[+]  Advice on Research and Writing

A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for computer scientists).

Writing and Publishing

• How to Organize your Thesis, by John W. Chinneck.

• Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts, by William Pugh.

• Hints on good mathematical writing, by David Goss

• A primer on mathematical writing, by Steven L. Kleiman

• How To Have Your Abstract Rejected, by van Leunen and Lipton.

• An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, or, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper by Roy Levin and David D. Redell

• How to Get a Paper Accepted at OOPSLA, by Alan Snyder.

  • Includes comments from an OOPSLA program committee.

• Advice for 1996 POPL submissions

Research Skills

• Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual, by Dianne O'Leary

• How to be a Good Graduate Student/Advisor, by Marie desJardins

• A Letter to Research Students, by Duane A. Bailey

• How to do Research in the MIT AI Lab, ed. David Chapman

• The IUCS Graduate Student Survival Guide.

  • Includes Survival Skills for Graduate Women

  • and The Assistant Professor's Guide to the Galaxy.

Speaking

• How to Give a Good Research Talk, by Simon Peyton Jones et al.

• How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science, by Ian Parberry.

Career Development

• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre

• Computer Science Faculty and Research Positions

• The Young Scientists' Network

• CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Research

  • Includes a Graduate School Information Kit for Women in Computer Science and Engineering

  • and the Distributed Mentor Project for female undergraduates.

• ACM SIGMOD academic careers information

  • Includes transcripts from the Workshop on Academic Careers for Women.

Related Topics and Resources

• Information resources for graduate students by Jennifer Myers.

• A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science, by Ian Parberry.

• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research, from the National Academy of Sciences

• Papers on women in computer science.

  • Includes Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?, by Ellen Spertus.

• Study, Research, and Writing Skills web page from the American Communication Association.

• Information for current and prospective graduate students by Timothy Finin.

• A Guide for Applying to Graduate Schools by Piroz Mohseni.

• Ivan Sutherland, "Technology and Courage," in CMU Computer Science: A 25th Anniversary Commemorative, ed. Richard F. Rashid. ACM Press, 1991.

• Alan Jay Smith, "The task of the referee," IEEE Computer, April 1990, pp. 65-71.

Dissertation Advice

• Dissertation News, published by The Association for Support of Graduate Students.

• Resources for dissertation research (gopher)

• How to cope with "burnout", by Andreas Gehmeyr.

• How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation, by David Sternberg. St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-39606-6

• How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein. Signet Books. ISBN 0-451-16772-4

• Procrastination: Why you do it, what to do about it, by Jane Burka and Lenora Yuen. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-55089-X

Humor

• How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia by David Patterson

• Burnout Prevention and Recovery at MIT

• A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases

also see these:

• http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jasonh/advice.html

• How to Write a PhD Thesis