enter graduate programs hungry to learn about research,
teaching, and professionalization. They seek knowledge of their discipline,
socialization from faculty and peers, and most importantly the tools to perform
the jobs
This is a story about two hemispheres of graduate school: teaching and
dissertating. It is a story about how those two parts sometimes cohere but are
more often rendered in sharp relief. It’
When I started graduate school and immediately became the instructor of record
of a freshman composition course, I had a couple of advantages going for me.
First, my parents were both educators, one
In 2013–14, a remarkable 20.5%
[http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_318.20.asp](154,636) of all
Master’s degrees were earned by students in the field