Science: A Craft
Having the right tools at hand, enables scientists to conduct their work in an effective and efficient manner. While some tools might be tailored to specific fields of research, most of them are important for all of us: communicating scientific results, writing in an accessible manner, visualizing and presenting results, and reviewing the work of peers. A mentor can help in choosing the right tools for becoming a respected scientist, and save lots of time. Guidance form a mentor that is established in the field of research is crucial, for example, for writing successful grant proposals, or choosing the right publication venue for a given work.
Resources
Since our goal is not to provide "yet another guideline to become the next Einstein", we just provide a collection of Web resources that might help you in your next research endeavour. Please feel free to contact us and propose additions to this list.
- How to Write Papers So People Can Read Them
- How to Write a great Research Paper
- How to give a great Research Talk
- How to write a great Research Proposal
- Mathematical Writing
- How to Write Mathematics
- A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science
- The Task of the Referee
- Hints for Referees
- How to Have Your Abstract Rejected
- Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts
- How to Write an Extended Abstract so that it is more Likely to be Accepted
- The Tools and Techniques of the Adversarial Reviewer
- Insights and Lessons Learned from Analyzing ICSE 2014 Survey and Review Data
- The Politics of Publication
- How to Handle Authorship Disputes: A guide for new Researchers
- Reviewing the Literature: A Short Guide for Research Students
- A Brief Guide to Writing the Philosophy Paper
- Writing a good History Paper
- Quick Guide to Science Communication
- How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem
- The Pink Guide (Reading, Writing, Revising Philosophy Papers)
- Writing an Effective Conclusion
- The Art of Writing and Speaking
- ACM Author Rights
- Selecting Publication Venues: Where to Publish?
- What are the Criteria for DBLP to Index a Journal or Conference?
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