Communication Skills for Academics

Calendar

LEC #	Topics	Readings	Due
1	Course Overview: Basic Communication Skills, Strategy Listening, Giving Feedback	Teaching note. Active Listening and Reflective Responses. Barnes. Managing Interpersonal Feedback.
2	Oral Presentations: The Basics Delivering Conference Papers Workshop: Introducing Your Research Interests	Donald, Bruce Randall. “How to Give a Good Talk.” Edwards, Paul. “How to Give a Talk: Changing the Culture of Academic Public Speaking.” (PDF) “Creating a Poster Using MSPowerPoint.”	Prepare a 2-3 minute oral summary of your research interests aimed at other students in the class
3	Oral Presentations: The Job Talk Workshop: The 60-second Elevator Pitch Writing: Genres of Academic Writing	Frost and Stablein. Journeys 1 and 2. Pp. 19-76.	Prepare a 60-second elevator pitch about your research interests aimed at senior academics in your field
4	Writing (and Reading) Journal Articles and Conference Papers	Zerubavel. Pp. 1-13 (read); pp. 14-98 (skim). Lanham. “Who’s Kicking Who.” Berkenkotter, Huckin, and Ackerman. “Social Context and Socially Constructed Texts” (skim). An article of your choice in your target journal/conference.	Topic and target audience (conference, journal, etc.) of written assignment and oral assignment
5	Surviving the Reviewing Process and Getting Published Reviewing Papers for Journals and Conferences	Cummings and Frost. Pp. 257-268. Gans and Shepherd. “How Are the Mighty Fallen:…” Teaching note. “Writing Peer Reviews of Manuscripts.” AMJ Reviewer Guidelines Lee, Allen. “Reviewing a Manuscript for Publication.” Optional: Cummings and Frost, pp. 13-43, 151-202. Optional: Allen Lee, Editor’s Comments, MISQ 23, No. 4 (a case study of the editorial process for one article).	One-page analysis of target audience/journal for written assignment
6	Teaching: The Basics Managing Discussions, Using Cases Workshop: Peer Reviewing of Draft Journal or Conference Review	Christensen. “The Discussion Teacher in Action: Questioning, Listening, and Response.” Breslow. “Contracts in the Classroom.” Rhem. “Deep/Surface Approaches to Learning: An Introduction.”
7	Presentations		Final version, journal or conference review
8	Presentations
9	Presentations
10	Interviewing for Field Work or Conducting a Job Search Peer Reviewing of Written Assignment		Draft of written assignment for peer reviewing (two copies)
11	Presentations (optional re-do)
12	Presentations (optional re-do)
13	Course Wrap-Up		Final version, written assignment