by Frédo Durand
Write Good Papers! guest lecture for 6.UAR, March 2013
How to Write a Bad Article (endnote I gave at the MIT Student Oxygen Workshop, 2003)
The choices we make (talk at Harvard where I discuss the many levels of choice involved in research and how much importance we should give them in a paper/presentation) (ppt, pdf)
Notes on writing (draft, work in progress)
Notes on talks (draft, work in progress)
Life after the PhD (slides for a group discussion we had.)
Peer review (slides)
Faculty job talks: tips from the faculty
What faculty members are looking for in a grad school application essay
Principles of Effective Research by Michael Nielsen
An Opinionated Guide to ML Research by John Schulman
How to write the introduction of a research paper by Kate Saenko
Excellent writing paper slides and video, Giving talks slides & video, bySimon Peyton
How to write a siggraph paper, Siggraph Asia course
Good Writing by Marc Raibert
How to do research by Bill Freeman
How to speak by Patrick Winston, with summaries here and here. And lecturing heuristics by Patrick.
How to get a faculty offer by MIT's John Guttag
Assembling A Talk: Two Wrong Ways and a Right Way by Theodore Kim
Shortcomings in scientific writing by Jean Luc Doumont (excellent!!)
English communication for scientists
Effective graphical displays by Doumont
Publications: Publish like a pro (Kendall Powell, Nature)
The Science of Scientific Writing by George Gopen, Judith Swan
John Owens's advice and notes on common errors in technical writing.
Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math by Jonathan Shewchuk
Aaron Hertzmann's links
Writing good technical papers by Aaron Hertzmann
Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught, by Gian-Carlo Rota
Nature's guide for mentors.
Writing Bad Papers, Writing Good Papers (and other cool talks) by Tamara Munzner
Richard Hamming ``You and Your Research''
On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research
Advice on Research and Writing (at CMU)
How to Succeed in Graduate School by Marie desJardins
Advice compiled by Michael Ernst
How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper by Roy Levin and David D. Redell
How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected by Jim Kajiya
Things I Hope Not to See or Hear at SIGGRAPH by Jim Blinn
How to write a siggraph paper by Jim Blinn
Advice on good/bad writing (list compiled by Fabrice Neyret)
Non-Technical Talks by David Patterson, U.C. Berkeley (advice on writing and career)
How to Have Your Abstract Rejected by Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton
Simon Peyton Jones: How to write a great research paper
Lots of advice at the Journal of Machine Learning Gossip
How to Get a Paper Accepted at OOPSLA
What it's like to be a POPL referee
Greg Turk’s advice on reviewing
A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science
Rules for Referees by Bernard K. Forscher
The task of the referee by Alan Jay Smith
David Gifford. How to referee a research paper
About the word paradigm:
http://skepdic.com/paradigm.html
http://www.robertfulford.com/Paradigm.html
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=139035
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm
http://www.highereducation.org/crosstalk/ct1099/voices1099-sallo.shtml
http://home.btclick.com/scimah/paradigm.htm
Online articles are more cited
Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair"
Misc.
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1439