From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor,   ISBN:9780231145336

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This slender volume is a practical treasure trove of information for anyone in graduate school who wants to be a professor. I always feel like I was absent the day the handbook of How To Do This was handed out, and that I am just faking my way through this experience, but THIS Is the handbook I was wishing for all along. It deals with the whole process from the dissertation to job searching to interviews to publishing. It maps out the process and includes priceless advice for not only how to conduct oneself but how to get what you need out of the whole process.

Seriously--if you are headed for a life in academia, I cannot recommend this book enough. It is clearly worded and well written and frankly downright indispensable.

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Whether you're an aspiring Ph.D. student, a committed doctoral
student, a hard-working ABD, or a promising (or less promising) assistant professor, you
most likely will find Steven M. Cahn's FROM STUDENT TO SCHOLAR: A
Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor (2008) to be the best of its kind.

This little book of advice is just great. Yesterday I read it
through at one sitting. And I've decided to buy a copy of the book for myself.

I agree with former MLA President Catharine R. Stimpson, who wrote the
foreword for the book: It provides "a road map for the men and women
who want to join an ancient and usually honorable company--that of
scholars and teachers."

The ten-chapter book discusses nearly everything you want to know
about how to become a successful scholar-teacher.