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61,140 | I'm an undergraduate and currently applying to summer research programs that ask for letters of recommendation. Last summer, I did research at a university with a professor who I'm planning on asking for a letter. He mentioned how he would like more people who are studying computer science to apply to his summer progra... | [
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"text": "Just straight up ask for the letter. There is no need to \"pay back\" with some favor. Writing letters of ... | 2016/01/05 | [
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61,146 | I will be a teaching assistant for a couple of "tutorials" this semester. Basically, I just have a list of problems that we have to go over in the tutorial. Last semester, the Calculus for Engineering students were happy to participate, but the Calculus for Finance students were not. The only factor I can think of is t... | [
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"text": "I often walk over to a randomly picked student and ask him/her a question. I do that randomly and unpredicta... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,159 | I received my undergraduate transcript with the fall semester grades a week back; I was wondering whether I should use it over an old transcript for my application to grad school in the US (top 10 in physics).
Jaaqons for sending old transcript (latest: spring grades from junior year):
* Spring semester showed good g... | [
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"text": "Generally the grad school you are applying will have guidelines on the specific transcripts to be sent. This will ... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,163 | I am proofreading a text where two authors are listed (one of which is the writer, and the other, apparently, only a "supervisor") and in reporting the author(s) use first person singular (instead of first person plural): I believe, I was surprised etc. I find this very illogical and was wondering whether there was a r... | [
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"text": "Number in scientific writing is fairly straightforward:\n\n* Multiple authors should be plural.\n* Complementaril... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,167 | I am a Ph.D. student in Germany. For the past three years I have been paid by a scholarship grant. (The source of this grant and the subject I’m in is not of relevance. Consider it natural sciences.) This grant is now terminating after three years however I still have to write and hand in my thesis. The relevant univer... | [
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"text": "This is very normal to happen, you have three choices, which I would recommend the last two: \n\n1. **Extend and Hope ... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,174 | Here in Croatia, when students are finishing their 3rd year of undergraduate courses, they usually write a paper called "Završni rad" (eng. Final Work/Project). I'm trying to communicate some things with foreign colleagues and I'm wondering what that would be called in English | [
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"text": "There is no one phrase, since different schools call such projects different things, so I would recommend just tr... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,176 | I graduated from a top Russian university (computer science) with moderately high grades in 2013 and after 3 years of industry experience decided to pursue a PHD abroad (ideally, in Germany). I know exactly what topic I want to investigate, found a professor who had recently done research in this field and am now compo... | [
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"text": "It is possible to be both brief and comprehensive.\n\nBe brief in the main e-mail: *completed X MOOCs from established... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,188 | I'm considering applying into an (individual) PHD program, after graduating from a top Russian university (computer science) with moderately high grades in 2013 and 3 years of professional experience.
However, I didn't notice whether mentioning recommendation isan necessary case for applying within the official and se... | [
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"text": "I have no experience applying to German institutions, but I have applied to programs in the US, Norway, Netherlands.... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,194 | I'm a relatively new PhD student, and I'm faced with a new (for me) situation. Before, I always had grades and the likes to tell me how good or bad I was doing: if I was at or near the top/bottom of my class, if I passed my exams or not... were all more-or-less objective indicators to tell me how I was doing.
But now ... | [
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"text": "In universities and in general in life, an **external sincere evaluation** is the strongest tool you can have ... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,199 | I would like to build my academic homepage and I am not sure how to organize it. I did research in several very different and unrelated **topics**, and in every topic I have different **types** of materials (e.g. introductory texts for students, published papers, presentations, working papers and open questions).
One ... | [
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"text": "What is your *principal* audience? Presumably you'd contact prospective employers directly, with a polished CV. M... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,207 | Some tests have minimums in their possible score range. Cisco's 300-1000 point range, and the SAT's 200-800 point per section range come to mind.
What purpose does this serve? I assume there is some statistical logic behind it. Maybe it would make more sense to me if I understood how they go about calculating the scor... | [
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"text": "According to the [Encyclopedia of Research Design](https://books.google.com/books?id=HVmsxuaQl2oC) (page [629](https... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,213 | I know there have been similar questions asked, but the most recent question was focused on the transcript and the less recent question was focused on courses not relevant to the major.
My general question:
When is it a valuable addition to a Statement of Purpose to explain an isolated case of poor performance in imp... | [
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"text": "> \n> My general question: When is it a valuable addition to a Statement of Purpose to explain an isolated case of... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,215 | An instruction email from one of the graduate schools I applied states the following:
"for the potential mentors you list on the application, after the January deadline passes, it’s a good idea to email them directly with a nudge to look at your application"
Is this necessary and is this a common practice? | [
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"text": "It is not \"necessary\", but, if you are polite and considerate in your emails, at worst it won't hurt anything. G... | 2016/01/06 | [
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61,221 | At my institution there's an on-site cancer research center. I applied to a lab through the center's careers page for the position Research Associate 1. Basically they took my resume, cover letter, personal info and there's a message in an automated system saying I'm currently being considered. I do meet the requiremen... | [
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"text": "You might try to find out from other people in-the-know whether the PI already has someone in mind, and is ... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,228 | I am currently an undergraduate major in both physics and chemistry. It is possible for me to acquire a BS in both areas, departmental honors in both, and a delegation from the honors college in four years, but is this a wise use of my time?
An honors designation at my university requires 5 classes all 3 credit hours ... | [
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61,231 | I am a Ph.D. student and met this senior scientist in a local conference, let's call him Dr. XX. (He is working in a research institute like Bell Lab, not exactly in academia.) We took some interest in each other's work and my supervisor allowed me to work with him. We (me, Dr. XX and my supervisor) just got our paper ... | [
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"text": "First, congrats on being in a good position-- two directions laid out for you. Also it looks like you ha... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,235 | I'm in a very unfortunate situation. I have B.S. from Computer Science and I change my field to Applied Mozhematics for M.S. (because of recommendations of my colleagues from research).
In CS I was pretty good, I finished with Diap's award for Bachelor thesis (that's why I was offered a part-time position in research)... | [
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"text": "To me it never hurts to discuss possible options. Complex mathematics can be a difficult hurdle to cross and it see... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,261 | I've been invited to visit a research center for a postdoc position, including giving a brief talk (25min) about my thesis.
My doubt is, should I refocus my talk to be closer to the research they are doing? If yes, how to do it, what to consider?
I think they just expect a good talk, since I will have later this day ... | [
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"text": "No. Having given these talks (and attended a great many of them) in the past, I can say from experience that most l... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,272 | I wonder why some conferences with double blind review ask for author names when submitting the paper for review. Why not asking for author information once the paper has been accepted? | [
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"text": "Likely so they can track the papers internally by author. It prevents, for example, a submission being sent out to a re... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,277 | I see most people use a black and white academic CV. Will it be any problem
if I use a color CV like this [template](https://www.overleaf.com/4036854vqqrbp), which is mostly monochrome but uses blue in some places.
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61,282 | So, I am yet to make up my mind on which is a superior mode of teaching in flipped classroom videos:
1. Rhun academy type model where you see slides or a digital drawing board and only listen to the instructor.
2. Or a video in which you see the instructor communicating with you. Maybe in one third of the video and th... | [
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"text": "I cannot cite studies, but extensive anecdotal observation (maybe 5,000 undergrad students, 500 grad students) su... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,283 | Suppose we have some text in a scientific journal article A. It is a verbatim copy of some text published in a related article B which is referenced by A, and this phrase is used to explain the same topic in both articles. However, the phrase itself is short, not a complete sentence and not very relevant (it could have... | [
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"text": "There is not a fixed set of rules for what is considered plagiarism (e.g., \"5 or more consecutive, not quoted words\")... | 2016/01/07 | [
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61,293 | Similar to this question [What happens to equipment purchased using a startup package after an academic leaves the university?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18581/what-happens-to-equipment-purchased-using-a-startup-package-after-an-academic-le) , I was wondering what happens if the items are not part of... | [
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"text": "The answer will vary widely, but for *most* industry-funded projects in the U.S., the institution will be the of... | 2016/01/08 | [
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61,296 | I've heard it suggested several times on this site that advisors (especially in experimental fields where the PI may benefit from a cheap, highly skilled workforce) have an incentive to prevent their PhD students from graduating in a timely manner, or at least that they have no incentive to actively promote graduation ... | [
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"text": "The incentives vary strongly by location, although I think the usual driver is monetary. For instance, in Germany, it i... | 2016/01/08 | [
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61,317 | I had an idea for a project and discussed it with my professor.
The professor said that it was a new idea and we could try it. We agreed that we would first research more about the feasibility of the idea. The professor would be the project head/guide for it with me and my friends as part of the team.
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"text": "EDIT: the original title of this post was \"is this plagiarism?? what should i do now??\"\n\nTo answer the ... | 2016/01/08 | [
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61,325 | I am a first year STEM PhD student in a US university, but I come from a different country. I took a couple of weeks off in this winter break to travel within the US, as it was too expensive to visit my home country.
Now, I have two options -
**1**. To visit my home country in the next winter (2016-17) for around a m... | [
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"text": "Do you have an adviser? Have you talked to them about this? Most should be fine with you taking some time off to visit y... | 2016/01/08 | [
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61,328 | Some Economics professors (e.g. [here](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/persico_nicola.aspx#vita) and [here](http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/personnel/vitae/1054_cv.pdf)) obtained a PhD in Economics in Europe and then obtained a PhD in economics in the U.S. in just one year. I would like to do the... | [
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"text": "Note that both professors have their European degree from Bocconi. Double degrees appear to be a Bocconi (and som... | 2016/01/08 | [
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61,336 | I'm from Palestine (or West Bank). Now I'm applying to Boston University (the deadline unfortunately is just ***a few hours from now***), and my country is not listed in their online application.
What can I do? There is not even an "others" option listed. Could I safely choose the nearest country to mine (Jervon), whe... | [
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"text": "The United States [does not recognize the statehood of Palestine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognitio... | 2016/01/08 | [
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61,340 | I'm majoring in philosophy at my undergraduate university but I've also taken a fair number of math classes. I've generally found that taking math classes is very time consuming and dramatically limits the amount of time I can spend working on philosophy classes. On the other hand, I feel like I learn a lot in the math... | [
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"text": "I get the feeling that it always helps to have a second major, and math is seen as a difficult subject (most often)... | 2016/01/09 | [
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61,347 | Although it is optional, many publishers recommend creating a graphical abstract. According to some, this can provide greater exposure of your article:
>
> its use is encouraged as it draws more attention to the online article
>
>
>
Why?
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Example of an abstract including graphical abstract, [from a recent is... | [
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"text": "I think it may be a substantial advantage. While I've never had the chance to create one, I really like them myself... | 2016/01/09 | [
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61,361 | I have a couple of papers that I have submitted to some journals but no feedback is received yet. meanwhile i'm writing my phd thesis and the defense is in few months, surely before getting any feedback from the journals. I'm wondering if it is okay to mention those submitted journal papers in my thesis. | [
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"text": "Yes. It is both OK and common to mention them as *Articles Submitted*, or as *Manuscripts Under Review*, or in c... | 2016/01/09 | [
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61,367 | Some journals upload their accepted papers for public viewing shortly after the papers were accepted, examples of this include [J. Math. Phys](http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jmp) and [Cell Systems](http://www.cell.com/cell-systems/). What's the reason for doing this if the journal needs revenue? | [
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61,370 | My PhD supervisor always told me that we write papers "for the ages". The publication system being what it is, we cannot go back and update any links, so we should not cite or reference a source that may be gone in five years.
With that in mind, I'm looking for a place to *host* a small open-source web-application, co... | [
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61,371 | I have completed my master‘s degree work one year ago under supervisor A, and now I am doing PhD under supervisor B.
I have presented a part of my master’s degree work and included supervisor B’s name in the abstract since he paid the conference fees.
I have not requested for a consent from supervisor A about that and ... | [
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61,383 | I read on <https://www.aei.org/publication/leisure-college-usa/> :
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aekCA.png)
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> Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hour... | [
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61,389 | I graduated with my PhD in math two years ago, and I am no longer affiliated with a university. However I am still actively researching. Often it's possible to get papers on arxiv or directly from the author's website, but sometimes it isn't (particularly for older papers). Public libraries, at least around here, don't... | [
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61,417 | As a PhD student, I face the requirement to publish at least one of my papers at one conference from a defined list of conference. In late November, I submitted a "draft version" of my work to my first and second supervisor.
In mid-December, I received feedback from the second supervisor. The feedback I received affe... | [
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61,424 | Short background: I'm a first year undergrad student and one of our study untis aims to educate us on academic reading and writing, including citation styles. Our Faculty requested we use the IEEE standard.
We have to gather the bibliographic data for some articles and books given to us. Two of these are articles (one... | [
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61,425 | I am an MSc student and in my class are 10 people.
The module has been taught exceptionally poorly and as a result none of us can see ourselves passing the module. The exam is in two days time.
By failing the exam we will have to retake it in the summer because we will not met the threshold to pass the module.
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61,429 | A recent question in [Information and Security Stack Exchange](https://security.stackexchange.com/),
>
> [How to know whether a textfile has been edited or tampered with](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/110141/how-to-know-whether-a-textfile-has-been-edited-or-tampered-with)
>
>
>
raises a very good ... | [
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61,441 | I'm applying to Oxford at the moment for graduate study. Under the section asking what undergraduate degree I'll be receiving, it gives me the choice of "Bachelor of Arts (non-UK)" and "Bachelor of Arts Honours (non-UK)." What is the difference between these two? I might receive departmental honors when I graduate, but... | [
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61,466 | I ranked first in my university in my undergrads, which had many affiliated colleges. How can I specify that in an essay in a compelling yet precise manner? | [
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61,469 | I have a B.Sc. in CS, but I want to further in the GIS (geographical information system) line. I am thinking I'd have to do some sort of post-graduate diploma in GIS, before I can go for a M.Sc., which is necessary to hit my mark, seemingly...
I need your guidance about this case.
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61,474 | Suppose in mathematics, someone finds a completely new elementary proof of a famous theorem and wants his work ''peer reviewed'' on a site like MathOverflow or MathStackExchange before submitting to a formal journal. How safe would this be ? | [
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61,476 | Two student just kissed each other, in public, in front of the other students and me (as the lecturer), in class!
Should I report the case to the administration?!
What am I supposed to do?
I'm a tenured female lecturer, at an american university. | [
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61,484 | I am writing some thank you's for interviews I had recently. How big of a deal is it if I write UCLA instead of University of California at Los Angeles, for example? I have always spelled things out in cover letters and CVs and stuff, but especially at this point, it just seems like I should just be able to write UCLA.... | [
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61,488 | The group of my professor and another professor from a distant Asian country have signed a cooperation agreement.
As part of the cooperation, me as a rookie graduate student have to visit the other professor. Unfortunately, the proposed days of the visit interfere with a few days of a personal holiday. On some other ... | [
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61,494 | I would like to cite a chapter from a book which is listed in the catalogue as *Attosecond and XUV Spectroscopy: Ultrafast Dynamics and Spectroscopy* (Wiley, 2014, edited by Phomos Dbmaltq and Marc Vrakking), found [here at the Wiley site](http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-3527411240.html) and [here on ... | [
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61,501 | One of my papers was accepted to a conference. There is this one thing that everyone asks about, including more than one of the reviewers, and other people I've talked to about my work. The answer to the question is sort of disappointing, and substantially deflates the balloon of my work. What is the best way to approa... | [
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61,502 | A friend of mine is finishing up a masters program and has applied to PhD programs around the nation last fall, as well as within the existing college. She had received several glowing letters of recommendation, including one from a professor of a current class (this last fall semester).
This professor has now accused... | [
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61,505 | I am currently reading a paper which devotes a section to reciting key valuation basics in finance, such as the time value of money and DCF analysis.
The paper goes so far as to explain the methodologies and historical significance of the valuation techniques. What is the point of a paper reviewing well known and unde... | [
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61,510 | I am working on my application to UC Dipis. It requires a Personal History Statement separate from the Statement of Purpose. I've been through this process with UC Berkeley, and the prompts are almost exactly the same. Dipis, however, also has a diversity fellowship that I'd like to apply to that requires a short state... | [
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61,523 | Two weeks after sending my manuscript to a journal, it was rejected in the pre-review stage and hence, there were no comments from reviewers about problems with the paper.
* Can poor scientific writing be the reason for this fast rejection?
* What do editors do in the pre-review stage?
* How can I diagnose problems wi... | [
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61,534 | During one of my undergraduate semesters I was pretty depressed (for various personal reasons) and was struggling with completing my coursework. One class in particular didn't have a final exam, there was a just a final essay to turn in worth 25% of the grade. I was really out of it, and in the end I couldn't meet the ... | [
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61,545 | I am going to apply for graduate admission in the US universities. Most of the universities require official transcript which must be sent from my institute with official envelope and seal.
**I went to my university to send the offical transcript to the US universities. The controller of the examiner asked me that whi... | [
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61,547 | I was taught that conference papers in computer science count as publications. Therefore, a journal paper cannot be presented in a conference because of plagiarism reasons, and vice versa.
I confirmed this information:
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61,557 | So I applied to a linguistics PhD program my senior year of undergraduate studies in Chinese and Spanish. I wasn't accepted, and the university provided the explanation that essentially I didn't have enough background/research experience in the field. I am reapplying to this graduate program now five years later, and I... | [
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61,559 | What I mean is to change mistakes/typos other than the proposed changes your reviewers pointed out to you.
As this article is based on a previous thesis (which had a very similar focus, only it was oriented towards a different cultural context) I've noticed a few paragraphs that could use a clean up (for example it wo... | [
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61,576 | I'm applying to UIUC and have asked 3 of my professors to write me recommendation letters. One professor, who I discussed my application with before extensively, wrote back to me after I was done with everything that he doesn't write a LOR to students who do not waive their right to view the letter at a later date, bec... | [
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61,584 | This is a review report of an article on the EVISE revision status website:
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61,593 | I teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in mechanical engineering at a research oriented university in the United States. I am a teaching track professor and my sole responsibility, on which I am judged for pay raises or promotions, is teaching efficacy.
The courses I teach have a strong mathematical componen... | [
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61,596 | This is a second attempt to ask about peer evaluation, after a [pretty unsuccessful one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60774/how-should-we-evaluate-our-peers) which was probably much too broad. Let me start again, with a more precise subquestion.
The point is commonly made that one should not judge one'... | [
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61,600 | Last term I taught a large undergraduate course. I had assignments (online) due a week after we finish a chapter. There were two minor problems with this. The first was that I had to deal with students who enrolled one, two or even three weeks into the term and gave them extensions of the first several assignments, whi... | [
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61,604 | I have completed all the requirements for an M.S. degree and have filed the appropriate paperwork. All I have left to do is walk at the end of this semester. I want to put this on my CV, but it seems appropriate to differentiate it from my Ph.D., which is (only) "In progress", and another M.S. which I completed a few y... | [
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61,614 | This [recent question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/61584/what-this-elsevier-evise-report-means) on the Elsevier online submission system prompted this question to me.
It seems like there are lots of outstanding examples of bad [usability](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability) and overall negative [... | [
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61,628 | I'm a high schooler who recently found a derivation of a trigonometric function over complex numbers. I typed it up as a LaTeX paper and know it's probably not publishable to an actual journal. I'm deciding if I should publish it to arXiv and when I tried registering as a user it asked for my affiliation. Is an affilia... | [
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61,635 | I have a hoodie with Dalhousie University written on it (where I used to work), but I now work at Nankai University.
*Question*: Is it significantly inappropriate to wear clothes bearing the name of University X, when working as an official employee at University Y?
I'm thinking I'm overthinking this, and it's a case... | [
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61,648 | I was a member of a study team that produced a couple of research papers.
The authors of the paper are, for example:
>
> Dicguol Norqal, Ziger Cookz, Jehj Slotj and The ABC Study Investigators
>
>
>
In the acknowledgements, it reads:
>
> The ABC Study team consists of members from Harvard University (Jamos Gun... | [
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61,649 | I am a lecturer at a public university in Bangladesh. I am going to give recommendations for students from my class who are going to apply for graduate admission to some US universities. These letters will be submitted online.
My problem is related to the signature. Please check the my recommendation style: I have wri... | [
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"text": "I do not think you will require a sign on the top of your name. It is because, you will send the letter via email or o... | 2016/01/14 | [
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61,670 | I am an M.Sc. student in a university in a developing country, and I am frustrated with the volume of useless writing that we are supposed to do in my program. Every single course has a class project, in which we need to do a literature review a project and then at the end need to submit a 10-15 page report. We also ne... | [
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61,673 | Is there any integrity/plagiarism issue if I use ideas I developed/argued in my master's essays and dissertation in the PhD proposal? Can I do this? What can I do to prevent potential problems?
**Edit:** none of those essays or dissertation are published, if this helps clarifying. So even that they're not published, I... | [
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61,682 | Plagiarism is,
>
> the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and
> publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or
> expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original
> work.
>
>
>
as defined [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism),
and
>
> According to U.S. law, t... | [
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61,683 | I simply could not pay attention in a lecture if I brought in a laptop. I always take notes by hand, especially since that's supposed to be better for learning.
A professor of mine stated that laptops are **distracting to other students** and **moved them all** to the left part of the lecture hall.
I'm curious, wha... | [
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61,688 | I was a summer intern at a research group while I was in high school. They submitted a paper with me as an author and it was rejected in large part due to similarity to their previous paper which I am not an author on. I wasn't aware of this misconduct and am concerned this could follow me into my future career. Also, ... | [
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"text": "First of all, don't worry (yet). No one gets in trouble because a paper got *rejected*. If it had been *retracted... | 2016/01/14 | [
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61,712 | I have written a paper on applying a mathematical theory to a linguistic problem. I privately submitted it to several renowned professors (some of them very famous indeed) in the field of linguistics, semantics and so on. They made some suggestions and expressed some criticism on some details, but for the most part the... | [
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"text": "Interdisciplinary papers have this problem a lot. A - now - very influential paper in my field, I was told b... | 2016/01/15 | [
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61,722 | My Library is already partially organized (manually) with regular filesystem folders. But it is pretty messy right now and getting unwieldy.
Also several files should be renamed to something meaningful (right now paper titles-author-year is best for me).
I am wary of pulling the trigger, Mendeley may make things worse... | [
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61,734 | When I went for my very first PhD interview by a potential supervisor, I hadn't applied for other universities. I promised that supervisor that I would definitely work under his supervisor if I was given an opportunity. He told me that he had a bad experience of a student replacing him with another supervisor after 1 y... | [
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61,738 | As a PhD student there are limited funds available for travel to conferences. Should presenting at conferences with proceedings be prioritised over conferences without proceedings? Are conferences without proceedings considered less prestigious? I'm interested specifically in applied mechanics and materials science con... | [
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61,748 | I am just starting out my PhD which will take 5 years to complete and I am dealing with a person in my own research group who cannot stop putting me down every chance she gets.
In our research department in neuroscience engineering I guess she would be considered a very ambitious person. She has good grades and has so... | [
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"text": "I favor the Confusingly Positive/Neutral Response in these situations.\n\n* \"So-and-so did Awesome Thing and you --... | 2016/01/15 | [
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61,749 | I am a PhD student in mathematics going into graph theory. I hope to either do a post-doc or (hopefully!) get a tenure-track position at a research-oriented university after graduation. I don't have a super high Math SE reputation, but it has been steadily increasing from answering questions. (I have only asked a few, ... | [
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"text": "This isn't something that you'd normally put on a CV and if you did, I don't think it would help your chances... | 2016/01/15 | [
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61,757 | I was given an assignment for a graduate course a few days ago, and I had to do some background reading in order to understand what one question was asking. In the process of doing this reading, I discovered a paper that contained the exact question I was working on, but phrased as a statement. A proof of this statemen... | [
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61,775 | The journal that I have chosen for submitting my paper doesn't use double-blind review
(double blind review means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process).
Can I ask editors via email, or make a request for one? Is it difficult for th... | [
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61,787 | In my passport, my name is "SABBIR HASAN" because there was no option to write in smaller letters.
I registered on the GRE with my name as "Sabbir Hasan", and I am also writing it this way on the online graduate application form.
Will the difference create any problem? | [
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"text": "This should not cause any problems. People working on graduate admissions typically quite well understand that dif... | 2016/01/16 | [
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61,791 | I am an EE & CS graduate student and [IEEE](https://www.ieee.org/index.html) is a typical and well-known associations.
I am getting papers published in Transactions, Journals Magazines, etc... via RSS feed. For example, [IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=775... | [
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"text": "I am not sure about EE, but for Computer Science, most of the venues you would usually want to track are listed in ... | 2016/01/16 | [
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61,805 | The web page of my article in the AMS editorial system for some three months says "Article status: Reviewing" and in the next line "Your paper is being handled by an editor". I find this confusing as the "reviewing" status appears to suggest that the article is with the referee(s) rather than with the editor but this i... | [
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"text": "You should note that the word \"editor\" is used in many ways for quite different things. Most people understand it... | 2016/01/17 | [
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61,814 | I am finding the following moral problem, and possibly people with more experience could help me.
One of my Master students (who recently finished his master studies) is applying for PhD positions. Despite my good scientific opinion about him (and his master thesis research), my personal opinion is starting to change... | [
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"text": "The general answer is yes, a reference letter should always be positive. If one cannot write a positive letter f... | 2016/01/17 | [
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61,825 | If one aspired to a traditional, research-based academic career in a major university, would teaching for a few years at a community college (say, after the Master's) be damaging to one's CV? I'm worried that it would create a record of affiliation with a low-ranked university that would make people see you as "from" t... | [
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61,831 | I have been offered a postdoc position at Cambridge University. That's great, because two years ago I wanted to go back to academia and went to see my PhD supervisor (I finished my PhD in engineering in 2007) to ask if he might have or know of a postdoc position I'd be suitable for. The answer was no, so a few months l... | [
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61,845 | I have completed a 4 year bachelor of Mathematics at a decent university, and a comment was made by [Pete L. Clark](https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/938/pete-l-clark), on this website, [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/61827): "post-PhD academic job market is one step shy of airtight at the moment."
... | [
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61,847 | How do you go about dealing with an editor that pretends to be ALL the reviewers and reject a paper based on his/her 'made-up' reviews? Should I complain to the editor-in-chief or simply let it slide? The editor is a big name in my field. | [
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61,853 | We have several opening in our group working in the field of computer science and electrical engineering (more specifically digital system design). We put an advertisement in our webpage and also another in the university portal. But we don't have applicants yet. I was looking for some websites to advertise the positio... | [
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"text": "[Euraxess](http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/index) may be an option. Its openings are quite heterogeneous (sci... | 2016/01/18 | [
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61,861 | When something is peer reviewed, how much trust are the reviewers saying you should give it?
I'm not talking about whether peer review works, I'm asking what peer review *means* ideally.
For example, I know you should trust a peer reviewed article more than, say, a blog post. At the same time, if an article passes pe... | [
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"text": "* *Should one trust that citations are claiming what is in the articles they cite?*\n\nNo. [Too many people d... | 2016/01/18 | [
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61,865 | In a normal magazines, page numbers restart counting from 1 at every issue.
Most academic journals, however, count continuously, perhaps per year or per quarter, leading to articles covering pages 13199–13255 or similar folly.
Why is this so? When citing year and issue, there is no ambiguity when starting to count at... | [
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"text": "One of the reasons, if not the only one, is that each year journal issues are typically collected by libra... | 2016/01/18 | [
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61,871 | At one time I tried to be able to remember obscure journal abbreviations and the like, but recently I started favouring more bulky bibliography entries.
So I started wondering if it might be useful to include series and volume number of a book, e.g. Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM). Sometimes library shelves, book ... | [
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61,879 | As the title says, how common is it for mathematics departments (in the US) to notify postdoc applicants when they're shortlisted?
As I'm currently waiting for postdoc offers and haven't got any shortlist notification yet, I want to know if I should start to panic. | [
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61,880 | I heard that in astronomy most people do only one or two postdocs. If they haven't found a permanent position after this, they quit astronomy and find a job in a different field like physics, economics, or information technology. And the vast majority of people who get a PhD in astronomy will end up quitting astronomy ... | [
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"text": "I'm not in astronomy, but as far as I know, it's true across all of academia that your body of work is weighed against... | 2016/01/18 | [
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61,884 | Some days ago I read this question:
[Feynman describing a scientific error](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/8961/feynman-and-scientific-method)
and I found it quite interesting. Although it seems naïve it could be a typical mistake made by a beginner researcher as me.
My question is that if anyone knows... | [
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"text": "I think that a good place to start would be [What Is This Thing Called Science?](https://www.wikiwand.com/e... | 2016/01/18 | [
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61,892 | I have a very dumb :-) question:
Are emoticons (if rarely placed - one or two times) in a PhD thesis considered unorthodox?
I have an introduction where I give an apt example and appended some small footnote where I make fun of the author (that's me) and I was so laughing when writing this I almost liked to put a smi... | [
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61,919 | I once attended a scientific conference with a few hundred participants. There, the CEO of Frobcorp, Inc.1 gave a keynote speech on what their product is about and how they accomplish certain things.
There is one piece of information that was mentioned during the keynote which is quite important to me. I would like to... | [
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61,933 | In the future, I will be on the market for a temporary academic position (postdoc or visitor) in the US, in math. Because of my lifestyle and financial situation, I do not need a large salary. Ballpark, let's say I would be willing to work an academic job for about half the typical salary.
Is there any way I can use t... | [
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"text": "There is some possibility of this, but it would work only in certain restricted ways and in certain limited conte... | 2016/01/19 | [
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