Scholarship Skills

Useful Links

TeX

• Yan Chen's support for annotated bibliographies

Grammar

• Use and non-use of articles (Online Writing Lab at Purdue)

Proofreading

• Ooligan Press Proofreading marks — used when marking-up Manuscripts
  
• Why we still need proofreading marks

On the Scientific Process

• Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science (Thanks to Bill Howe)

On Being a Professor

• Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter

On Conferences

• Chairing a Conference Session

On Writing

• Passive Voice: how to recognize it and why you shouldn't use it
• Alan T. Sherman  on writing a technical report
  
• Phil Koopman on how to write an abstract  (Thanks to Mark Morrissey)
• van Leunan and Lipton on getting your abstract rejected  (Thanks to Tim Sauerwein)
• Use of apostrophes (Thanks to Francis Chang)

Citations

• ACM Citation Guide
  
• IEEE Citation Guide
  

Redmine

• CAT Redmine guide
  

On Giving Research Talks

• Robert Drysdale on Giving Technical Talks  (Thanks to Ralf Juengling)
• Peyton Jones, Hughes and Launchbury on How to Give a Good Research Talks

On Theses

• Chris Riesbeck on What is a Thesis Defense?   (Thanks to Paul Benninghoff)
• Thesis defense tips by Abderisak Adam
  

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