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Talks and essays about research skills.
Research advice
Dave Patterson's talk on
How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Pre-PhD and Post-PhD
Richard Hamming's
You and Your Research
talk
A blog post by Michael Nielsen on
Principles of Effective Research
Useful advice on
writing a great research proposal
by Simon Peyton Jones and Alan Bundy
Tips for writing a research paper
Writing advice
from Dave Patterson
Top 10 tips for writing a paper
by Jim Kurose
Read
The Elements of Style
by Strunk and White. It is a classic manual on the principles of English language
Advice on giving a research talk
An excellent talk by Jean-luc Doumont on
creating effective slides
How to Give a Great Research Talk
by Simon Peyton Jones
David Patterson's ten commandments:
How to Give a Bad Talk
Tips for reading/reviewing a paper
The three-pass method for reading research papers is described by S. Keshav in this short paper
How to Read a Paper
Graham Cormode's paper on
How NOT to Review a Paper
Alan Jay Smith's article entitled
The Task of the Referee