Abstract

The following essay was originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 15 October 2004. Arguing that graduate students need to be taught to be the conductor of an idea, the essay asserts that graduate instruction needs serious rethinking by coordinating graduate education not only with the job market but also with the book market. The result may be a radically changed relationship of graduate study to publishing – one in which an academic's second book is really her first.

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