Resources for PhD Students

Advice

General

• Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students by Phil Agre - An excellent online article about (almost) all you need to know about launching your academic career. Don't wait till the end of your PhD to read this! The earlier you read it, the better chance you have of following the advice.
• The Researcher's Bible by Alan Bundy et al - very good advice on research and the thesis [pdf]
• How to Have a Bad Career In Research/Academia by David Patterson
• Ten Lessons I wish I Had Been Taught by Gian-Carlo Rota

Writing (Thesis/Papers/Posters/...)

• How to organize your thesis by John W. Chinneck
• Writing a good grant proposal by Simon Peyton
• Kent Beck's advice on paper writing (aka "How to Get a Paper Accepted at OOPSLA") - Page hosted by Michael Godfrey
• Creating effective poster presentations by George Hess, Kathryn Tosney, Leon Liegel

Presentation

• Oral Presentation Advice by Mark D. Hill
• How to Give a Good Research Talk by Simon Peyton (also includes advice on writing a paper)

CV/Resume writing

• Links to help on writing your CV/resume
• How to write a masterpiece of a resume

Academic Jobs

• This page has a list of job sites
• IEEE and ACM have job listings and periodic email alerts
• jobs.ac.uk - job listings and periodic email alerts
• seek.com.au - job listings and periodic email alerts
  
• Advice on applying for a postdoc position
• Academic Job Interview Advice by Mary Corbin Sies

Resources on Software Engineering Research

• What Makes Good Research in Software Engineering? by Mary Shaw
• Where to publish? : conferences vs journals by  Michael Ernst

English Usage

• Common grammar traps - 'should I use toward or towards?' etc.
• Audio pronunciations of English words 

Humor

• PhDComics: Piled higher and deeper, a grad student comic strip - subscribe to receive comic strips in email. Cartoonist is a ex-grad student of Stanford, the characters may be closer to your grad life than you may think!
• SCIGen: Write (generate) a scientific paper at the click of a button - Just enter author names, and hit the generate button. SCIGen system will generate the paper for you. The result is impressive, and some of these generated papers have been accepted at conferences!
• Annals of Improbable Research - Science humor magazine about research that makes you LAUGH and then THINK!
• Absurd Inventions - Claimed to be based on actual US patents!

FAQ

• what is the difference between Resume and CV?
• What is the difference between References and Bibliography?

Other Similar Pages

• Advice on Research and Writing - Mark Leone's collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively
• Professional Tips for PhD Students by onlinePhd.org

*If you know of more resources for PhD students, I'm interested to know. Drop me an email.

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