Resources for Academia
- Dissertation
advice from Olin Shivers
- Pretty hard-core advice from Matt Might concerning
what
cs majors should know.
- Good writing
by Marc Raibert
- How
to Write a Dissertation by Douglas E. Comer, concentrates on
low-level aspects (formal grammar, no jokes, sit up straight and
stop slouching) and is thus actually useful
- The indispensable The
Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Coherent writing at the sentence and single-paragraph level: The
Science of Scientific Writing by George D. Gopen and Judith
A. Swan, American Scientist Nov-Dec 1990
- Technical
Writing for Computer Engineers and Computer Scientists by
Kevin Karplus, Dan Scripture
- Always
remember Writing is
Easy! by Steve Martin
- If you want your papers to be as compelling as novels, consider
the Ten
Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do).
- Talk
on talks by Olivier Danvy
- How
to give a good research talk by Simon Peyton Jones et al
- Some
lecturing heuristics by Patrick H. Winston
- How to present a paper in theoretical computer
science
(ps,
pdf)
by Ian Parberry
- How
to give a talk by Bruce Donald (focuses on visual aides)
- Changing the
culture of academic public speaking by Paul N. Edwards
(slanted towards humanities)
- Graduate
School Survival Guide by Wanda Pratt.
- Tips on the job interview process
(pdf,
html)
by Jeanette Wing (includes a section on the talk)
- Page for
reviewers by Barak Pearlmutter.
- Wisdom and
observations, by Richard W. Hamming