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Research Resources

This page contains a number of online resources that we hope will help you become a better researcher.

How to Be a Good Graduate Student, by Marie desJardins.
Discusses some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful.
Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual, by Dianne O'Leary.
The title is pretty much self explanatory :)
A Letter to Research Students, by Duane A. Bailey.
Computer Science Research and Writing, by Gary Leavens.
Nice general advice about becoming a good researcher.
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia, by David A. Patterson.
Some very bad, but incredibly common, mistakes researchers make in their careers.
Empirical Methods for AI and CS, by Paul Cohen et al.
Great tutorial on very common, and very big, mistakes experimental AI researchers make, and suggestions on how to avoid them. Applies to experimental CS in general. (In PowerPoint format.)

Finding Research on the Web, by Justin Zobel.
An index page of great site to find references and citations of CS research.

How to Read an Engineering Research Paper, by Bill Griswold.
Notes on developing an effective reading style for research papers in Engineering and similar fields.
A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science, by Ian Parberry.
A referee's guide for theoretical computer science. De facto standard reference for theoretical CS and beyond.
Issues in writing and receiving a review, by Olivier Danvy.
Very nice overview of the reviewing process.

How to Have Your Abstract Rejected, by Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton.
Dos and don'ts for preparing an extended abstract for conference submission.
Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts, by William Pugh.
How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper, by Roy Levin and David D. Redell.
Issues in making an written presentation, by Olivier Danvy.
Some Hints on Mathematical Style, by David Goss.

Issues in making an oral presentation, by Olivier Danvy.
Excellent primer.
Advice for new speakers, by Aaron Stump.
Nice set of suggestions for new (and not so new) speakers.
How to Give a Good Research Talk, by Simon Peyton Jones et al.
Some useful suggestions.
How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science, Ian Parberry.
More suggestions, with emphasis on presenting theoretical work.

Last updated: Jan 18, 2005