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2016/10/26 | 3,073 | 13,141 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying a new type of essay in the community college class that I teach. Once a week the students write a 700 word analysis of a topic I choose. It's worth a regular essay (a measly 10 points) but I've been trying a new grading method.
Turn in the paper (1 points)
Peer analysis x 3 (3 poin... |
2016/10/26 | 533 | 2,361 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper in a springer journal. After just two days of submission status was under review. After another two days status changed to required reviews completed and your days have passed status is still required reviews completed. Why the process is so quick? How can the reviews be com... |
2016/10/26 | 611 | 2,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently editing and updating my thesis literature review before submitting my thesis next year.
In reviewing the relevant literature, I find that two of my results chapters published as journal articles are within the scope of the literature review and I would normally cite them in a re... |
2016/10/26 | 642 | 2,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried to find the same question and failed, so here it goes.
Imagine the following scenario: you have invested time (say 8 months) ona research project. You would probably get a publication in 4 more months of full time work. However, if you include two experts (who provide code) you could r... |
2016/10/26 | 1,242 | 5,138 | <issue_start>username_0: In the course of some research, my adviser and I noticed that a formula that is widely used in the field has an inaccuracy. It corrects for an effect that doesn't exist, so the correction makes things worse than they would be without it.
This formula was first published in the 1970s, and other... |
2016/10/26 | 5,178 | 22,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been experiencing anxiety based on some recent events. During my last semester of college I enrolled in a language course in a language in which I was already fluent. I did this to enable quicker graduation.
After the first two weeks of the class, it became apparent I wasn't going to be... |
2016/10/26 | 437 | 1,719 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understand, in academia 'Class of 20XX' refers to students graduating during the year 20XX irrespective of the year they joined college.
Suppose for a postgraduate course, one person chooses the full-time study mode while another chooses the part-time one. Both of them graduate during the... |
2016/10/26 | 1,543 | 6,426 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, morale in the lab that I work in has been dropping. I don't want to speak for everyone in the lab (there's >10 grad students and >5 postdocs/research faculty), but at least 3 or 4 of the other graduate students and 1 or 2 of the postdocs I've talked with have given me similar opinions... |
2016/10/27 | 315 | 1,305 | <issue_start>username_0: Because I teach at a doctoral institution, I get plenty of e-mails from prospective students asking me if I'm taking new doctoral students in the next academic year.
I'm not always sure how to answer them. Because admissions are done as a committee of the whole, I might have a student, I migh... |
2016/10/27 | 584 | 2,109 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically, I'm asking how to refer to a group of individuals who all have the same degree.
I'm referring to them in the third person, as in, "I work with a group of (x)".
let's just assume for purposes of the title, that all the individuals in said group actually have the literal job title "p... |
2016/10/27 | 1,087 | 4,778 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand references make a huge difference when applying to graduate programs.
Over my years in university, I have spoken to professors about projects / exams / papers. I definitely make use of their office hours. I also go to a top school and am set to graduate with high honors. I am an ... |
2016/10/27 | 4,209 | 17,451 | <issue_start>username_0: To be more specific, how do really top professors think about students who are much less smart than them, the students can be their Ph.D. students or just students who were taking his/her class.
This is a main problem I am concerned about when I have something I don't understand, and because o... |
2016/10/27 | 3,900 | 16,214 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a TA who is helping to grade student homework assignments for an undergrad engineering course which involves a lot of mathematics. The homeworks all together count for miserly 5% and is only graded based on completeness. One of my biggest petpeeves is poor hand writing for written work. I ... |
2016/10/27 | 1,250 | 5,418 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to apply for postdoc positions in the US through mathjobs. I already did it last year, so I have my reference letters from the previous time (which are probably pretty good).
Now here's my situation: During the last year, I was lucky to solve some well-known open problems in my fiel... |
2016/10/27 | 424 | 1,863 | <issue_start>username_0: I spent one summer working in a research lab during my undergraduate degree. Now that I am in 4th-year and applying to graduate schools, my former supervisor has asked if I would like to join his group.
I had an enjoyable experience in his group, but I think my talents lie towards the theoreti... |
2016/10/28 | 1,459 | 6,485 | <issue_start>username_0: When my students ask questions and participate in discussion, class is more thoughtful, more fun, and more effective. I encourage their participation by checking in with them regularly, and making sure that they have time to speak and that they get a respectful hearing. Still, perhaps half of t... |
2016/10/28 | 2,003 | 8,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year PhD student in the US. I work in my lab during the night-time. I find that one of the senior PhD students in my lab is into drugs big league. I would not mind that if it were not to affect me, but it does in two ways - sometimes the smell in the lab during the late hours is h... |
2016/10/28 | 663 | 2,674 | <issue_start>username_0: If I am writing a study paper and I have given some descriptors as to which systems will be measured (things such as "openness" and "availability" in my case) is it acceptable for me to provide a list of this after with a short sentence expanding on what metrics that word in intended to include... |
2016/10/28 | 432 | 1,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an email to prospective Ph.D advisor asking for a scholarship in his university and position in his research group. His reply was only "please, apply mentioning my name", I didn't understand if he accepted me or not!<issue_comment>username_1: As far as I can tell, he has neither accepted... |
2016/10/28 | 724 | 2,920 | <issue_start>username_0: Research indicates that taking notes by hand is better than using a computer, for long-term comprehension ([source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/)). As an engineering grad student, I also find that using pencil and paper for graphs,... |
2016/10/29 | 1,720 | 7,223 | <issue_start>username_0: About 18 months ago, I found a published paper which plagiarised my work.
I initially contacted the journal editors, but they did not respond. I then contacted Elsevier, which publishes the journal. After a series of emails over several months I was forwarded a fairly cold response from an edi... |
2016/10/29 | 2,076 | 8,495 | <issue_start>username_0: During a 3 hour midterm, my phone was confiscated because I had it on my person, when we weren't suppose to have the phone with us. My phone was on the chair in between my legs, but I was not using it.
Before the exam started I was reading a forum on my phone (forum for that course) and then I... |
2016/10/29 | 703 | 2,976 | <issue_start>username_0: Although it is somewhat discipline specific, in Australia, to receive honours for a bachelors degree, a student must undertake an additional, optional year of fulltime study, turning a three year degree into a four year degree. Generally, the vast majority of that year is spent conducting an in... |
2016/10/29 | 895 | 3,914 | <issue_start>username_0: As I know 'Emerging science citation index (ESCI) listed journals' will not receive an impact factor from '<NAME>'. Further, Science citation indexed (SCI) and Science citation index expanded (SCIE) journals receive impact factors.
Suppose I'm gonna apply for a scholarship for a PhD and that ... |
2016/10/29 | 667 | 2,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a 3-min presentation for a conference. I am an early researcher who has never done any presentation, so this will be my first.
Presentation is my weakness, and it is a challenge for me to give a smooth talk. I am feeling nervous.
**Q:** How common is to write out a script for a 3-min t... |
2016/10/29 | 2,231 | 9,362 | <issue_start>username_0: I think many here have had the experience of seeing a paper that uses grammar dramatically different than its student author has shown in the past, and naturally questioning the authorship follows. But what about when the student uses a single word or short phrase that is out of character? Is t... |
2016/10/29 | 378 | 1,471 | <issue_start>username_0: Has there a study been done regarding the issue? Because I've seen a lot of people directly pasting the doi at scihub without even checking if our institution library wifi has access to the particular journal (even when they are right in the lib).<issue_comment>username_1: The only study that I... |
2016/10/29 | 618 | 2,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my master’s degree in China and had worked for two years as a visiting student in the US. Although my master thesis’s supervisor promised to write me a recommendation letter, my visiting student advisor refused. He is the corresponding author of all my publications. What's more, research ... |
2016/10/29 | 650 | 2,305 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed that the ETHZ gives the following degrees / titles upon graduating:
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> Msc ETH [Subject] instead of MSc [Subject].
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I am aware that there already is a question on... |
2016/10/29 | 1,502 | 6,459 | <issue_start>username_0: I was to take the math subject GRE for the first time today, for my application to math Phd programs this December.
I receive accomodations because of my disability and ETS did not get back to me in time, though I did submit my paperwork well in advance of the exam. Because of this I could no... |
2016/10/29 | 1,037 | 4,005 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to have a routine life habit: having lunch at lunchtime, having dinner at dinnertime, going to sleep at 10pm, etc. After all, a healthy brain is in a health body. Moreover, while I can prioritize my thinking flow over my hunger, other people that I care can't. One or two days breaking th... |
2016/10/30 | 1,264 | 5,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm at a relatively small Liberal Arts College (top 25, so not "bad", just relatively small) and there are limited opportunities for research in the field I am interested in: behavioral science of resource consumption.
How strange would it be to email a professor from another undergrad instit... |
2016/10/30 | 657 | 2,579 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a little curious as to how mathematics graduate programs in the United States view subject GRE scores. Does a low score in the range of 60th percentile rule one out of top 20 programs?
I am quite slow and I probably got 35-38 (attempted 38) out of 66 questions right in the subject test w... |
2016/10/30 | 1,338 | 5,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to apply for Master of Science about electrical engineering, in USA. Most universities require 3 letters of recommendation and I am a little confused about from whom to get them.
I scored a very high GPA but I did not participate in any kind of research activities. However, there... |
2016/10/31 | 1,198 | 5,231 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor at a top USA university recently assigned a take-home exam for a masters-level computer science course. One of the questions was extremely difficult, but the answer was available online. However, the exam clearly stated, "Do not look online".
Most of the students know enough to dis... |
2016/10/31 | 239 | 1,037 | <issue_start>username_0: Supposed someone is the editor of a book, in which individual chapters of the book are contributed by different authors. Other researchers cite individual chapters of the book.
Can the editor of the book add these citations (for the individual chapters) to his own citation count?<issue_comment... |
2016/10/31 | 490 | 1,987 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying for Ph.D programs (applications are due in mid December, my semester ends in early December, and I am applying for the Fall semester) and I am asked to list my GPA. I currently have a 4.0 GPA, but that might change in between the end of my semester and the due date for ap... |
2016/10/31 | 637 | 2,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote my SOP very closely to JeffE's answer here: [Choosing research ideas to include in a statement of purpose](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1529/choosing-research-ideas-to-include-in-a-statement-of-purpose) Just a very straightforward, all research no BS statement.
My 3 let... |
2016/10/31 | 2,746 | 12,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and I wrote a computer program for my dissertation research. Recently my advisor professor got a grant and she wants to use my computer program in her grant and she asks me for the computer source-code. I will graduate next May and I am planning to use this program in my othe... |
2016/10/31 | 1,464 | 5,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my second year of my PhD and my advisor is very, very positive. She never gives me negative feedback, even when I objectively have made a mistake.
For instance, two months ago, I noticed that I had made a mistake in my code that invalidated about 6 months of work. She wasn't even mad, ... |
2016/10/31 | 694 | 3,159 | <issue_start>username_0: For reproducibility I see the use of mentioning the equipment type, version number and manufacturer. But in the internet age it seems unnecessary to me to mention the town and country of an equipment manufacturer in the methods section of an academic paper.
In my opinion it was probably useful... |
2016/10/31 | 357 | 1,515 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any sources where I can find the information regarding the research funds for PhD students and the purposes list on which it can be used?
There is 10% of annual stipend amount available as research fund for PhD students in my University, however I cannot find the regulations for it in... |
2016/10/31 | 497 | 1,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering buying an e-reader and my friend lent me a Kobo to have a go (and buy if I liked it), but I found I could not highlight PDFs. Clearly that is useless to me. I see Mendeley has a Kindle sync. Does anyone have experience with this?
I wonder if I am better off with a tablet despi... |
2016/10/31 | 899 | 3,552 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently teach part-time at a Canadian technical college. Over the past few years I've applied to full professorship openings in my department, while they require at least a masters degree preference is given to PhDs.
Each time I've been beaten out by PhD applicants, including those who are... |
2016/10/31 | 955 | 3,836 | <issue_start>username_0: So far, I puplished a paper (literature review) using the "classical" structure: Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion-Conclusion.
At the moment I am writing another paper which presents the result of our developments of a simulation approach. The paper should contain the following parts:
1.... |
2016/10/31 | 679 | 2,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received an immediate reject notice from the journal `ACM CSUR` mentioning that my written `survey` had 13% similar materials with respect to the online available sources. Passing through the instances one by one, it sounds to me that the majority are just the text of the references to t... |
2016/11/01 | 779 | 3,364 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Computer Science graduate (presently, working towards *Ph.D.*). I have been working in the field of Computational Biology/Chemistry, Bioinformatics which involves many different computational approaches. I am rather working towards the development of new computational methods.
However, ... |
2016/11/01 | 631 | 2,851 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for postdoc in physics this year. Every place asks for a statement of research or research plan/proposal for the application procedure. I have been recently following papers on a very interesting topic of research. Although I have no concrete problem/question in mind. I cannot res... |
2016/11/01 | 341 | 1,371 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for PhD position and later I received an email telling that: *I regret to inform that you have not been selected for this position*, how may I send a follow up email, if should I do so?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> how may I send a follow up email, if should I do so?
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2016/11/01 | 554 | 2,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my master thesis and found some master and PhD theses with the similar subject. They have lots of useful references at their introduction chapter, and I use those references and create my own text with a similar thought flow, would this be considered plagiarism?<issue_comment>userna... |
2016/11/02 | 521 | 2,058 | <issue_start>username_0: In qualitative research (semi- structured interviews) do we have to use verbatim quotes in reporting the findings?<issue_comment>username_1: There are actually two concerns here:
1. **Is it plagiarism?**
The authors of the theses you are reading have made an intellectual contribution: interp... |
2016/11/02 | 756 | 3,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I have couple questions for you guys and I hope to find some answers here.
Scenario:
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I finished my master's degree with a thesis at school A. During my master's program at school A, I was a research assistant for my thesis adviser (Let's call him Professor A).
Now, I am applying t... |
2016/11/02 | 3,010 | 12,265 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I find an article online. I contact the writer of this article and, without expecting anything in return, they agree to give me full, unrestricted rights to use any portion of their article, including directly using quotes from the article, without citing it. The agreement even allows... |
2016/11/02 | 1,353 | 5,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to choose a supervisor for my upcoming term project. I asked one of my professors if he had any ideas for a project for a student with my skill set, and he offered to supervise me as he wasn't teaching during the project timeline.
Getting to the point, this was way early in the course,... |
2016/11/02 | 1,688 | 7,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior freelance software engineer, with about 10 years' experience. I've been working in a university setting for the past year, as a contractor. Usually I work in a commercial environment.
During the year, I've done 15-20 days' work on each of 2 different projects that should have tu... |
2016/11/02 | 1,329 | 5,912 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a small interdisciplinary field in which one group writes a lot of papers that aren't good but are often read. When I publish on a topic that they have published on before, should I cite them even if their work is irrelevant to mine?
More context:
The prolific group publishes a lot... |
2016/11/02 | 589 | 2,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to go to a strong graduate school. Currently I have a somewhat high GPA at about 3.8. However, there is a program at my university where we can spend an extra year to obtain a Master's Degree.
I initially intended on spreading my workload and graduate on time by taking about 3 cl... |
2016/11/03 | 286 | 1,295 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received this reviewers comment ("REFERENCES" section should be block ), what does it mean?
**Update:** There comment was
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2016/11/03 | 447 | 1,982 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my article rejected from two journals in a row as they think my work is not suitable for submission in their journals. It was my fault that I could not properly understand the aim and scope of these journals. Now I am submitting my work to a third journal after thoroughly checking the aim... |
2016/11/03 | 824 | 3,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't think my research professor takes me seriously. I have noticed that in several of my meetings with my PI, he gets distracted very easily.
Now I know of people my age who get distracted (in their 20s), but he insists it's something natural... and he's way older. For example at our last... |
2016/11/03 | 701 | 2,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an European citizen applying for some academic jobs in US.
I have some doubts on one question I have to answer during the application process
**1) Are you presently legally authorized to work in the United States?**
My answer to this question is NO
**2) Will you be able to provide pro... |
2016/11/03 | 950 | 3,885 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2015), and now I am doing a postdoc in Computer Science at a top tier university. I have a decent number of publications (>12) in respectable journals in my field, and an h-index of 5, some awards, travel grants, and so on. While I know numbers... |
2016/11/03 | 949 | 4,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked by the editor of a mathematical journal to review a submission by an author (unknown to me) which heavily relies upon some of my earlier work. I do not have much experience with writing peer reviews, but I have a good grasp of the topic of the submission.
The new results in the sub... |
2016/11/03 | 566 | 2,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a research proposal and I plan to approach it by dividing the most important functions of university into three categories--teaching, research and service.
Teaching will include all forms of education afforded to students.
Research broadly refers to all attempts at generating n... |
2016/11/03 | 424 | 1,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finding a supervisor for an MSc program. It is incredibly difficult to get research experience as an undergraduate student (especially since I attend a large school with an incredible amount of competition). However, I make the best use of resources available to me. I have joined... |
2016/11/03 | 566 | 2,544 | <issue_start>username_0: To be honest, I'm not sure how exactly to word my question in order not to cause any miss-understanding.
During my literature review sometimes I encounter with researches which propose an approach with promising results. Then when I try to use it or to investigate its theoretical principles I... |
2016/11/03 | 1,261 | 5,284 | <issue_start>username_0: I started graduate school recently. A professor was talking about impostor syndrome and said that everyone goes through it. They made a joke saying that if you don't feel like an impostor, something is wrong.
Well, I certainly don't feel like an impostor. I'm doing well in my studies and a pr... |
2016/11/03 | 731 | 3,291 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know how I can shop for an advisor (between departments) that does his job: advises students without coercing them to put things in their dissertation they don't believe in or choosing topics for them so that they themselves can profit. I guess I want to find the signs of a not-bad ad... |
2016/11/03 | 503 | 2,221 | <issue_start>username_0: Is possible to apply to a PhD psychology program, and if accepted, then transfer a year later to another program that is higher in ranking?<issue_comment>username_1: It might be possible, but I would not recommend it unless there are very special circumstances. For example, if your advisor is m... |
2016/11/03 | 667 | 2,855 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the prestige / difficulty of my undergraduate school taken into consideration when I apply to graduate school? I understand that it is not an excuse my lower grades (however, my GPA is respectable). I am wondering if this has an influence.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it will not be a huge... |
2016/11/04 | 1,150 | 5,205 | <issue_start>username_0: Since the purpose of a PhD is to learn proper research skills, which should be applicable to any subject area, and since people can publish in subject areas unrelated to their dissertation, does it really matter which subject one chooses to research for their PhD?
Clearly, there are issues of ... |
2016/11/04 | 670 | 2,893 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a procedure in place to cover the possibility that someone might find an efficient algorithm to factor large numbers and thereby break RSA encryption? This is just an instance of the more general problem where someone wants to publish a result that breaks an encryption standard. It see... |
2016/11/04 | 1,441 | 6,141 | <issue_start>username_0: Would a professor find it strange or be irritated if an unknown student asks him a question during his office hours that is related to his field but either is or isn't related to any class he is teaching?
Sometimes I encounter a math problem in my engineering class where I'd find it helpful i... |
2016/11/04 | 850 | 3,759 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received the review reports for my first grant. All four scores were 5 out of 6. The comments are also mostly positive. Two criticised a bit about the pathways to impact and the support from the department, but nothing major.
What do you think I should write in my response? I've dr... |
2016/11/04 | 551 | 2,355 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply to a PhD program in applied mathematics next year, and by that time my MSc thesis (which is in pure mathematics) should be finished.
In case my research results are not significant enough to be published in a journal, how will my thesis be evaluated for the sake of the a... |
2016/11/04 | 1,026 | 4,421 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be graduating with a PhD and so I have one coming up soon. It seems like a new trend in academia. It is usually for all graduate students who enter the program when they leave it, with or without finishing. For example: ece.rice.edu/~suman/grad\_council/exit.html. It is not to be confuse... |
2016/11/04 | 538 | 2,286 | <issue_start>username_0: Would you have an advantage when applying for some graduate school if you write in your forms that you own some useful equipment already from your independent research and you would offer free time to the institute to use it or for undergraduate teaching purposes. Something in the price range o... |
2016/11/04 | 477 | 2,015 | <issue_start>username_0: Can you apply and be admitted to a graduate school without having an undergraduate degree?<issue_comment>username_1: That might certainly catch my eye if I read your application, but I'm not sure how much weight it would carry. I would be a bit nervous offering it quid pro quo - that seems to g... |
2016/11/04 | 460 | 1,743 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a respectable cGPA of 3.5 and annual GPA of 3.7. I am hoping to graduate with at least a cGPA of 3.5 which would award me with "high honours". I am not trying to find an "excuse" for a low GPA (since mine is rather high), but rather emphasize that I was able to achieve those marks while ... |
2016/11/04 | 142 | 580 | <issue_start>username_0: I have sent an academic job application with a cover letter starting "Dear Madam or Sir,..." and I've just realised that the correct form is instead "Dear Search Committee Chair,...". Have I made a huge mistake?<issue_comment>username_1: Probably not. I doubt anyone is going to catch it and, if... |
2016/11/04 | 537 | 2,272 | <issue_start>username_0: If somebody receives an email from a journal stating that their paper is accepted for publication, should they write back? If so, what should they say?<issue_comment>username_1: There might be exceptions of which I'm not aware of, but usually, no, you don't reply, unless there are specific quer... |
2016/11/05 | 480 | 2,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for some kind of Visa. Part of the application is to prove my contributions to the research community and one of these contributions is the list of papers I reviewed. Not just the number of articles but the titles, emails from editors inviting me, screenshots from editorial manage... |
2016/11/05 | 647 | 2,894 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife is finishing her doctorate in a few years in a very specific field: Assessment (or Language Testing) of learners' English as a Foreign Language. She will probably apply for research professorships (including advising doctoral graduate students) when she graduates and I have suggested th... |
2016/11/05 | 1,255 | 5,086 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had a paper accepted in a Springer journal, which allows "Open Choice", meaning that the article can be made Open Access. My institution covers the charges, so I agreed to do it and now it's in process of publication.
My question is: when I first submitted the manuscript, I also pu... |
2016/11/05 | 1,477 | 6,508 | <issue_start>username_0: There are two tracks for my field of study. One is taught in Dutch and the other in English. This is in the Netherlands. A while ago we had to take a multiple choice exam in English, which looked a bit odd. The sentence construction of the questions makes little sense at first glance, and it to... |
2016/11/05 | 1,255 | 5,136 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it OK to still ask for references, if I know I may not use some of them in my PhD applications?
I wanted to ask the potential referees if they're willing first - but I might not necessarily use some of them, because - for example a stronger prospective referee agrees to write letters for me... |
2016/11/06 | 1,053 | 4,640 | <issue_start>username_0: As an instructor or teaching assistant for a graduate class at a top institution, is it okay to tell students (e.g. in homework feedback) that they need to improve their English? What's the best way to do so without offending or discouraging them?
I'm specifically asking for math/science-based... |
2016/11/06 | 976 | 4,326 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to submit a paper for publication. The journal is asking to provide a list of experts who have published several high quality papers in the field of interest. Is there away to find this out easily?<issue_comment>username_1: You may prepare a list of local resources where an internat... |
2016/11/07 | 1,068 | 4,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a 3 page letter and my advisor basically told me to prepare it by myself and send it for submission.
I have written papers before, but in most of those cases my advisors helped me a lot in revising the papers. Perhaps my advisor wants me to see how much trouble it is to publish a... |
2016/11/07 | 1,090 | 4,736 | <issue_start>username_0: English is sadly my only language even though my parents and majority of my relatives are bilingual, and I completed my bachelor's and master's in a university where the medium of instruction is English and in a country where English is one of the official languages.
Despite this, some departm... |
2016/11/07 | 2,739 | 11,814 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical for a journal to cancel an accepted review request when they have obtained sufficient number of reviews to make a decision?
This happened to me recently and I think this is not the first time. They set a deadline for submitting the review, and sent a reminder. I did not reply, as... |
2016/11/07 | 744 | 3,254 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been involved in my PhD now for about half a year but my setup is potentially more uncommon. It feels very independent because I havent got a research group I'm involved in at all. It's literally just me and two of my supervisors and I work in a completely separate building to both of th... |
2016/11/07 | 828 | 3,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for post-doc position. I was invited for two interviews on close dates. I already did the first one and got the job. I am going to accept the offer because the research is very nice, the institution has high publication-records and it is closer to my family. Unfortunately one of t... |
2016/11/08 | 1,411 | 5,331 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for PhD programs (or [MPhil](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/79389/mphil-applications-how-flexible-sure-should-i-be-and-should-i-mention-this-po) or [MS](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42304/with-a-background-in-mathematical-finance-and-desire-to-apply-f... |
2016/11/08 | 858 | 3,550 | <issue_start>username_0: In e-mail correspondence, the author of an competing paper has admitted a shortcoming of their method, roughly: "Yes, our method X does not work when used with Y." This is not obvious from their paper and is quite a big point from my perspective.
Can I cite this e-mail correspondence in my mas... |
2016/11/08 | 991 | 4,638 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I make a new algorithm to calculate something. How do I know that the exact algorithm has been found or not? I know that I can check scientific journals to figure that out. But surely checking every single journals available is not a feasible way to figure that out, especially sinc... |
2016/11/08 | 1,196 | 4,983 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach in a social services environment, where adult dropouts are working toward a GED and perhaps furthering their education. I embrace a transformative education model (Mezirow, 1991) and strive to instill confidence in my students. Most of the learners are female with multiple lifestyle cha... |
2016/11/08 | 398 | 1,605 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply to PhD courses at 2 different universities.
Professor A is at the first school, and professor B is at the second school.
I already communicated with the professor A. I am also thinking of writing a contact e-mail to professor B.
Professor A and Professor B are quite c... |
2016/11/08 | 596 | 2,511 | <issue_start>username_0: So this is an interesting thing I've come across. I recently purchased a modern book for my research and whoever had the book before me had some pretty great things written in the margins.
As a medievalist, citing marginalia is par the course, but this strikes me as a bit different for two re... |
2016/11/09 | 422 | 1,832 | <issue_start>username_0: The title is the question: can you plagiarize yourself within the same document? For example within a book of thousand pages, do you have to reference ideas from page 50 when you use them on page 950?<issue_comment>username_1: If the part of concern contains any cited materials, when reused it ... |