ISBN 978-1-57473-028-9 paperback, $18.95
ISBN 978-1-57473-228-3 paperback 10-pack, $95.00
ISBN 978-1-57473-128-6 library binding, $48.95
Overview
Surviving Linguistics offers linguistics students clear, practical, and focused advice on how to succeed in graduate school and earn a degree. The book is a valuable resource for students at any stage of their graduate career, from learning to write linguistics papers through completing their dissertation and finding a job. Along the way, the author explains the process of submitting conference abstracts, presenting papers at conferences, publishing journal articles, writing grant applications, creating a CV, and much more. Throughout Surviving Linguistics, Macaulay emphasizes the importance of working with advisors, dissertation committees, and fellow graduate students. The book includes exercises, helpful references to numerous books and on-line resources, and an index.
Although Macaulay focuses on North America in explaining the structure of graduate school and the process of applying for academic jobs, the advice in this book about writing and research in linguistics will be useful to linguistics students everywhere.
Available as single copies or 10-packs
Surviving Linguistics is available in paperback and library binding (no dust jacket). We also offer paperback 10-packs for professors, advisors, and departments who want to give this valuable guide to their students. These 10-packs are 10 copies of the paperback edition packed together and offered at a 50% discount. Bookstores and resellers should note that the 10-pack is non-returnable after 30 days, and that no further discounts apply to the 10-pack.
Advance praise for Surviving Linguistics
"This book satisfies a real need in our field; it answers questions that our grad students repeatedly ask me, and offers much better answers than I typically do. Macaulay is general where she needs to be general and specific where she needs to be specific, and covers an impressive range of areas, most of which grad students learn about mainly through hearsay. Surviving Linguistics should be standard equipment for anyone trying to enter academic life in our field." --Norvin Richards, MIT
"Macaulay's book will be an invaluable asset to all students in -- or considering -- graduate programs in linguistics. She writes clearly and straightforwardly about common issues faced by linguistics graduate students, including common phenomena that are not usually discussed explicitly, such as the 'impostor syndrome.' Chapters on the types of writing linguists do, as well as how to go about doing them, submitting them to conferences, getting them published, etc., are thorough but not intimidating, and include helpful exercises. Throughout, Macaulay also provides useful suggestions for additional print and online resources. Overall, this is an excellent guide which no graduate student in linguistics should do without." --Tami Kaplan, LSA Committee on Language in the School Curriculum
"Macaulay's book is a great help for those contemplating grad school in linguistics or those already there. As an undergraduate advisor and a graduate mentor, I frequently interact with both types, and now have a great resource to recommend. This book is like a well-written travel guide for voyagers of good intention but with little foreknowledge of the adventure they plan to undertake or preparation for it. This book provides exactly what they need: it tackles all the details that are assumed but seldom discussed; it provides practical tactics for success in all major aspects of graduate life; it gives good advice about avoiding difficulties and dealing with realities; and perhaps most importantly, it prepares the voyager for the culture shock of joining a community with established norms that are functional and unavoidable, but non-intuitive and potentially frustrating for the non-initiate. With its help, graduate students can look forward to an easier path from stumbling tourist to comfortable resident in our community of scholarship." --Ed Rubin, University of Utah
Reviews
"Although she focuses on the particular needs of graduate students in her field, Macaulay (linguistics, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) gives common sense advice that applies to other disciplines." --Reference and Research Book News 21:3, August 2006
About the author
Monica Macaulay is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches a research methods and materials course for linguistics graduate students. Macaulay received her PhD in linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley in 1987. Her research is primarily on the morphology of Native American Languages. She cofounded the Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, has served on the LSA Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics, and is a member of the LSA Executive Committee. Her home page is http://ling.wisc.edu/~macaulay/monica.html.
