One way of looking at a doctoral program in anthropology (or in anything else) is as one of those "function" problems in math, where a number goes into a box and comes out as a different number, and ...

It’s a common gripe of professors and employers: Kids these days just can’t write. Thirty-five years ago -- when today’s bosses and faculty members were college students – similar laments about the ...

This is a GradHacker post by Stephanie Hedge, a PhD candidate at Ball State University in Rhetoric and Composition, @slhedge A few months ago, I wrote a GradHacker post on studying for comprehensive ...

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Students entering their first year of law school are frequently shocked by the feedback they receive on the first assignment they turn in for their introductory Legal Writing course. Often, these ...

It’s a feeling you’ve almost certainly experienced before – the fear of waiting for an exam to start, heart thumping, palms sweating and brow furrowing. You worry about whether you’ve prepared ...

Sian Beilock, lead author of a new study appearing this month in the journal Science, said writing about test-related worries for 10 minutes immediately before taking an exam is an effective way to ...