Tips and Advice for Graduate Students

GENERAL TIPS

 

“Grad Skool Rulz”

by Fabio Rojas Various tidbits of advice from a sociologist on dealing with graduate school, from how to pick your advisor to writing your dissertation
(http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/grad-skool-rulz/)

 

How to Write a Sociology Article

Great blog page providing tips for how to structure that most elusive entity: the sociology journal article.
(http://wickedanomie.blogspot.com/2008/03/academic-manuscript.html)

 

GRANTS & PROPOSALS

“On the Art of Writing Proposals”
by Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon for the SSRC. Excellent tips for writing grant proposals; the same tips should be followed for writing dissertation proposals.
The Art of Writing Proposals

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“Medicalizing Mental Health” By Sigrun Olafsdottir
Grant proposal to National Science Foundation based upon dissertation proposal.
Medicalizing.pdf