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Rights retained by the author.  \n“The Five-Paragraph Fetish,”“Academic Publishing as the Lust for Glory,” and “Luck and Pluck: Competing Accounts of Life in the Meritocracy” were all first published in Aeon. Reprinted by permission.  \n“Universities Give Away Knowledge and Sell Degrees” and“College Teaching Is Better than You’d Expect” were first published in my blog, David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing ([davidlabaree.com](davidlabaree.com)).  \n“Doctoral Dysfunction: The Growing Prominence of Academic Technicians and Justice Warriors” was first published in International Journal of the Historiography of Education. Reprinted by permission.  \n“Adventures in Scholarship” was first published in Wayne Urban (Ed.), Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education,(pp. 193-204 (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers) . Reprinted by permission.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThis book is the product of 40 years of teaching. For most of this time, I was working with graduate students in education at Michigan State and Stanford, an experience that gave me a great opportunity to reflect on what it means to be a scholar and to work toward becoming a scholar. The eleven essays I’m presenting here are the product of that reflection. I wrote them over the last decade and published them in a variety of venues. Recently, my friend Ed Schein suggested that I collect them into a little volume, which I decided was a good idea. My hope is that this book can serve as a useful guide for students entering into doctoral study and for scholars early in their careers in the academy. Its particular focus is on scholarship in the social sciences, but much of it may be relevant to people in other fields as well.  \nThese essays vary considerably – in length, from 600 words to 6,000 words; and in form, from simple exhortations to analyses with lots of citations. But what I hope they all have in common is a straightforward conversational tone and broad accessibility. These pieces spring from my eagerness, as I neared retirement, to shrug off the stilted academic voice I had to adopt four decades to clear the hurdle of peer reviewers and instead apply my teacher voice directly to the page.  \nBecause of the way in which these essays were written, the book’s structure is less planned than emergent. Instead of trying to weave them into a single coherent narrative, I decided to leave them in their original form, where they can be read independently of each other and in any order. This necessarily leads to a certain amount of repetition across the volume, but the structure allows students and instructors to pick out particular pieces that meet their needs. The result is a book that is organized into three overlapping sections, which are largely chronological across the early years  \nof becoming a scholar: doctoral study; scholarly writing; and the academic life. Let me say a little about each essay.  \nDoctoral Study  \nAdvice for New PhD Students  \nAt both Michigan State and Stanford, I taught a required proseminar for incoming doctoral students, and this primer distills some of the key","cbCaicuXaZFYUxmr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicuXaZFYUxmr","pdf",483509,116,"English","# Introduction\n## Doctoral Study\n## Scholarly Writing\n## Academic Life\n# Advice for New PhD Students\n# A Sermon on Educational Research\n# The Esthetic Pleasures of Scholarly Writing\n# Academic Writing as an Exercise in Arrogance and Humility\n# The Five-Paragraph Fetish\n# Adventures in Scholarship\n# The Lust for Academic Fame: College Teaching Is Better Than You’d Expect","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of Being a Scholar?\",\"answer\":\"The book shares reflections and guidance based on decades of teaching, aiming to help students entering doctoral study and scholars early in their careers in the academy.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author describe the intended structure of the essays?\",\"answer\":\"The essays are left in their original form so they can be read independently in any order, even if that causes some repetition across the volume.\"},{\"question\":\"What core advice does the author give new PhD students?\",\"answer\":\"He urges them to stop being a good student, take control of their program, build their own conceptual framework, learn to skim, and develop their own academic voice while having fun.\"}]","Being a Scholar - Reflections on Doctoral Study, Scholarly Writing, and Academic Life | PDF",292]