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  1. Thanks. I think that's the contextual background definitely useful for reading books. But there's also a lot of reading for dense articles--both theoretical and empirical research-based.
  2. When I started writing my MA thesis, I was also teaching for the first time, and the overall experience of balancing both was really stressful. For my MA essay, there's an option of revising a seminar paper, so I went with this option and made an earnest mistake of writing a theoretically argumentative paper without opting for data collection and analysis. The main reason was that I didn't want to spend too much time and wanted to move on to the PhD program a bit faster. But writing the essay made me realize that a theoretical paper is a lot harder than a paper that has some data to be grounded and analyzed. In short, I think my thesis could be better, and my initial idea of submitting it to a journal is even starting to dissipate because I'm not that confident with the quality of my paper. I'm also afraid if this is any indication of how my dissertation writing would be like. How should I get my confidence back up again? And how do you know if a paper is good enough to try submitting it to a journal?
  3. Hi excellent readers out there! I'd like some advice on how to do critical reading effectively for humanities. Should you still use skimming when reading a dense, difficult text? I try to come up with discussion points and interesting ideas. But sometimes when I get to class, the way that the professor frames the reading or asks questions makes me feel like my reading wasn't critical or thorough enough. I genuinely want to improve the way I read both for effectiveness and efficiency (without spending way too much time on reading that I steal time for other work). Thanks!
  4. Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has experience or know people who successfully landed higher-ed jobs abroad. I'm currently in grad school in the U.S. as an international student, and I'm interested to work as a lecturer or a tenure-track position in Singapore since part of my family lives there. It's still 3-4 years to finish my program here, but I want to plan ahead a bit and want to hear any advice or experience that you might want to share. Thanks!
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