Advice for Researchers and Students

by Tao Xie 

A LONG list of Categorized Advice Collection

For All Students and Researchers

• Tao Xie's Blog on Research and Advising (Blog in Chinese)
  
• Advanced Levels
  
• Advice on Writing Research Papers 
• Mapping out a Research Agenda
  
• Advice on Getting a Start into Research
• Normal Levels
  
• Common Technical Writing Issues
• Critical Skills for Research/Career Development
  
• Graduate Student Survival/Success Guide
• Research Skills
• Research Ethics
• Tools and Tips for Writing Paper
• A LONG list of Categorized Advice Collection

Primarily for Undergraduate Students

• FAQs and Advice for Students
• Advice on Preparing a Personal Statements
• Advice Collection on Fellowship Applications (with some info applicable to graduate students)
  

Strongly Recommended Advice by Others

• Advice to new researchers by Mark Wegman
• Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student by Manuel Blum
• You and your research by Richard Hamming
  
• Technology and courage by Ivan Sutherland
• Desires and Diversions (online lectures) by Allen Newell (slides)
  
• Heilmeier Catechism
• Reflections and advice on life as a mid-stage Ph.D. student by Philip Guo

Other Links

• NCSU ASE REU Blog
• Introductory Readings of Sofware Testing Research.

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