Helpful Links for Graduate Students

U of Michigan Career Center (great links and overviews of CV, Cover Letter, and more)

Brown University's teaching portfoliio site

Dartmouth College grad studies site on writing the cv

Pedagogy (on-line Journal--must be connected to CSUSM)

U Michigan Center for Teaching and Learning

Gutenberg etexts

Penn Call for Papers Site (announcements about upcoming conferences)

The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Section (Ms. Mentor)

The MLA ADE (Associated Depts. of English) site . Check the "reports and resources" and "facts and figures" links to find out about graduate programs, hiring trends, and the like.

College English (avail through CSUSM only)

Gerald Graff's essay "Hiding it From the Kids." for those applying to Ph.D. Programs. (avial through CSUSM only)

Writing Academic Documents

Abstracts

    overview

    examples

Annotated Bibliographies

    overview

    example

Bibliographic or Review Essays

    overview

    example 1

    example 2 *long

    example 3 (also long)

    example 4 (only 2 books reviewed; good for style)

    example 5

    example 6 (subsections are rigiht scope to use as models)