Welcome to the Professional World: Success Principles for Entering the Workforce teaches students the kind of professionalism they need to know in order to transition from school to work. The book coaches them in success-oriented fundamentals.A collection of notes, resources, and short essays, the book is based on interviews with those who are new to the workforce along with their supervisors. The material gives aspiring professionals insight into the workplace. It spares them the kind of embarrassment that comes from making basic behavioral mistakes in a professional setting.This new, updated edition includes important information on benefits and financial planning, extensive bulleted "dos and don'ts", e-mail ethics and efficacy, a section on work-life balance, and information on romances in the workplace.Filled with useful advice, Welcome to the Professional World is an excellent resource for any course that prepares students to leave the classroom and enter the next phase of their working lives whether as recent high school graduates or as post-graduate school skilled professionals.

This practical book sets out how to approach each stage of your research project, from choosing a research design and methodology to collecting and analysing data and communicating your results – and showcases best practice along the way. Packed with pragmatic guidance for tackling research in the real world, this fourth edition: Offers support for diving into a project using digital data, with how-to guidance on conducting online and social media research Empowers you to confidently disseminate your work and present with impact Helps you map out your research journey and put a plan in place with decision trees in every chapter Challenges you to be reflective and critical about the research you consume and undertake Zina O′Leary′s detailed and down-to-earth approach gives you the research skills and momentum you need to successfully complete your research project.

The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education brings together leading thinkers and doers to assess the new realities of the Internet in higher education. Edited by Blackboard, Incorporated Chairman Matthew Pittinsky, the book identifies key drivers of technology-related change, five transformative Internet-based learning practices most likely to succeed and explores every facet of Internet-related change. The book also includes original contributions from Neil Postman (The End of Education) and Arthur Levine, President, Columbia University Teacher's College.