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2012/05/07 | 3,043 | 13,020 | <issue_start>username_0: While it is an unethical academic practice, it is a fact that most recommendation letters for MS degrees in US and Europe from countries like India and China are written by students themselves. Students apply en masse; the faculty strength in departments in many universities is small; the few p... |
2012/05/07 | 331 | 1,419 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I got a cite in a research paper where the author cited my work as [first name] et al, where it should have been [last name] et al. Is there any problem for indexing purpose? should I contact the journal editor about this incident and ask for correction?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, ... |
2012/05/07 | 552 | 2,247 | <issue_start>username_0: Some preprints on arXiv have 1.5- or double-spaced lines, making it less pleasant to read and more wasteful to print.
Is there a reason for it, except for the laziness/sloppiness?
(If drafts were >1-spaced, one need to change only one option.)<issue_comment>username_1: I don't like it either. ... |
2012/05/07 | 545 | 2,205 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in answers for both the individual faculty member and for the department as a whole.
For the individual prospective faculty member - How long does the prospective faculty member's visit usually take, especially compared with the visit of a prospective PhD student applicant? And... |
2012/05/08 | 689 | 2,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd imagine that a good fraction would actually start to tire (a bit) of the repetitiveness of describing their research hundreds of times over, and would probably want to talk about something else.. After all, does the professor usually benefit when they talk about their research to a random u... |
2012/05/08 | 1,293 | 5,769 | <issue_start>username_0: Many teachers at my university have produced custom course books for their students. These books contain all original content, written by the teacher, and tailored specifically for the course and students. The school does publish a trade journal, but to provide the lowest costs available, and p... |
2012/05/08 | 683 | 2,830 | <issue_start>username_0: A tenure from a good university is generally considered to be the pinnacle of academic achievements. It is packed with so many benefits that it is easy to lose direction in one's research career post tenure.
* In the event that such a thing happens, i.e., if a professor loses interest in resea... |
2012/05/08 | 510 | 2,399 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently submitted a paper to a conference requiring anonymous submission, meaning that the name of the authors should not be included, and no obvious self-reference should be made. The problem is that I add additional information relevant to the submission, such as some proofs and some co... |
2012/05/08 | 2,180 | 9,310 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
I am asking this question in the context of the long running plagiarism scandal in Germany.The most prominent victim of the scandal of plagiarized doctoral dissertations by politicians was former defense minister [Guttenberg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenber... |
2012/05/08 | 397 | 1,870 | <issue_start>username_0: Most bibliography formats require the city of publication for books. Why? In this digital era, ISBN would be way more important. But even before the digitalization of everything, why was the city of publication important?
I can imagine some purposes:
1. to distinguish potential same names of... |
2012/05/09 | 2,016 | 7,686 | <issue_start>username_0: Critical reading is a very useful skill for most PhD students (and postdocs and researchers in general).
Instead of assuming that everything you read in a scientific paper is right, it's useful to learn how to evaluate the paper critically: e.g., to question its content, to identify shortcomin... |
2012/05/09 | 780 | 2,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper which I'm interested in submitting to arXiv.org.
However, the [submission guidelines](http://arxiv.org/help/submit#responsibility) say an institutional affiliation is required for submission. I've graduated in physics from Unicamp in Brazil, but I didn't follow a scientific care... |
2012/05/10 | 1,353 | 5,657 | <issue_start>username_0: What if I submit a same preprint to several open access repositories, e.g. arxiv, vixra, philica etc.?
I guess doing so would give to a paper more visibility. But would it be a bad practice? Would it be unethical? Scientific community would complain or blacklist me? Is there any copyright issu... |
2012/05/10 | 604 | 2,213 | <issue_start>username_0: For computer science tenure-track faculty, the standard teaching load at a major research university in the US is 1-1 (meaning 1 course each of the two semesters). My understanding is that in math the standard teaching load is 2-1 (two courses one semester, one course the other).
What are the ... |
2012/05/11 | 1,414 | 5,797 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a good practice of citing (or not) a paper or preprint that you consider flawed (or at best - totally incomprehensible)?
Once I had a problem of that sort. I wrote a paper on a topic, which was not very popular. Even if I was not using other's results directly, I wanted to cite a few ... |
2012/05/11 | 1,011 | 4,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I am attempting to apply for a PhD but made rather a mess of my masters. Advice from anyone involved in the process is appreciated.
I am applying in the UK, and have a good bachelor's, which is all that is necesary for funding. I worked for 2 years before doing a master's. My field is compute... |
2012/05/12 | 599 | 2,467 | <issue_start>username_0: Universities do encourage close cooperation between students and faculty. However, how does one prevent close working or personal relationships from affecting grading, so that it can be carried out fairly and uniformly? Is there a method of avoiding "playing favorites" with students a faculty m... |
2012/05/12 | 1,017 | 4,503 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me explain my situation a little bit, then I will try to make it more general for others to benefit.
I am graduating in a month and getting my bachelor degree in computer science. I did apply to graduate programs of US universities, and it did not end up as I expected. Right now, I am stil... |
2012/05/12 | 2,424 | 9,885 | <issue_start>username_0: If a professor is teaching a student currently, is it okay if he/she friends the student on social media sites such as Facebook or Google Plus?<issue_comment>username_1: It depends a little on the circumstances, but generally not. If the student is your Ph.D. student, then it's probably OK to a... |
2012/05/12 | 923 | 4,369 | <issue_start>username_0: How should I interpret a journal rejection of "not of sufficient interest" or "does not meet journal standards"?
This is what happened to me particularly. Papers were rejected for those reasons and the journal never told me that they had found any error or that anything was wrong or inconclusi... |
2012/05/13 | 606 | 2,764 | <issue_start>username_0: I live in the UK, study Computing and I'm about to start my final year. I have been told by friends that the University holds the right to my final year project. Is there a way of getting the rights and intellectual property of my final year project?<issue_comment>username_1: I expect that it d... |
2012/05/14 | 568 | 2,458 | <issue_start>username_0: Undergraduates have several-month long "sabbaticals" every years. While graduate students shouldn't expect to have the same thing, could it maybe be justifiable for them to take a several-month long sabbatical in the middle of graduate school? These things can be really helpful for things like ... |
2012/05/14 | 936 | 4,206 | <issue_start>username_0: And how often does it happen? I know someone who was de facto kicked out of Harvard due to some conflict with his advisers, though he was later able to transfer to Caltech.
As an example - what if there was an irreconcilable difference between the student and adviser, and what if other adviser... |
2012/05/15 | 1,125 | 4,707 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a civil engineer myself and found no options for depositing engineering related **pre-print papers** in any online repositories. Is there any easy solution to this? For example, academia.edu lets one upload their papers but other people must have account to download the paper which is kinda... |
2012/05/16 | 1,370 | 6,113 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes we may ask questions on stack exchange or online forums wherein the response is helpful or even essential to a piece of work that gets published in an academic journal. If this occurs, how should credit be given to those involved in the exchange? Should they all be included as authors... |
2012/05/17 | 596 | 2,433 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a general tendency of students (master's or less) to rate highly those courses that create a value for them at the industry. For example, in CS, networking or OS courses are found to be attractive by many students simply because these are (almost) indispensable for most job interviews.... |
2012/05/17 | 2,158 | 9,161 | <issue_start>username_0: Discussions about academic publication (for example, the recent [Elsevier boycott](http://thecostofknowledge.com/), the [actual cost of publication](http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/), open-access initiatives by [universities](http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/i... |
2012/05/18 | 2,545 | 10,186 | <issue_start>username_0: What do academicians need to keep in mind when they are conversing with a fellow researcher whom they do not think highly of? I was reminded of *A Beautiful Mind*, where Nash (Crowe) says [the following](http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/247553):
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> I imagine you're getting quite used ... |
2012/05/18 | 1,287 | 5,273 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> "Luck favors the prepared mind"
>
>
> ( [Louis Pasteur](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur) )
>
>
>
During the MS degree program or PhD program, it's advisable for a good student to get used to take a look on scientific activities of research groups he want to join, after gra... |
2012/05/19 | 865 | 3,936 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose you find out that someone you know well or work with is reviewing the same journal paper you are reviewing (i.e., finding out this information on your own, and not via the journal or editor, assuming a blind process).
Can you discuss the paper? Can you discuss your reviews?<issue_comm... |
2012/05/19 | 983 | 4,445 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a mid-level PhD student in a STEM field (maybe 2-3 years into the program), he and his advisor are working on something relatively new and interesting but they have reached a point where the research isn't moving ahead. How do you get out of this situation?
All papers have been read,... |
2012/05/20 | 737 | 3,210 | <issue_start>username_0: The metric I see most on the internet and on journals' home pages is the 'Impact Factor'. Are there any other metrics that are considered as important as (or more important than) the Impact Factor?<issue_comment>username_1: Considered important by whom? Funding agencies will obviously prefer so... |
2012/05/20 | 686 | 2,864 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any compulsory rule for researchers to have publications in restricted access publication platforms? What if one has majority of his publications in open access journals?<issue_comment>username_1: No. The important point is whether the journals are *good* (= publish good papers) rather... |
2012/05/20 | 1,306 | 5,691 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for the PhD program in mathematics, usually, one is not required to specify in what field (e.g., PDE, dynamical system, etc.) he/she intends to do. However, I don't know whether it will be *disadvantage* that one does not have a specific field in mind at all.
I ask this question... |
2012/05/21 | 1,730 | 6,303 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
I like the idea of writing an academic book.
* It currently looks better on a CV when applying for jobs, grants, promotions, etc. than a blog post, or a website.
* Libraries and people archive the work
* Most of the best academic content currently seems to end up in books and j... |
2012/05/22 | 846 | 3,741 | <issue_start>username_0: Could multiple advisers mean that it might be easier for you to get funding? (since you're not just limited to one person?) Could it also mean that you get more overall input in your project (the input of 3 different people), and that maybe your project will be geared in a way that it's "intere... |
2012/05/22 | 758 | 3,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if there is a rule of thumb for the following.
What percentage of students that are accepted for a PhD position were initially put on a waiting list, and were only admitted after high-scoring applicants did not enroll?<issue_comment>username_1: The answer (as in case of most an... |
2012/05/22 | 1,140 | 4,737 | <issue_start>username_0: If a master's degree candidate needs to select a thesis topic, but their advisor is unwilling to offer suggestions on the matter, how should one go about selecting a thesis?
* How might one select an area to study?
* How can one evaluate if if is a suitable topic?
* Does the thesis need to foc... |
2012/05/22 | 1,327 | 5,264 | <issue_start>username_0: Compared to writing a research paper, I found writing a grant proposal to be much more intimidating, because there aren't any finished products that I can compare to. I am wondering if there are any good samples out there so that I can see what good proposals are like, especially for social sci... |
2012/05/23 | 1,461 | 6,105 | <issue_start>username_0: Academic blogs and websites are emerging as an important component of academic discourse.
However, I often lack confidence that the content will remain accessible in the short term (e.g., 5 years) let alone the longer term (10, 20, 50, 100 years).
An important function of journals is to arch... |
2012/05/23 | 832 | 3,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I think contributions to StackExchange constitute a valuable thing for an academic to do. In many cases such contributions are directly related to the aims of an academic department: community engagement, building new knowledge, etc.
This is particularly clear for sites that directly align with... |
2012/05/23 | 1,104 | 4,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a learning disability where I can only learn through seeing (not seeing and hearing). As a result, I need to have headphones in class to block all sound. Should I just tell the professor this?<issue_comment>username_1: It would not consider the request rude, as long as you have a reasona... |
2012/05/23 | 1,517 | 6,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I generally chase after whatever my adviser/supervisor tells me to do, although I know that it's sometimes a project that they don't want to spend their time on. I know that I can learn a lot even when I go after such "wild goose chases".
I recently talked to a PhD student though, and he advis... |
2012/05/24 | 1,062 | 4,136 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there expected dressing norms at faculty interviews? Will a casual tee-jeans be discouraged?
In the same vein, what is expected when a student visits the campus for an interview?<issue_comment>username_1: While its not mandatory to wear a suit for a faculty interview, it doesn't hurt, and ... |
2012/05/24 | 1,210 | 4,846 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to release a Technical Report that will be archived and made available online by the university's library. An abridged version of the work was accepted by a peer-reviewed conference and will be published in the proceedings. For this to happen, I have to sign a [copyright form](http:/... |
2012/05/24 | 1,512 | 6,368 | <issue_start>username_0: It's always worthwhile to take some time to try to figure it out by yourself. But eventually there's a point where you're unsure how much more time it would take to figure it out by yourself (which could take far longer than you originally think), and when asking for help could be more helpful.... |
2012/05/25 | 1,009 | 4,259 | <issue_start>username_0: My research interests are shifting, due to papers I read and talks or conferences I attend (and also due to change of tastes).
However, I don't know how to communicate it on my CV or my website.
One the one hand, I am eager to move into new fields, and I am eager to learn more (and they are m... |
2012/05/25 | 3,206 | 13,906 | <issue_start>username_0: These days there is so much material on the web that it is difficult to set good exercises/assignments for students, because they often find the questions on the web simply by googling (or else ask at a site such as <http://cs.stackexchange.com>).
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> How do people deal with this problem? How... |
2012/05/25 | 1,764 | 7,438 | <issue_start>username_0: If I were a Spanish Major as an undergraduate and decide to pursue a PhD in a completely unrelated field (like Theoretical Physics), it makes sense to give a qualifying exam to check that I had the necessary skills to begin the program. But if I'm coming from a B.S in math to a PhD program also... |
2012/05/26 | 491 | 2,085 | <issue_start>username_0: Like a halloween mask to conceal injuries of a burn?<issue_comment>username_1: Of course. If there's a medical reason for it and the student can produce an appropriate doctor's certificate or what not. You would need to check the regulations.
It probably depends on what sort of mask it is. If ... |
2012/05/27 | 491 | 2,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I just submitted a paper to a conference. The reviewers gave me their responses only two days before the deadline to resubmit the paper. They seemed to indicate that my paper was on topic, and had good preliminary results, but they seemed to indicate that it was lacking more results. I understa... |
2012/05/27 | 567 | 2,598 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you wrote a good thesis on some discovery you made in physics.
If it was a mediocre discovery, nothing special, are you more likely to get awarded the PhD at a 'not very good' university than at a top class university like Cambridge?<issue_comment>username_1: The quality of the university ... |
2012/05/27 | 2,336 | 10,240 | <issue_start>username_0: If a student feels that the grade he received is lower than he expected, because he has been working very hard, and truly trying to understand things, but sometimes at the cost of sacrificing details. But the instructor might think differently, as the student sometimes made careless mistakes in... |
2012/05/27 | 1,042 | 4,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student of computer science from India and specialize in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics. I have completed M.Tech (for those who do not know, it covers 18 years of education. It is actually PG in engineering, sort of an Indian equivalent of MS, consists of a one year course work + one... |
2012/05/27 | 1,329 | 5,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I've already completed my first grueling year of the PhD program, and graduation is still a yet to be seen light at the end of the tunnel. I'm very sure that academia is for me, and I really want to obtain a tenure-track position in my field (computational science). I know that universities oft... |
2012/05/27 | 1,125 | 4,846 | <issue_start>username_0: This question was raised by <NAME> [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/1725/64).
When a textbook author approaches a topic in a novel way or presents a particularly interesting example, I believe that a teacher who creates lecture notes using this novel approach or interesting example ... |
2012/05/27 | 1,351 | 5,808 | <issue_start>username_0: In recent months, I have found myself getting involved in varying degrees with the papers being written with members of my group. Some of the papers—by the more senior and experienced members of the group (primarily the postdoc) have needed little real effort on my part, except suggestions for ... |
2012/05/27 | 883 | 3,336 | <issue_start>username_0: After all, to do research with a professor, a student has to have good social skills. So why not have classes that teach social etiquette and social skills? It seems that many courses in college are "book courses." Yet, when students graduate, what really matters is how they present themselves ... |
2012/05/28 | 1,015 | 4,317 | <issue_start>username_0: So [bobthejoe said this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/757/77):
>
> The PhD students I remember the most are the ones who came up to me
> and made meaningful comments or suggestions regarding my work. They
> get extra bonus points if in the middle of the night the next week
> they o... |
2012/05/28 | 1,427 | 6,022 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a lot of very smart people in academia. They are at the front of human knowledge and push it further. Obviously, the research that comes out of academia is very new. My question is who applies this research? In other words, why don't these smart professors start a company and sell the... |
2012/05/28 | 417 | 1,812 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up to [How good are entrepreneurial opportunities for faculty members?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/792/entrepreneurial-opportunities-for-faculty-members).
Say, a few researchers, professors and their students, at a university would like to start a company to e... |
2012/05/28 | 1,011 | 4,334 | <issue_start>username_0: A stack of psychology exam essays has just landed on my desk for marking. It was a 3 hour exam with 3 essay questions. This is a final year essay so I do not have to provide written feedback. How long should I be spending marking an essay?<issue_comment>username_1: The only hard and fast advice... |
2012/05/28 | 824 | 3,728 | <issue_start>username_0: This is what I don't understand. Journals provide you with LaTeX class files and instructions and they also advise not to spend time typesetting the paper into the exact format of the journal. What does this mean? I don't know if this applies to all journals or to most of them.<issue_comment>us... |
2012/05/29 | 2,003 | 8,337 | <issue_start>username_0: Are faculty salaries negotiable in general? Wherever they are negotiable, how could applicants gain insights about the statistics of offers or the extent of safe negotiation?<issue_comment>username_1: *This entire answer is US-centric, since I have no clue how other countries work. This is not ... |
2012/05/29 | 934 | 3,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm at the stage in writing my dissertation where most of the substantive aspects are finished and the only tasks left are more or less administrative. However, one thing that I've been avoiding is writing the "Acknowledgements" section. Obviously I will thank my supervisor, committee members, ... |
2012/05/29 | 1,622 | 6,687 | <issue_start>username_0: In a [previous question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/980/how-much-do-soft-skills-matter-for-admission-decision) we stated that soft skills are pretty important for admission decisions in universities, so I suppose that you'll agree with me if I said that they are very important... |
2012/05/29 | 477 | 1,998 | <issue_start>username_0: After a paper is published, say in CS, who reads the paper? How are the ideas presented there applied to business and industry? How is industry collaboration done?
I'm asking this question per this [comment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1763/how-do-academics-make-money-from-app... |
2012/05/29 | 1,649 | 7,073 | <issue_start>username_0: Why don't more professors attempt to use the knowledge gained during the course of their research work by starting a company and commercializing their findings?
I'm asking this question per this [comment](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1763/how-do-academics-make-money-from-applyi... |
2012/05/30 | 482 | 1,944 | <issue_start>username_0: When interviewing for a new position, is it common practice to count the days spent on interviews as vacation days?
It wouldn't seem unreasonable to count these as vacation days, except that I could also see them as being work days. If I were only visiting to give a lecture and speak with facu... |
2012/05/30 | 560 | 2,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a U.S. sophomore (junior in the fall) studying Computer Science looking to transfer. I have three questions:
1. What schools in Europe should I look into for Computer Science? To clarify what I'm looking for out of this question, I'm not asking for schools tailored to what I'm seeking (ie,... |
2012/05/31 | 461 | 1,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and have a *D* in one of my exams due to some family issues. I also have a *B* in 3 subjects and *A* in one. I am worried about my future. will the *D* have an impact on my job prospects even if I maintain my GPA above 3.3?<issue_comment>username_1: Its not the grade that you... |
2012/06/01 | 473 | 1,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard of people who have gone on to pursue an MBA after their doctorates. What are the advantages/downsides of this?
Wouldn't the companies recruiting them after MBA value their doctorate experience less compared to the experience gained at an MNC? Is there a risk of them being valued ... |
2012/06/01 | 761 | 3,147 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible for faculty members to enrol themselves for a degree while being employed? I have seen professors attending classes occasionally, but how about earning a full degree?
I guess this may not be an issue within a university, but what if the professor wants to earn the degree with an... |
2012/06/01 | 1,155 | 4,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I would love to know the circumstances under which people opt for a second doctorate degree.
* Could a professor working in a university write up a thesis and submit it to his department to earn a second doctorate?
* Do only those who want to remain in the university forever as students go for... |
2012/06/01 | 521 | 2,192 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I was having a chat with a few senior PhD students (almost done with their thesis) and they pointed out that the professors would, at times, solicit their opinion regarding the admission of a particular student. This was especially true when the prospective student belongs to the same... |
2012/06/01 | 481 | 1,998 | <issue_start>username_0: My university is in Oklahoma and most companies are in east coast and west coast in the US. I am a bit worried if a PhD will be worthy from an average university with poor location. Should I apply to a college where there is a bunch of industries around?<issue_comment>username_1: Not a particul... |
2012/06/04 | 1,808 | 7,683 | <issue_start>username_0: To be specific, I just graduated with a Bachelor's degree, and my final project supervisor has asked me to co-author a paper with him about the subject of the project I did with his supervision.
I'd love to join the research community, and I guess this would a be good starting point, but there... |
2012/06/05 | 2,282 | 8,940 | <issue_start>username_0: And how much time does it usually take? I'd like to create a poster without having to put too much time into formatting.<issue_comment>username_1: Powerpoint. There are *hundreds* of PowerPoint poster templates available online, many of them are good, and it is one of the standard formats peopl... |
2012/06/05 | 883 | 3,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I wish to categorise my large collection of electronic documents. I need a foolproof set of categories to put each document in. I want to use a classification system similar to how university schools are organized:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_disciplines>
Some of my documen... |
2012/06/05 | 1,256 | 5,277 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a bad thing in academia if a student works from home? [Missing department talks and seminars](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/39/will-people-judge-me-negatively-for-skipping-department-seminars) is obviously bad, but in case a student is pursuing a problem alone and he feels ... |
2012/06/05 | 634 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: As a PhD student pursuing an academic career (but optionally a career in industry), what should I do do to get the most of a 10-week internship at a research lab?
Things I've thought of: talking with people (networking); attending talk/seminar (new ideas); giving a talk (get people to know you... |
2012/06/05 | 662 | 2,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing writing my master's thesis (~100 pages) and I also just submitted a paper (8 pages) to a conference. Since both are on the same subject and I am an author on both, is it ok if I reuse one page from the paper and put it in my thesis without many changes? The paper will not be publ... |
2012/06/06 | 566 | 2,416 | <issue_start>username_0: Given the [importance of web presence](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/616/is-web-presence-important-for-researchers) how does one manage the web presence of a research group? The simplest approach seems to be to use links to the personal webpages of the group members to supply con... |
2012/06/06 | 1,723 | 5,230 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I want to cite a Russian text in my own paper which is written in English. Should I:
* reference it as is, in the original Cyrillic alphabet, although the readers won't be able even to pronounce it?
* transliterate the authors' names, while keeping the rest as is?
* transliterate the... |
2012/06/06 | 858 | 3,389 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a few questions regarding admission into a PhD program in Applied Linguistics or Linguistics at US universities. I could not find any other valuable online sources regarding Linguistics for the answers I seek. Let me start with my qualification. I am an international student with a Maste... |
2012/06/06 | 358 | 1,529 | <issue_start>username_0: After receiving a rejection (not revise and resubmit) decision from the editor/associate editor of a journal, should we write an email to thank him/her for the time, or just do nothing? I imagine one might do that out of courtesy, but then I don't really have much to say otherwise.<issue_commen... |
2012/06/07 | 668 | 2,293 | <issue_start>username_0: The example is when you might be reading a certain paper, and the authors refer to another paper. You can't get that other paper as it's unpublished, or it's in a language that you can't read, or maybe something else.
My guess is:
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> Featherstone et al 1900 (in Thomas and Cullen 2002).
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2012/06/07 | 632 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an STS student, so bear with me; I'm happy to provide clarification but I want to leave the specific application unspecified:
**What sources would you consult if you were trying to generate a huge "list of all academic topics"?**
I'm thinking it would include all the 'ologies', the 'isms'... |
2012/06/07 | 1,220 | 4,420 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about using a Ph.D. title/grade from an EU University in Germany.
Germany recognizes (properly obtained) Ph.D.s from other EU countries.
People with an EU Ph.D. are allowed to use the abbreviation "Dr." in front of their names without mentioning the country of origin (which is AF... |
2012/06/07 | 477 | 2,062 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
When preparing a final version of a figure, it appears that some changes could be more easily made in a graphics software (gimp, inkscape, scribus, adobe) as opposed to R. Such changes might be done more efficiently, and more to the publishers standards, by the publisher. Appare... |
2012/06/07 | 780 | 2,385 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, a presentation whose PDF is listed at <http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/exoclimes/2012/pdf/talks/Day02_Ferreira.pdf>?
And what if the presentation doesn't have a publicly available URL? How would the citation style differ from that of a poster?<issue_comment>username_1: To supplement Nat... |
2012/06/08 | 1,272 | 5,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student right now, and I'm looking towards doing a post-doc in the future. There is a research laboratory where I want to do my post doc, primarily because there are scientists engaged in very similar topics to my dissertation work. I've never met any of them personally, and I know t... |
2012/06/08 | 753 | 3,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to get some more experience with writing grant proposals, and I know that professors are often invited to review them. How can I get involved in it while still being just a graduate student?<issue_comment>username_1: Reviewing grant proposals as a student is tricky, at least in some fiel... |
2012/06/09 | 1,271 | 5,433 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math student and never take notes in class. I feel like I am offending the professors by not taking notes. In general, do professors like students to be "active" during class? I have never learned much by taking notes.
I see other graduate students furiously taking notes...and then I a... |
2012/06/10 | 1,108 | 4,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm developing a paper right now based upon some of my preliminary results, and I'm attending several conferences to present and get some feedback on my results from other experts in my field. A thought occurred to me that because my work is yet to be published, I there is a potential for other... |
2012/06/10 | 1,653 | 7,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a mathematical model to help explain some experimental results and generate new hypotheses. Unfortunately, I have neither the resources nor interest to gather experimental data, but in this particular sub-field publishing a model without showing its usefulness on some experiment... |
2012/06/04 | 927 | 3,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to take the French language exam as part of the requirements for the PhD program at my university. The exam will consist of having to translate (with the help of a dictionary) a subset of a mathematics paper written in French. As an Indian international student in the US, I speak a n... |
2012/06/11 | 1,099 | 4,454 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: I have been in the Phd Program since fall 2010, I have made great academic progress (two papers published in journals). From the 4th semester (spring, 2012), I have started working in a company and still a part time student in school. Till now, I am still keeping doing research and ... |
2012/06/11 | 671 | 2,818 | <issue_start>username_0: I am three years into a PhD in Germany in an interdisciplinary social sciences field (Global Integration/Global Studies), but I am quite disillusioned with the faculty and the quality of guidance here. Moreover, the academic job prospects are not very good after the PhD, and any other job, give... |
2012/06/12 | 787 | 3,430 | <issue_start>username_0: I thought of an interesting idea for a thesis for my Masters program and I think I would eventually be able to sell a product that is built from the algorithms/code that I develop for this thesis. I realize my thesis is my work and I have the copyright permissions, but I am wondering what right... |