Being a Student
General
For students interest in pursuing a PhD: Ph.D. Advice
University of Massachusetts Amherst. "Advice to Students"
Managing your research project
Gare, Shelley. "Success is All in the Mind" The Australian, January 24, 2009. (pdf)
Keith, Chris. "Applying for Doctoral Work When You're From a Small School"
Loomis, Worth. "Three Books Theological Students Should Read" (pdf)
Robert, Darnton, "The Library in the New Age," in The New York Review of Books, 55:10 (2008).
Webb, Beatrice “The Art of Note-Taking” in My Apprenticeship (pdf)
Re-envisioning the Ph D - Funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts (pdf)
This website is excellent resource for understanding the current state of doctoral education. The attached document provides a summary of the findings of a recent study.
Student Supplement to the SBL Handbook of Style (pdf)
Zacharias, Danny, "The Wired Scholar" (doc)
This describes how five of Google's free applications might be useful for academic study.
Quotes
“the end of education is not to teach, but to fit the mind for learning from its own consciousness and observation; . . . As the memory is trained by remembering, so is the reasoning power by reasoning; the imaginative by imagining; the analytic by analysing; the inventive by finding out. Let the education of the mind consist in calling out and exercising these faculties; never trouble yourself about giving knowledge—train the mind—keep it supplied with materials, and knowledge will come of itself. Let all cram be ruthlessly discarded. . . . Were all this done, there would be no complaint of any want of genius in modern times.”
“ON GENIUS” (1832). John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume I - Autobiography and Literary Essays, ed. John M. Robson and Jack Stillinger, introduction by Lord Robbins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).
"[T]he most valuable part of education for any learned profession is that aspect that teaches future professionals to think, read, compare, discriminate, analyze, form judgments, and generally enhance their capacity to confront the ambiguities and enigmas of the human condition."
Harold T. Shapiro, a former president of Princeton, in A Larger Sense of Purpose (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005).
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Benton, Thomas H. "The Annual Labor-Shortage Hoax," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2007.
Gradgrind, Lagretta “Too Many Bad Apples,” The Chronicle of Higher Education
After spending 25 years working with graduate students, a professor concludes it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Hoover, Eric “Tomorrow, I Love Ya!” The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 9, 2005.
Researchers are learning more about chronic dawdlers but see no easy cure for procrastination.
Parini, Jay “The Well-Tempered Lecturer,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 16, 2004.
Parini, Jay “The Well-Tempered Seminar,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 23, 2004.
Shelley, Phillip H. “Colleges Need to Give Students Intensive Care,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 7, 2005.