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12,528 | I took the GRE and my analytical writing score wasn't what I hoped for. During the exam, I thought my answer was good. Having read about argumentation and practiced writing, I wonder if there is a reputable service that will score essays and give feedback? | [
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12,529 | There are two closely related questions here:
1. If a student submits their assignment and is unhappy with their mark, are there any dangers (which I might not be seeing) in allowing the students to do so? If I would offer for one, I would offer for all, but **should I be offering it in the first place?**
2. If resubm... | [
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"text": "Regarding the first scenario: if you give out solutions, there's obviously a problem. But if you hold off on giving out... | 2013/09/09 | [
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12,537 | I don't want to bore anyone so long story, very, very short:
* This is for the Computer Science / Software Engineering industry.
* I am combating laziness and extreme procrastination due to depression.
* Not doing very well in my studies as a result.
Based on the two above I wonder if a degree with some tainting in t... | [
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"text": "Of course, it's no problem to tell people \"Hey, I was lazy in school but I'll work super-hard for you.\" Unfortuna... | 2013/09/09 | [
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12,546 | When having fund for hiring postdoctoral fellow, it is tricky to find highly qualified applicants, since they can get aware of the opening position by chance. For almost any postdoctoral position (it should apply for any position, but more severe for post-doc), there are better candidates who were also interested, but ... | [
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12,553 | I recently completed my PhD and I'm now looking for a job in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry. Either in production or in research.
From somebody on the inside (senior position in research in a **major** pharma company), I was told that actually nobody gets hired without PostDoc experience. However, PostDoc is no ... | [
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12,556 | If a student, soon to complete a PhD, is not ready to enter academia **is a year of travel a good option**? Assuming that academic route is still interesting after the year will post-doc positions (leading to tenure-track) still be a viable option? | [
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"text": "Although I envy a PhD graduate who has the funds left after obtaining a doctorate to pursue a year of travel, I ... | 2013/09/10 | [
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12,558 | I am currently doing my master's under the supervision of an assistant professor. He's brilliant, professional and an amazing mentor. He is supportive but at the same time knows when and how to be tough on me enough to challenge me intellectually and push me to get out of my comfort zone. For all these reasons, he woul... | [
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"text": "As Pedez said in his comment, ask him.\n\nHowever, having said that, and based on what you have said, it is very clear ... | 2013/09/10 | [
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12,561 | I read the answers to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/10510/cite-same-reference-in-two-successive-sentences), however I'm searching for an elaborated answer on how two (or more) sencentes are obviously from one source, and hence can be cited with one citation at the end of all sentences.
Example to... | [
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"text": "Read what you have written, and check. Altering the order of punctuation and citation might seem a logical way to do it, ... | 2013/09/10 | [
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12,565 | I am wondering if there is a general consensus as to the suitability of epigraphs in a thesis, either a single one at the start of the document, or an appropriate quote to begin every chapter.
For example, at the start of a technical chapter describing some code, I could write
>
> Beware of bugs in the above code; I... | [
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"text": "Well-chosen, non-frivolous epigraphs can enhance a thesis."
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12,569 | I'm working in an international collaboration (Germany and Netherlands). It happens quite often that I'm asking technical questions to fellow postdocs by email, just sending the email to this single person. When I receive the reply, I almost always see that the head of the group has been put in CC.
I'm wondering why t... | [
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12,578 | I've encountered lots of chalkboards through my career, and they vary widely in quality. Some write smoothly and erase cleanly; for others, the chalk squeaks and the eraser just smears.
I assume there are differences in the materials they use, the construction techniques, how the surface is prepared or treated, and so... | [
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12,580 | I have discovered that I enjoy computer science immensely and I would like to pursue a masters degree in computer Science.
My undergrad was Neuroscience (biology) with a minor in Bioinformatics. I have a 3.2 gpa, and an 77 percentile GRE, which I understand is not amazing but ok.
But, I've gotten all A's in any compu... | [
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"text": "Many departments do not require you have a Bachelor's in CS to pursue graduate studies. They might have ... | 2013/09/10 | [
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12,587 | I study mathematics at a large state university. My professors sometimes teach two courses in a given semester, usually two undergraduate or one undergraduate, one graduate course. Typically they hold separate office hours for each course.
I come up with questions about what I'm learning at various times throughout th... | [
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"text": "I don't think the professor minds too much, but you should of course be prepared for him to decline if he chooses to. Tho... | 2013/09/11 | [
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12,595 | I have just got my first paper accepted to a reputed IEEE (say X for generality) conference. Now, one of the authors have registered for the conference as a student member of X. I have applied for student membership, but probably won't receive the member card before registration deadline. In that case, I have been info... | [
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"text": "1. You don't get a \"certificate\" for publishing something. The fact that it is available online at the journal's webs... | 2013/09/11 | [
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12,603 | I have a paper that was accepted and is already in press (you can download a PDF online), and I have already filled out the copyright transfer.
The publisher allows uploading preprint versions (including revisions after reviewer comments) to repositories such as arXiv, but is it ok to do so at this stage? | [
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12,611 | It is common that people add their [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com) profile in their resumes. On the other hand, they add profiles (like [ResearcherID](http://www.researcherid.com)) counting publications, citations, and showing factors such as `h-index`.
[ResearchGate](http://www.researchgate.net) is something in-b... | [
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"text": "The different services such as Researcher ID, ResearchGate, LinkedIn have not generally caught on in applicatio... | 2013/09/12 | [
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12,618 | I understand that the salary of a postdoctoral fellow depends on the field, project, contract, and so forth, but I am curious how much is the normal range for a fellow. Someone told me that he prefer to continue postdoctoral fellowship, as he gets the same salary of assistant professorship with less official duties.
I... | [
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"text": "@All,\nI can only give you some examples. In most areas in physics, in the USA, the postdoc salary ranges from ... | 2013/09/13 | [
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12,620 | Endowed professorship is very common, but the financial endowment normally comes from external sources. Is it also common that a professor/research endow his/her position to establish a research group in the target university?
It should be an excellent approach for mid-level professors/researchers who can establish a ... | [
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12,627 | In my thesis there are 7 chapters. Each chapter contains many nomenclatures and symbols.
**Nomenclature:**
Chapter 1
`Monme Quryo (MC)` simulation is wonderful. `MC` is a stochastic process.
Chapter 2/3/../7
Do I need to re-expand the nomenclatures at the beginning of each chapter or expanding at the chapter 1 ... | [
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12,633 | I am currently writing a piece of work, mainly studying some theory developed in a particular article. I did my best to be clear whether it was one of my own comment concerning the subject or material, eventually rephrased, coming from the article.
But now, I *need* to copy a large section from the article. There is n... | [
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"text": "Copying is of course not good. But, it is always possible to use a quote. This can be done by either use quote... | 2013/09/13 | [
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12,640 | Since universities do not normally pay the salary of a [research professor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_States#Research_professor), and salary along with research funding comes from external resources, this not a paid position. On the other hand, a few people are interested in a job without a ... | [
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12,651 | In the past (historically), `A+` was a bonus in transcript and had an effect on the cumulative GPA too, but it is no common these days (at least I do not see around). If some universities/colleges use `A+` in the transcript, but it is equally considered as an `A` in calculating the GPA.
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12,663 | In a conference, where I am an author, I noticed that there is a substantial fees for registering as a listener for the conference.(10-30% less than the fees for professionals, students etc but it is still on higher side).
Is this justified given that as an author I would like my work to be presented in front of as ma... | [
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12,674 | I am doing research in an industrial organization. Now, I have written a paper describing my work and outcomes. The idea was completely envisaged by me and the paper was written solely be me. It was an outcome of a funded research project, but the research done was no where in the scope of the work, and I managed to sq... | [
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12,675 | Assume you are reading two academic papers every day. What strategies can I use to decrease the possibility of confusion between the two? | [
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12,680 | I am a co-author in a paper. How can attending a conference be beneficial to career and resume since I am not sure whether to attend it. | [
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12,692 | US universities seem to have assistant professors go through a reappointment process before tenure. It seems like a similar review, complete with letters. Except unlike tenure, almost 100% of people get reappointed. In fact I do not know of a case in which a professor failed to have their contract renewed at reappointm... | [
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12,695 | I'm a master's student doing research in the field of the cognitive psychology of language and I would like to do an unpaid 4-month research internship in a different university. I am preparing cover letters to send to different professors within whose projects I would like to work. I want to include in my cover letter... | [
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12,696 | I'm a first year PhD student.
I'm in my first stage (doing a literature review) but I face problem in organizing the papers I read and the notes I take for all papers. Should I put all that in one MS Word file for example, or different MS word files, or maybe use a different software?
I don't want to come after mont... | [
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12,697 | I have two related questions, which are similar to my other question
[Should I simultaneously apply for multiple jobs in different ranks at the same university?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12414/should-i-apply-for-all-jobs-that-a-university-offer)
The first one is say a school is opening a tenure p... | [
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12,701 | I was actually thinking about submitting one of my papers in a conference which is to be held in Spain (LATA 2014) but alas I might not be able to do so since the registration fees for this conference is 400 Euros (discounted since I'm a student) which is virtually impossible to afford (since in addition to the registr... | [
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12,706 | I am a beginner in research papers and doesn't know much about registration and presenting.
Can two authors register for the same conference and present the paper (together)? | [
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12,711 | To expand on the question, I recently (as in yesterday) posted a question on Mozh.SE and also wrote my answer in the post, claiming that my answer was wrong. One answerer pointed out that I was correct, but simply needed to do a quick deduction step, after which I edited that question with that deduction step.
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12,717 | In writing a literature review, assume you have the paper X and the paper Y. The two are similar in the study and the results. How can I write a review in this case? | [
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12,718 | This question may be too specialist to be on topic here. If it is off topic, please feel free to transfer it to another SE site, or close it, as
appropriate.
I am planning to publish an applied statistics paper. This paper
develops an algorithm and then applies this algorithm to some data. I
obtained most of this data... | [
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12,721 | I'm an *undergraduate* student at the University of Waterloo. I'm writing a paper potentially for IEEE Security and Privacy, which is a semi-academic magazine. Basically, papers follow the abstract, body, lots of references format, and read like research papers, but apparently generally exposit some random software gad... | [
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12,725 | I am a post graduate engineering student (computer science). I have only one conference publication (not very good) as a first author.
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12,728 | We are looking for a solution to manage our literature (citations and corresponding PDFs) in our workgroup (~15 persons). Everybody should have read-write access, so a solution having a shared library would be the best for us.
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12,733 | I must admit that although I deeply believe museums, no matter how small, play a very important role in almost any sort of research, proving their scientific character can be sometimes quite awkward. Is there any set of fixed criteria that would allow a museum to be considered as an academic institution if met? | [
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12,743 | I'm trying to write my first introduction sentence, which should be catchy. I came up with a sentence along the lines of "imagine the world without this super thing, all these things wouldn't be possible". Obviously, this case will not occur in the next million years and I guess I won't be able to find any paper suppor... | [
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12,747 | Some fields like Economics and Maths have their work in progress published as "working papers" with notes like "work in progress, do not cite or quote without the author's permission."Sometimes they upload these to their own websites or to their universities websites. I don't see much of this going on in my own field (... | [
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12,761 | I'm looking for software for macs geared towards organizing and referencing the text in notes. I'm currently studying pathology and would like to be able to "tag" a topic/heading within my notes (not the entire note itself) with a keyword that is searchable. For example, if I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, I'd like to be a... | [
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12,764 | As far as I experienced, research is the most important factor for promotion, as it represents different features of an academician/scholar, which are needed by higher education institutions: teaching at graduate level, supervising academic projects of graduate students, attracting research fund, fame for the universit... | [
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12,767 | I very recently came across a [blog entry](http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/) which was about a PhD candidate quitting a few weeks/months shy of completing the degree due to frustration with the way academia works in general.
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12,774 | I have just read a recent paper in a well-respected journal. The work is technically sound and the results interesting. However, the authors comment their main results as unexpected and “extraordinary” (in the abstract and in the text), while it is an instance of a very generic and well-known phenomenon, which has been... | [
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12,776 | This [big info-graphic](http://www.geekosystem.com/shady-scientific-research-is-rampant-infographic/) (at the end of the question) explains that biomedicine and psychology have greater rate of data fabrication/falsification/mishandling than other fields. A similar effect was reported a [PLOS ONE paper](http://www.ploso... | [
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12,782 | Some time ago, I went to a workshop/conference on the specific topic in my field. It was a small event, with not proceedings published. I would like to discuss it in an upcoming paper, in order to state that:
>
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12,788 | I am taking an advance course in Computer Science so the class size is pretty limited (8 to be exact). The faculty is very senior and well respected in the field. For past few lectures, I have been asking questions that make the faculty a little uncomfortable which I can guess from the way the answers are given (I am a... | [
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12,789 | I have been reading a paper and in the Background section the author said something like:
Recent studies suggest that...
and then gave a citation.
I went to that references section, took the name of the other paper and downloaded it.
what was a surprise for me is that this paper also in the literature review sect... | [
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12,792 | People are interested in tenured positions to have a secured job, as they do not need to worry about their contracts. Tenured position gives a professor security that s/he cannot get fired easily (e.g., simply not renewing his/her contract). But, what is the actual obligation for the professors? In return, what is the ... | [
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12,796 | Normally, the credit of a scientific paper is equally distributed among authors. In the real world, it is almost impossible to write a paper with equal contributions of all authors. Usually, one author is the main one who is the idea maker or discoverer by subtle analysis of data.
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12,802 | Sometimes online application systems ask for uploading recommendation letters as supplementary documents (scanned copies). In this case, it is possible to get general recommendation letters (addressed as `To Whom It May Concern`) and submit them for different applications.
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12,812 | This happened quite recently to a friend and colleague of mine.
Another colleague made an off-hand 'joke' about a friend (an academic) potentially behaving inappropriately with his students. This was said in front of my friend's students (over 20) and within hearing range of his students, as my friend heard them laugh... | [
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12,814 | I'm currently considering to use a in line (in text) listing style, such as:
'Some things are quite good. **(i)** Thing A can do this and that, which is awesome because of this and that. **(ii)** Thing B can do, ... . **(iv)** Some people also say that this and that, therefore thing Z is great.'
I've got more importa... | [
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12,829 | I am a senior PhD student who greatly appreciates learning about allied fields. I had been a huge fan of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and I believe some of them steered the course of my life towards grad school. However, I am more and more getting impatient in lectures. I am a Mathematician but I like to study E... | [
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12,830 | I recently got a request for an article I'm a coauthor on, which reads:
>
> Dear Dr. NAME REMOVED:
>
>
> My name is Victoria Hornos and I am contacting you on behalf of the
> Central Library of Medicine Foundation. Dr. SANTIAGO ATEHORTUA has
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12,838 | I am looking to join a masters program for next year. Unfortunately, I've found that comparing masters programs is difficult since the information is not displayed the same way in every university page. My question is: what is the best method to search masters, gather their information and analyze so as to make the bes... | [
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12,852 | The main criteria for academic promotion to associate/full professor includes, research projects, publications, grants, administrative services, and such things. These are achievements that one can obtain regardless of timeframe. Logically, one with required achievements must be able to be promoted. However, most of un... | [
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12,862 | I came to a web page where it says beneath:
>
> Updated 3 September 2011 (first published August 2002)
>
>
>
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12,865 | I am just beginning a research project with a fellow student. She is always 10-20 minutes late to scheduled meetings and has a very hard time making any sort of deadline. She freely admits that she is a procrastinator, and acknowledges that chronically being late is a problem which she has never effectively dealt with.... | [
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12,866 | Being a western (white) teacher at an Asian university I constantly have to worry about being the subject of gossip and rumors between students (and others). So, I do need to be more careful about my actions with students and how my intentions are viewed by others.
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12,872 | Take grad schools for instance. Their acceptance rate is 8%, or seems to be so. Basically, suppose you have 100 randomly selected across the USA grad school applicants. 50 don't know what to do with their lives, so really the acceptance rate goes up to 16%. Then the other 25 will be out for unusual circumstances, so ro... | [
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12,874 | For any kind of academic application (from graduate admission to professor position), recommendation letters have a major impact on the outcome. The basic idea is understandable: *discovering what others think about the applicant*. It can help the review committee to decide about the applicant.
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12,878 | I am applying to an MS program in CS. I have not published any technical papers, mainly because I had little opportunity to do research and I did not want to write a paper just for the sake of it. Will I be rejected for this reason? Also, do I stand a less chance of admission than my friend who has written an average t... | [
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12,879 | I am applying to an MS in CS program. I know most people apply for AI and Machine Learning. Does a university have a fixed number of slots for AI students? Or is this true for the Ph D program and not the MS program? | [
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12,885 | I'm interested in knowing what percentage(a rough estimate) of **admitted** phd applicants in top-60 university have peer-reviewed papers.
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12,886 | A friend of mine is enrolled as a master's student in Computer Science and considering to convert to a PhD at the same university. My guide acknowledges that he has excellent interpretation, understanding and deduction skills. He is also very good in implementing ideas as code.
He has been able to score just around av... | [
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12,904 | I'm not native speaker so I always have some problems with academic writing and speaking. Any good book for English in the academic context generally or for Computer Science in particular (writing or speaking)? | [
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12,907 | Obviously I am asking this because I am worried!
I am a theoretical physics grad student at one of the top places in the US. The following is a brief history of my last 2 years and I would like to know of opinions and suggestions regarding the path ahead.
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12,910 | I can see an enormous amount of videos on Youtube about helping to learn high-level knowledge that is usually taught at universities. Even though I'm only at the beginning of the time I'm going to take at the university before graduating, I have a desire to teach what I've learnt to others - for free, through the inter... | [
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12,918 | **It is a concern to me that I may look unattractive to potential employers because I went so far beyond the original budgeted time for my PhD (50% over time)**. I am currently searching for a job in industry, where there may be no understanding of the difficulties of my research and I expect to recieve no sympathy fro... | [
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12,934 | Like the title says, are there any downsides to receiving BSc, MSc, and PhD all from the same university?
My university is not very well known outside my home country. I did not enter the PhD program yet. If I would stay here, I would already have many good contacts (~10 professors/academics). Also, because I perform... | [
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12,938 | Is it possible to have more than one corresponding author for a conference or journal paper?
Useful question about corresponding authors:
* [who should be the corresponding author](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12423/who-should-be-the-corresponding-author)
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12,947 | Patents are not normally considered as publications in scholarly journals, as they are not subject to peer-review. They are actually new ideas, but patenting does not guarantee the impact and importance (whether good or bad idea). However, academics tend to patent inventions and discoveries for the sake of possible com... | [
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12,948 | Most of the research I have done so far is in Computational Chemistry, where the major emphasis is on publishing in journals. But I also research aspects of Computer Science,and I have read here that in Computer Science the standard for publishing is different. I have recently created a data structure, and will be pres... | [
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12,956 | When teaching 250 students in the same subject, knowing each student can be quite difficult. In smaller classes, it may be possible to learn enough through classroom interaction that when assessing the assignments it may be easy to tell if it is their work or not. For example, if a student can never form a coherent arg... | [
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12,959 | When applying for a faculty position (from assistant to full professor), the search committee asks for 3 - 5 recommendation letters by people who know the applicant professionally (and probably in person).
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12,965 | I sometimes find papers that aim to solve the same problem that I am working on, but these papers are of *terrible* quality. Some of these papers:
1. introduce wrong solutions,
2. re-introduce a solution that is already published, or
3. are just very hard to understand because of the low quality of writing.
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12,973 | I am applying for doctoral programs in biostatistics and have read multiple places to attempt to set up contact with a potential advisor before applying.
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12,978 | I will graduate in 1 semester and I have realized towards the end of my B.S. in mathematical sciences that I would like to develop software. I know there's no degree requirement to do this.
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12,983 | Well, I am interested to know how much data, code, results, etc needs to be shared in a successful collaboration. For example: when engineers collaborate with AI researchers to optimize an engineering problem using specific algorithms, should engineers have access to the whole optimization dataset? Even optimization co... | [
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12,988 | Assume a search committee is reading my CV and in the publication section they notice some of my papers are only submitted or claimed to appear in a journal (or accepted for publication in a journal). Sometimes the journal which has accepted the paper for publication lists the title of accepted articles before actually... | [
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12,989 | I have been recently accepted into graduate school for my PhD in Mathematics. I feel very prepared and excited. However, my route is somewhat untraditional as I am "going back." That is, I am walking away from a well paying job. (I should mention that I am unmarried with no children.) I still have a lot of debt from un... | [
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12,996 | A bit of background, I am doing research in atmospheric physics and detection systems
Recently, I received a paper submission back with revisions suggested by a couple of reviewers. For the most part, the revisions were definitely constructive, justified and most importantly, helpful.
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13,007 | It is understandable if considering the educational record (where s/he has studied and how is his/her transcript) of an applicant applied for junior academic positions such as postdoctoral fellow or assistant professor. BUT, for senior academics, the factors for judging a potential full professor is his/her research, t... | [
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13,012 | During seminars and talks, some presenters hear a question and compliment it by saying "Good question." Could this possibly offend the asker? Could this be viewed as a tactic to pretend being unfazed by a difficult question?
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13,022 | In scientific conferences, there are usually many headhunters who come to offer newly graduated scholars jobs in the industry sector. As a matter of fact, the recruitment in industry mostly works with the headhunting system.
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13,031 | When addressing the past positions in a resume, although titles somewhat describes the role, they cannot clarify the importance of positions.
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13,034 | I'm currently having a hard time understanding if authors are using the word `methodology` correctly, or if their papers should be classified as BS. Hence, I set out to get a better feeling for the correct use of the word, but now I'm even more confused than before:
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13,042 | When writing a paper where you are citing from another paper which uses a different citation style, how should one cite portions of text that contain in-text citations? For example
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13,061 | Many questions on this website ask how university rankings affect the future career in research and graduate admissions. But it is not clear for me what is actually meant by ranking. There are various rankings of universities and many of them are contradictory.
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13,067 | Let's consider a paper that uses many different techniques to solve a **practical** problem. *The techniques that the paper uses have all already been published by others*. This paper only **modifies or customizes these techniques a bit to fit the particular question** that the paper is solving.
The techniques used ar... | [
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13,069 | I have had a few professors who announced to the class the mean and median scores for each exam, but I haven't seen anyone go further than this (e.g., announce this information for homework too, give a histogram of all the scores, etc.). Also, this information has always been kept semi-private, in the sense that it is ... | [
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13,079 | When I receive galley proofs of a paper, I look at possible errors introduced by the copy-editing team. But while I proofread the article, there are sometimes small mistakes I'd like to fix, which were not introduced by them (i.e. they were already present in the accepted version of the manuscript).
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13,089 | In the terminology for a peer-reviewed publication to be submitted to a reputable scientific journal, what are the differences and characteristic properties of the following?
* *draft*
* *manuscript*
* *preprint*
* *paper*
* *article*
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13,093 | I am a recent bachelor of technology graduate from India and want to become a research assistant just after b.tech at any abroad university (USA,CANADA,UK, etc). If it is possible then what kind of qualifications, GPA, academics are required? Also for becoming an RA at these universities is the GRE exam necessary? | [
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13,098 | The deadline for uploading conference papers (extended abstracts) for presentations at the AICHE conference (<http://www.aiche.org/conferences/aiche-annual-meeting/2013>) is tonight. I have already been accepted to present on the basis of my abstracts submitted a while ago. (I wasn't invited to this conference; it requ... | [
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13,099 | I often brainstorm research ideas on my whiteboard. I then run out of space and want to store and print the contents of the whiteboard. In general I [have a system of taking a photo of the whiteboard](http://jeromyanglim.tumblr.com/post/48596358182/whiteboard-workflow) with my phone, which is synchronised to dropbox, w... | [
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13,100 | When applying for jobs after my PhD, should my CV include an incomplete degree I read towards years ago? It's a field completely unrelated to what I'm doing now. However, before my final year when I started getting sups and failures by the dozen (my reason for quitting) things actually went swimmingly. I worked with a ... | [
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13,113 | I published a conference abstract with a undergraduate student of mine as a co-author. The work was presented as a poster and the conference doesn't publish proceedings/papers. I am now planning on publishing an extended version and want to drop her as a co-author. Can I do this?
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