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2016/12/22 | 1,137 | 4,181 | <issue_start>username_0: To be admitted to my PhD in Mechanical Engineering, I had to have a 1-year coursework, with 8 subjects and a research-proposal defense. Here in Portugal, an “Advanced Studies Diploma” in Portuguese "Diploma de Estudos Avançados" is awarded, but I would like to know what it’s really worth becaus... |
2016/12/22 | 1,535 | 6,491 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I have done a collaborative work, where I do 80% of the work. Hence, I am the first author. Now my collaborator goes to a conference to present a poster of that work. In the poster too, my name is (for the obvious reason) first. But my collaborator is the presenting author. Now if the p... |
2016/12/22 | 870 | 3,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently accepted to referee a mathematics paper. This is my first referring assignment and was wondering if there are free plagiarism checkers more suitable for math papers.
***side note:*** Several years ago I saw a paper stating a theorem which sounded so familiar to me. I happened to hav... |
2016/12/22 | 631 | 2,587 | <issue_start>username_0: After looking up the journal name (Journal for Internet Technology and Secured Transaction (JITST)), I discovered this journal was not listed in either the SCI or EI indexes. Is this journal worth publishing in? More generally, how do I judge journals that are not indexed?<issue_comment>usernam... |
2016/12/22 | 796 | 3,180 | <issue_start>username_0: What can stop a university from doing whatever they want and screwing students over in terms of accusing them **unfairly** of cheating, plagiarism, or a misunderstanding of professor authorization of essay re-submission in a second class? Also trying to take a student's degree or credit away af... |
2016/12/22 | 263 | 1,095 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a class that started at 5:30. Another class I was taking started the same time. Can I get a refund or sue for this, as there should have been a message not letting me complete my schedule because of the conflict?<issue_comment>username_1: No, that sounds like something that you should be... |
2016/12/22 | 972 | 4,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I am transitioning from junior to senior researcher status. I have several publications as first author, many as coauthor, and a few as senior (last and corresponding) author.
As people perceive differently the role of authors according to their position, especially when looking briefly at a s... |
2016/12/22 | 444 | 1,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed my potential supervisor to express my interest in her works. We talked once and I was encouraged to apply to the university. Recently, I emailed her to inform her that I have submitted my application. I got a response from my potential supervisor that I am admitted. How should I thank... |
2016/12/22 | 499 | 2,053 | <issue_start>username_0: In the Information for Authors of several (health) related journals, manuscript types may include *original research* and *review* articles, among others.
I thought systematic reviews (whether quantitative or qualitative) should be submitted as *review* submissions, as opposed to, for example... |
2016/12/23 | 985 | 3,991 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting to work on my thesis on analyzing the social network. My question is about using ethical procedures to access data.
1. Is it ethical to use Facebook messages as the source of my data if I have permission from the other users?
2. Is it alright to create a chatroom to create a chat... |
2016/12/23 | 716 | 2,841 | <issue_start>username_0: What is *Summa cum Laude* and how do you get it (USA)? Is this equivalent to *First Class Honors* in Australia? What is the equivalent of an *Australian University medal* in the USA?<issue_comment>username_1: Each university can define *summa cum laude* and *magna cum laude* as it choses. Honou... |
2016/12/23 | 561 | 2,188 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for good options for tools to manage my PhD students, in terms of seeing that they are on track in working out their PhD theses (I am in the UK, three year system) and are hitting their necessary milestones. Each year, as the number of students I supervise grow, it becomes more unw... |
2016/12/23 | 878 | 3,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate majoring in computer science. I want to apply for a top Master program in the US. I have done the GRE test and most of the other things required.
I am currently doing research with my professor so there might be more publication to come but it will be later than the appli... |
2016/12/23 | 630 | 2,602 | <issue_start>username_0: I am willing to apply for a Ph.D next year and by September I am planning to graduate from a M.Sc. in Economics. I am trying to choose my mentor for my final thesis but I was wondering which is the impact of a Master thesis on a Ph.D. application.
I know there are many thing that will be taken... |
2016/12/23 | 418 | 1,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to Grad School. I have indicated three references. However, one of them has not yet completed. He has stopped responding to mails and phone calls too. Would it be wise to change him with some other reference ?
If it is of any importance, the person in the question is my undergra... |
2016/12/23 | 917 | 3,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope that you can give me a good advice on my situation.
I'm a PhD student with 3 advisors: one main advisor and 2 co-supervisors. I'm very happy with them all and we are working on a paper together. They are very good at providing feedback and criticism (mostly because they don't have other... |
2016/12/24 | 2,336 | 9,811 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad in biology, long story short, I was looking a professor's CV (not in medicine) and he had indicated his GPA in his grad school (apparently he had the highest in his program). But what about medical school? I read somewhere that courses in med school are pass/fail and not graded... |
2016/12/24 | 1,487 | 6,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first-year pure math PhD student. I'm going to take an oral qualifying exam in a few months, and for this I need to find at least one person who agrees to be my adviser and one of the examiners in the qual. I'm interested in symplectic topology, and I have already talked with a professor ... |
2016/12/24 | 789 | 3,449 | <issue_start>username_0: In the US, most Ph.D. programs accept far fewer students with master degrees compared to students who just graduate from college with a bachelor. Why is that the case since master students are supposed to have more background and maybe more research experience than students who just graduated f... |
2016/12/25 | 633 | 2,751 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a few good ideas in the area of evolutionary economics which I would like to discuss with an established researcher. How do I go about doing this? I live in Bangalore, India, where there don't seem to be any researchers in this area.
Do I just put it together as best as I can and email ... |
2016/12/25 | 726 | 3,204 | <issue_start>username_0: We got a small set of good outcomes from some work that we were doing in recent months. However, the outcomes are not so good to be published in good conferences (CS).
So, we decided to post and keep it online via arXiv.
Recently, one of my friends rang me and asked to publish the work in no... |
2016/12/25 | 3,057 | 12,091 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an instructor at an American university. A student of mine, Student H, claimed that he was very sick and had to miss the final exam. Based on my trusting students in general, I allowed Student H to take a make-up exam, which took place about 4 hours after the actual exam finished.
About t... |
2016/12/25 | 677 | 2,933 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my masters at University X and I am continuing my PhD in the same university which allows me to transfer up to 20 credit hours of my masters coursework to my PhD course requirements which is 27 credit hours. So now I only need to finish 7 credit hours and I will be done with the PhD ... |
2016/12/25 | 516 | 2,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I am always stuck by the randomness of some syntax rules in academic articles, hence I cannot infer a proper answer to this question:
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> Is there a correct way to choose among "X theorem" and "X's theorem"?
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I chose the word "theorem" for my concern comes from reading mathematics, b... |
2016/12/25 | 1,592 | 6,404 | <issue_start>username_0: I have developed (or rather partially developed, if to be exact, as there are some unsolved conjectures and other white spots) a new abstract, fundamental, pure math theory.
I have published it as a freely available book (plus supplementary materials such as a partial draft of the second volum... |
2016/12/25 | 434 | 1,638 | <issue_start>username_0: A student submitted a paper in an art history class that contained some ideas from art critics she read about, and whose ideas she agreed with. The student didn't cite the critics as source, but claimed it wasn't plagiarism because their ideas were merely their own subjective judgments, or opin... |
2016/12/25 | 479 | 2,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there isn't an absolute answer but I certainly could use some hindsight.
I'm writing an SOP for an Msc at TU Delft in Aerospace, and I am having trouble with two parts of it : specifically I'm required to provide hypothetical thesis topics and explain why among the different tracks in Ae... |
2016/12/25 | 1,332 | 5,571 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that was just accepted (but not yet published) in an open access journal. I am also upgrading my website right now, and I would like to know if I am allowed to post pictures which are in the paper (which I made) on my own personal website. I know that by publishing in a journal, ... |
2016/12/25 | 1,100 | 4,475 | <issue_start>username_0: Admissions committees look at a student's entire transcript to get an understanding of their academic abilities. Why is it not sufficient to judge a student's academics based on GPA alone?<issue_comment>username_1: The problem with GPA as a measure is that it just mixes together a bunch of diff... |
2016/12/26 | 1,893 | 7,737 | <issue_start>username_0: An [answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/82205/32436) to a recent question about the importance of looking at a student's whole transcript got me thinking. Is there some other way of summing up a student's academic performance, other than the GPA? Something that would distinguish among ... |
2016/12/26 | 1,979 | 7,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited to interview at several graduate schools this upcoming February. All of the programs are in the fields of biochemistry and biophysics. What is appropriate attire for graduate school interviews? One of the schools mentioned business casual. Does anyone have any good suggestions? I ... |
2016/12/26 | 849 | 3,783 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in the field of operations management. I've just finished writing a chapter in a handbook and am thinking about rewriting it into a publishable paper.
How much of the content can be the same and what else do I need to consider - such as empirical data, new conceptual develop... |
2016/12/26 | 1,253 | 5,070 | <issue_start>username_0: There is no particular reason that I want my preprint paper both on my blog and on arXiv, but I just thought it would look nice on my blog. If I were to do this, will arXiv mark my paper as plagiarized, because there is another copy on my blog? If so, how do I prevent this (is there an option t... |
2016/12/26 | 1,095 | 4,795 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a colleague who is coming up for tenure review shortly, and there is a problem with his teaching history. He was hired to teach classes specifically in area X, although his research is in a slightly different area (Y). I was on the committee that hired him, and the teaching was a major p... |
2016/12/26 | 729 | 2,895 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I teach a college level math course at a community college with secondary mathematics certification.<issue_comment>username_1: It is my understanding that secondary mathematics certification and community college teaching are "disjoint sets," such that having the certification is neither re... |
2016/12/27 | 334 | 1,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I just recently got a job as a research assistant over the holiday (which will later turn into an unpaid independent study project). Before hiring me for the job, my supervisor asked me if I would be taking a week off for vacation during the holidays. I told him no. However, for Christmas, I re... |
2016/12/27 | 829 | 3,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently in the first semester of MSc of psychology in a university in Germany and we got a lecturer from a university abroad who wanted to know what we had published. To his surprise, none of us had any publications. For us at least, not having any publications when entering the graduate ... |
2016/12/27 | 491 | 1,949 | <issue_start>username_0: If the main purpose of an article is to present/introduce a new method, can it still be entitled "A Comparative Study"? Or does it depend on how much of the article is devoted to the comparison of related methods? I am asking from the perspective of a reviewer.<issue_comment>username_1: In many... |
2016/12/27 | 1,076 | 3,411 | <issue_start>username_0: Research has shown that [most of the published studies in various fields are false](http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124). For example, the [Reproducibility Project: Psychology](https://osf.io/ezcuj/) only managed to confirm 36% of previous 100 psycholog... |
2016/12/27 | 1,755 | 6,305 | <issue_start>username_0: What are some of the serious consequence that my friend could suffer if he tries to pretend that he has never gone to a Community college before?
(He thinks that it will make the 4 year college admission officer look down upon him.)<issue_comment>username_1: In the United States, and probably ... |
2016/12/27 | 972 | 4,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got a major revision from an applied math journal. However the only change the reviewer has asked is to put a remark on some theorem in the paper (why the specified theorem will not work under some general case). According to the reviewers the rest of the paper is fine.
I am slight... |
2016/12/28 | 1,099 | 4,588 | <issue_start>username_0: As a deferred action for early childhood arrival ([DACA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals)) student, I found out that I am not eligible for federal fellowships from the government or through the university.
Some universities allow for fellowships to DACA stu... |
2016/12/28 | 2,713 | 11,348 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently was offered 2 researcher job offers in two different countries. The first one is from the USA and the second one is in Japan. The professor in USA prepared all the documents for a J-1 Visa and after receiving them I have been issued a visa for 2 years.
I have now been offered anothe... |
2016/12/28 | 417 | 1,879 | <issue_start>username_0: I did post doc in a university where i did experiments. Later after i rejoined job, i worked on it for 2 years, developed analysis methods and together with prof through communication by mail send it to a reputed journal with the prof being the corresponding author. The mail from the journal fo... |
2016/12/28 | 1,378 | 5,763 | <issue_start>username_0: My application to a specific PhD position was rejected. I was informed about it last week and I wasn't even invited to an interview. The information was a standard email telling me that "despite your evident qualifications, there were better candidates". Now, I see that the institution re-poste... |
2016/12/28 | 1,555 | 6,645 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on a case study paper with a colleague, who is the first name on the paper. He is writing his PhD thesis and I am writing my MSc. thesis under the supervision of the same advisor.
Is it okay both of us to use the same results/findings of this paper in our theses?
Advisor tol... |
2016/12/28 | 578 | 2,358 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I measure the quality of literature review by analyzing the argument created in the literature review chapter of a masters thesis to see whether the arguments are consistent or inconsistent?<issue_comment>username_1: An inconsistent argument is bad, but an consistent argument alone is not e... |
2016/12/28 | 1,104 | 4,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my master's degree in September, and I have applied to PhD programs that begin in September 2017. Most of the schools asked for a CV with the application. I've had to take a part-time job in retail to make ends meet while looking for a better job, and I included the retail job on my ... |
2016/12/28 | 543 | 2,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in education who recently had a child. I have devised a few plans/topics that would work for my thesis but I keep revisiting them because they require a lot of data collection in the field, something I am not sure I will be able to achieve with a young baby at home and n... |
2016/12/28 | 2,591 | 10,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I find myself in an unfortunate two-body problem situation. My fiancée got two offers earlier this year, one a post doc and the other a tenure track position. She deferred the tenure track for a year and is currently halfway through her post doc. The university she got the tenure track position... |
2016/12/28 | 722 | 3,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Criminal Justice AA degree & ten years of law enforcement experience. I'm considering going back for something like a Master's in Law Enforcement Administration or Criminology, however financially I would need to be in a master's program because of the funding tier that opens up.
Can... |
2016/12/29 | 509 | 2,040 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a senior in mathematics at the University of Illinois (Urbana). I will be graduating sometimes in 2017, and I would like to go to grad school straight after graduation.
How many credit hours of mathematics does an average successful student take before applying to graduate school?<issue_c... |
2016/12/29 | 527 | 2,309 | <issue_start>username_0: There's one theoretical concept I feel I need to explain briefly in the literature review portion of my MA thesis, but it's very slightly tangential and I don't want to spend more than a paragraph on it. A textbook provides the most all-encompassing, thumbnail sketch of this concept, which woul... |
2016/12/29 | 1,116 | 4,588 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student, from Europe, nearing the end of my thesis.
I'm going to the USA for a conference in a few months. A couple of professors (assistant professor level, both fairly young, recruited in the past 2 or 3 years) whose work I'm very interested in teach in the vicinity of the conferen... |
2016/12/29 | 615 | 2,612 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that a person was born in country A and the language of country A was his mother language (non-English); he then immigrates to country B (English speaking), is a citizen of country B and has done his undergraduate entirely in country B. This person had no need to typeset anything in his... |
2016/12/29 | 710 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read several books about argument and I have problem in interpretation from English to Bahasa. Is there any difference between claim, support, and premise in argument?<issue_comment>username_1: Formally (see, for example, [Campbell and Huxman](http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.... |
2016/12/29 | 632 | 2,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I ask this question because there are institutions that pay authors an honorarium to add the institution as an additional affiliation when the authors publish, even when those authors do not have any kind of contract or appointment with the institution, nor do research or teach there. This is c... |
2016/12/29 | 1,299 | 5,587 | <issue_start>username_0: According to Wikipedia:
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> A **tenured professor** or curator has an appointment that lasts until retirement age, except for dismissal with **just cause**. A common justification for existence of such a privileged position is the principle of academic freedom, which holds that it is benefici... |
2016/12/29 | 837 | 3,606 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to find a doctoral program without a capstone, project, or a dissertation, because I do not find a value in doing a project.
But why isn't there a doctoral degree that does not involve a major project?<issue_comment>username_1: The doctoral degree indicates that you are ready to "d... |
2016/12/29 | 376 | 1,767 | <issue_start>username_0: If you are asked to participate in review of a conference paper to which you have yourself submitted a paper, what is likelihood that *your* paper has been accepted?
Or is it possible that they would ask an author of the rejected work to participate in the review of remaining submissions?<issu... |
2016/12/29 | 704 | 3,045 | <issue_start>username_0: Would professors keep an undergrad student's essay to contribute to knowledge in a certain field? I mean keep for the purpose of citing and using it as a reference when conducting further research on the topic.
Or are they designed to just reiterate information already known just to prove tha... |
2016/12/30 | 3,231 | 14,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a pure mathematics [problem](https://fourierkingdom.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/a-jumping-fourier/) which I formulated after years of research in signal processing of audio signals and years going into formulating a problem on precise mathematical terms, which is a provable/disprovable math... |
2016/12/30 | 875 | 3,703 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm still in the beginnings of my life as a graduate student researcher. My advisor is pushing me to submit my work to upcoming conferences. Now, I'm a complete novice to these procedures, so I began to sift through various conference websites to learn a bit more. I noticed that some conference... |
2016/12/30 | 660 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: Is undergrad research experience related to the undergrad field preferred, or can I do research on the area I plan to study in grad school instead?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> Is undergrad research experience related to the undergrad field preferred, or can I do research on the area I plan t... |
2016/12/30 | 1,066 | 4,792 | <issue_start>username_0: I just submitted an article using data from another study that was done together with a colleague. I am (technically) the first author of the first study, though we are equally credited first authors and we did refine the first study’s design together, though it was my idea and I wrote the soft... |
2016/12/30 | 2,184 | 8,817 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for an assistant professor position at a research university (in one of the hard sciences). It is stated in the announcement that some teaching will be required, and a teaching statement is needed for for the application.
I only have limited teaching experience. I have never taug... |
2016/12/30 | 2,473 | 10,427 | <issue_start>username_0: Our research (me being one of the co-authors) consists of two main sub-cases which are too long to be in a single paper. So, they were divided into two parts--Part1 and Part2. Both of these papers contain the same text in many places (theory,introduction,procedure). The authors for both the pap... |
2016/12/30 | 659 | 2,753 | <issue_start>username_0: Specifically, I'm in the field of Computer Science, where conferences (such as [EuroS&P](http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2017/)) have lots of cool [affiliated events](http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2017/events.php), some of which have proceedings and some which do not.
I am more ... |
2016/12/30 | 2,787 | 11,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a chemistry undergrad in the honors college at my school and the following happened:
1. Last Spring, the college held a research conference and I did REALLY well with one judge (49/50) and poorly with another. The judge I did poorly with cited the wrong research project, or whoever tallied... |
2016/12/31 | 1,480 | 6,066 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate I submitted a paper of mine to a reputable journal. Fearing that I would be desk-rejected for simply being an undergraduate, I stated in my submission bio that I was a PhD candidate. It turns out the paper is going to be published and I am curious if there are any long term ... |
2017/01/01 | 1,563 | 6,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student, and I still don't have an advisor. I chose this school because it has a ton of people working in the sub-field I am interested in (Mathematical Optimization). I tried lab rotations with three of the 'stars' here, but they didn't work out - two were busy during th... |
2017/01/01 | 954 | 3,803 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals request that authors follow a specific style manual (e.g., APA or Chicago manuals of style).
One style rule is to avoid starting a sentence with an abbreviation (with some exceptions).
However, I found it unnecessary to spell out abbreviations like ANOVA (analysis of variance) ... |
2017/01/01 | 2,982 | 11,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math postdoc, currently working on some conjecture. To avoid going into details, let's formulate it as follows: "every runcible doohickey is cromulent". A senior colleague told me last year that if I proved it, it would make for a "really nice paper" (that's her words).
Eight months ago... |
2017/01/02 | 1,407 | 5,729 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently thinking about getting a masters degree and many of the schools I look for require 3 reference letters from professors that has taught me.
Unfortunately, I've never really invested in building personal relationships with my professors and though I am quite confident with my abi... |
2017/01/02 | 723 | 3,202 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to end PhD within next 5-6 months. The PhD program I am enrolled in is different compare to normal universities PhD programs. During first 2 years I took course work from a regular university as an exchange student and afterword I start working in a research institutes whose prime ta... |
2017/01/02 | 1,409 | 5,949 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoctoral researcher. My professor recently asked me to co-supervise one of her doctoral students, whom she also employed full-time as a research scientist. Since I had no prior experience advising at the doctoral level, I gladly accepted. Unfortunately, the guy turned out to be a phen... |
2017/01/02 | 615 | 2,043 | <issue_start>username_0: What does "Associate Faculty" mean, as used for example in [this job advert](http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/about/careers/positions/faculty-and-associate-faculty-positions?cm_mid=6392519&cm_crmid=30a52430-b325-e211-91d5-005056800012&cm_medium=email) headlined
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> FACULTY AND ASSOCIATE FACUL... |
2017/01/02 | 396 | 1,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying to graduate school and trying to gather some solid letters of recommendation.
During my undergraduate studies, I worked in a research lab and while I didn't get that close with the professor, I decided to take a shot and ask her for a letter of recommendation. I sent an... |
2017/01/02 | 1,133 | 4,639 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently working on my master's thesis, I know that I have to consider that I am writing for an appropriate audience, that is, I write for people who have at least a bachelor's degree in my field (mathematics).
However, I need to use standard results that one learns in third year (in my insti... |
2017/01/03 | 663 | 2,679 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is mainly about the perceived prestige of various events at conferences. Is there a hierarchy to it? Asking this in the perspective of being the presenter. Another way of putting it would be is "10 oral papers on my resume better" or "3 oral, 3 posters, 3 workshops, 1 tutorial on ... |
2017/01/03 | 5,611 | 23,570 | <issue_start>username_0: Oral exams can have [various pedagogical benefits](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/82651/11365) in certain circumstances, but can also make some students feel anxious. After watching several students nervous-sweat their way through such an exam, I'm looking for ways to help them.
How can... |
2017/01/03 | 1,810 | 7,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to teach a class with about 100 students. The class has weekly take-home exams, and multiple in-class exams. I have TA's, but still the task of collecting and returning the students' write-up is non-trivial, and if not done well can take significant time away from the class (includin... |
2017/01/03 | 2,140 | 8,550 | <issue_start>username_0: Okay, so I am a math student currently on leave from a graduate program in math and computer science.
I have always been good at coursework. I ace examinations and manage good grades. I can understand and explain concepts well. All my professors have liked me because of all this.
But somehow ... |
2017/01/03 | 2,031 | 7,635 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the best practices for writing a research paper title? I am looking for some general guidelines.
* Does one go with short and sweet?
* Or a bit longer and informative?
* Should one phrase it as a question or rather as a statement?
* Should one use humour and play on words?
* What shou... |
2017/01/03 | 2,008 | 7,580 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you answer a question in your application for research grant, where it asks you 'Plans for publication'?
I plan to publish the results of my research in one of three optional scientific journals, and maybe present the results on a conference at the end of the year. But how should I answ... |
2017/01/04 | 1,071 | 4,108 | <issue_start>username_0: What are good ways to explore/discover literature visually, e.g. a visual interface for Google Scholar? There are a few tools to **explore the citation graph ("which papers cite which papers")**. Some are described here:
* <http://proto-knowledge.blogspot.de/2015/02/tools-to-visualize-connecti... |
2017/01/04 | 2,334 | 9,937 | <issue_start>username_0: If there is an option to submit your paper in either Latex or Word, which format should be given preference? Does it affect the chances of acceptance? My paper relates to computer science & engineering, with a few mathematical formula, diagrams, and tables.<issue_comment>username_1: If both are... |
2017/01/04 | 2,545 | 10,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in a joint teaching/research post-doctoral position at a university that is different than where I obtained my PhD. There may be an opportunity in the future for me to return to my old PhD advisor and be hired on as a post-doc once my tenure is up here. I don't really NEED the jo... |
2017/01/04 | 6,326 | 26,105 | <issue_start>username_0: A recent [question about reducing stress in oral examinations](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/82591/how-to-help-calm-students-anxiety-in-an-oral-exam) asserted that
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2017/01/04 | 841 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a bachelor's degree in chemistry, and feel like I have definitely learned enough to deserve it. However, I have only done laboratory chemistry outside of my courses for a few months my junior year. I have not had any internships or professional chemistry positions. Next year I will be en... |
2017/01/04 | 850 | 3,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate in a nationally prestigious university in a developing country. The university is mainly of engineering departments but also has a rather new economics department. It is my 7th year there and prospects for graduating are unclear. No one has ever graduated from our school (1... |
2017/01/05 | 501 | 1,966 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it acceptable to present the same project at two conferences and list them separately on your CV?
The two conferences are for different audiences (one is for educators and faculty members and the other is for a more interdisciplinary population). This being the case, the project itself will... |
2017/01/05 | 2,154 | 8,938 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc in Europe on a one year contract, where the renewal is not necessarily guaranteed. When I was interviewed, I was told that the his grant was for a year, and whether it'd renew would depend on the results of his next grant application. **After** my mentor hired me and things were c... |
2017/01/05 | 2,091 | 9,126 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is the result of a discussion in [another question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/77461/can-intentionally-omitting-related-work-citations-be-considered-as-misconduct). If I publish an article, solving a problem, or finding relevant data, and subsequently another art... |
2017/01/05 | 1,153 | 4,726 | <issue_start>username_0: About 5 years ago, I completed the 5 year process of completing my EdD at a reputable, large public university. At the time, they did not offer the course of study as a PhD. My faculty were reassuring that the rigor of the degree was on par, just with the Education titling.
Well... with next ... |
2017/01/06 | 1,612 | 6,662 | <issue_start>username_0: **I've been made aware of a situation that blatantly violates the honor code at my institution (also every institution). However it does not involve my lab, and the folks in the relevant lab are not keen to address it in any official capacity. What to do?**
The Situation:
* A graduate student... |
2017/01/06 | 1,491 | 5,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate in the US applying to REUs in mathematics. Every REU I am applying to through MathPrograms has a section where you can choose to fill out your gender/race, along with a message of the form
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2017/01/06 | 558 | 2,365 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to several post-grad programs at Australian Universities. I got an offer from one (University A) very quickly, conditional on completion of my undergraduate degree. It had a lapse date of January 1. During the Christmas break I emailed University A letting them know that I had complet... |
2017/01/06 | 443 | 1,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of writing an application for a PhD scholarship at a British university. The school's system requires a CV (resumé) with attached cover letter, along with a few other documents.
My intended supervisor is someone I've already worked with for my MSc thesis, and he ha... |
2017/01/06 | 2,100 | 9,039 | <issue_start>username_0: Did you ever get a paper accepted by a journal without any comment at all? It has happened to me twice; both times with a very high-standing journal in my field.
I was initially confused, did not know whether to be pleased, or horrified. I then settled for the latter. In my opinion, this is a... |