Things tagged (for better or worse) "tips"
Keynote Presentation The Gentle Art of Giving a Paper
A short Keynote presentation in HTML form about presenting papers at conferences.
Going to Graduate School--Some Questions and Considerations
Select, important considerations in deciding to go to graduate school or not:
What is your main motivating reason for going?
10 Tips On How To Write Less Badly
September 6, 2010
CHE: Advice: Do Your Job Better
http://chronicle.com/article/10-Tips-on-How-to-Write-Less/124268/
Majoring/Grad School in Philosophy
Majoring and Going to Graduate School
FAQs-Frequently asked questions
Student FAQ's -- Some Frequently Asked Questions
Grading Abbreviations
List of Common Comments and their Abbreviations
Papers: Writing Clear and Effective Philosophical Essays
1. Here is a great resource from University of North Carolina's Philosophy Department: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/philosophy.html
Tips for Understanding Philosophy
The value of a philosophy or humanities degree: An excellent resource is here.
Lectures
Read the material before lecture. A good lecture does not just regurgitate what was in the reading. It gives some description but also moves ahead to interpretation and analysis of the issues in the reading. Often students complain that a professor was "off on a tangent"; sometimes they're right, but often I have found that they hadn't done the reading first (so, how could they even know what a tangent was?).
Exam hints
How to learn from your previous exam
