RC JobGroup Materials
The JobGroup for Rhetoric and Composition students seeking employment meets on Thursdays at 3 unless there is a Hutton Lecture.
The calendar will be distributed at the first meeting on August 18 at noon.
The links below lead to sites helpful in the academic job search for Ph.D. students in Rhetoric and Composition.
Because this is a dynamic site, please suggest new links you find that may also be helpful.
Finding Job Searching Advice and Sample Materials
Advice Columns and Articles
- Chronicle of Higher Education Advice Section (includes blogs that give advice and vitae blogs
http://chronicle.com/section/Advice/66/ - "What Search Committees Want," by
Walter Broughton and William Collogue.Reprinted from the 2001 issue of Profession (New York: MLA, 2001)
- The Rejection Letter I Wish I Could Send
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/07/2008072401c.htm - The Rhetoric of the CV
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rhetoric-of-the-CV/131404/
- Chronicle of Higher Education Careers Section (now called vitae)
https://chroniclevitae.com/news - Chronicle's Vitae database of sample syllabi
https://chroniclevitae.com/document_library/syllabi - MLA Advice to Job Seekers
http://www.mla.org/career_resources#careerandjob - MLA Checklist for Job Seekers
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/Career-Resources/The-Job-Search-Information-for-Job-Seekers-and-Hiring-Departments/Checklist-for-Job-Seekers - University Council for Educational Administration's Job Search Handbook
http://www.ucea.org/opportunities/ucea-job-search-handbook/
Advice on Writing Specialized Documents (i.e., documents not required for every academic application)
- How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy, by Gabriela Montell http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2003/03/2003032702c.htm
- Writing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement, in Ohio State Materials on Teaching Portfolios http://ucat.osu.edu/professional-development/teaching-portfolio/philosophy/
- Writing a Research Statement, by Jim Austin http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/1820/writing_a_research_plan
written for the sciences, but some advice is useful - Advice on Research and Teaching Statements, U of Illinois
http://www.grad.illinois.edu/careers/other-materials - E-application Etiquette, by John L. Sullivan and Sue Curry Jansen
http://chronicle.com/article/E-Application-Etiquette/44933/
Locating Academic Job Ads
Professional Organizations
- MLA Job Information List
http://www.ade.org - H-Net (host of H-Rhetor)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs - ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing)
http://www.attw.org - NCTE
http://www.ncte.org/career - Writing Program Administrators Job Board
http://wpacouncil.org/taxonomy/term/32 - Linguistic Society of America
http://www.linguisticsociety.org/jobs-center
- Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/jobs - HigherEdJobs
https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/default.cfm - Academic360
http://www.academic360.com/ - The University Jobs (links to HR sites)
http://www.univjobs.com/
- Simplyhired
http://www.simplyhired.com/ - Indeed
http://www.indeed.com/
Researching Prospective Employers
When institutions ask to see a writing sample, they have a definite interest. If you did not research a school before sending out your applications, you want to research the school that asks for more materials at this time. While online information may be out-of-date, it is normally more current than the information you would find in the college catalogs at the Undergraduate Library [and to check you can look for the most recent date of updating].
If you are researching a number of schools, you might want to use directories of websites to locate schools, departments, and programs:
- College Source Online is a database available through the Purdue Library
- List of World University Home Pageshttp://univ.cc/
- College Home Pages [2001]
http://www.genesis.net.au/links/unis/cdemello/ - Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition
https://ccccdoctoralconsortium.org - English Departments [not updated since 2005]
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dept-Eng.html - Writing Center Directory
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/writeplace/wcd/index.html - List of online writing centers
http://writingcenters.org/links/writing-centers-online/ - Lee Campbell's links for R/C
http://www.valdosta.edu/~jlcampbe/ - Mark Gellis' links for R/C
http://paws.kettering.edu/~mgellis/rhetoric1.htm - http://paws.kettering.edu/~mgellis/rhetoric2.htm
You may also want to find out general information about the colleges/universities:
- Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ - US Dept. of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx - US Dept. of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
hhttp://nces.ed.gov - AAUP Censured Administrations
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/censuredadmins/