So You're a Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This

Citation:

Gary King. 2020. “So You're a Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This.” In The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, edited by Jr. Robert J. Franzese and Luigi Curini, Pp. 1--4. London: Sage Publications. Copy at https://tinyurl.com/y9tev63a
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So You're a Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This

Abstract:

Congratulations! You’ve made it to graduate school. This means you’re in a select group, about to embark on a great adventure to learn about the world and teach us all some new things. This also means you obviously know how to follow rules. So I have five for you -- not counting the obvious one that to learn new things you’ll need to break some rules. After all, to be a successful academic, you’ll need to cut a new path, and so if you do exactly what your advisors and I did, you won’t get anywhere near as far since we already did it. So here are some rules, but break some of them, perhaps including this one
Last updated on 02/07/2020