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My Tips to Graduate Students
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Check if you have enough motivations to get your degree. Check if you want to work hard, no matter how hard it can be to you, to get your degree.
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How to be a bad graduate student?
Dave Patterson in UC Berkeley has some talks about “How to have a bad career in research/academia” . Here is my version of “how to be a bad graduate student”.
If you have the following symptoms, you have the working habits of a bad student (from Dr. Daniel Lemire).
cannot keep track of tasks assigned to you and be responsible for such tasks;
lies about what has been done and what hasn’t been done;
repeatedly ignores some of your boss’ phone calls or emails.
If you meet one of the following criteria, you probably can’t finish a decent thesis (from Dr. Bruce Spencer ).
1. weak language skills (written and oral communication are weak with respect to technical topics -- even for many native speakers of English);
2. not open to research culture (student does not make an effort to talk to others about research and does not come to colloquia or group meetings);
3. unclear about objectives (supervisor does not portray the point of the research and how it fits in the big picture);
4. laziness, inability or unwillingness to focus (student does not come to work regularly, or dissipates research energy when there);
5. insufficient background (student does not have clear grasp of the essential elements of computer science and the required background for the research topic);
6. no research spark (student does not possess an innate ability to innovate, especially necessary for PhD.).
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My collections on advices on research and writing for computer science
Dr. David Patterson (U.C. Berkeley): “How to have a bad career in research/academia” (many presentations about research, paper and proejcts).
Dr. Mark Leone (CMU): Collected Advice on Research and Writing (many useful links).
Dr. Jim Patton (Northwest U): How to do a research project and write a good paper (one page to read).
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My books on research and writing (for you to borrow)
Feibelman, P., A Ph.D. is not Enough!, Perseus Publishing (1993)
Frederland, A. and Folt, C., Writing Successful Science Proposals, Yale University Press (2000)
Day, R. How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 5th edition, Oryx (1998)
Day, R. Scientific English: a Guide for Scientists and Other Professionals, 2nd edition, Oryx (1995)
Booth, V., Communicating in Science: Writing a scientific paper and speaking at scientific meetings, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press (1993)
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Philosophy of science
I found some knowledge of philosophy of science is good for guiding research. I like the course, Research Theory of Science, by Dr. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic very much. She is a researcher I met in MBR04 conference.
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