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2017/11/06 | 819 | 3,029 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow on to [Are citations in abstracts considered bad style?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/4971/are-citations-in-abstracts-considered-bad-style) It is unclear to me how to format the citation. Are citations in the abstract covered by any style guide (APA, MLA, Chicag... |
2017/11/06 | 1,500 | 6,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I derived a minor result on my own, as part of a paper that I'm working on. I recently discovered that this result already exists in the literature.
If I cite the original work it will seem like I simply took it from there, but if I don't it might seem that I omitted a due citation. Is it more... |
2017/11/07 | 529 | 2,215 | <issue_start>username_0: Many universities require that your native language be English or you will have to submit proof of language proficiency.
Usually if you lie and say English is your native language while all other evidence shows otherwise (e.g. country of birth, country of citizenship, university degree langua... |
2017/11/07 | 704 | 2,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I need a point of view of users here regarding doing postdoc in small lab or big lab. I am currently looking for a postdoc position. During my PhD years, I worked in a small lab with inexperienced supervisor as principal investigator. She was a very nice supervisor who is concerned a lot regard... |
2017/11/07 | 1,140 | 4,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering how a proctor of a closed-book exam should approach the case where a student has a tattoo that would double as a cheat sheet. [Maybe they think the math looks cool](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/19596), or they got a nice calligraphy of a textbook passage, or they are just ... |
2017/11/07 | 719 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working in software development and plan to start a part-time masters degree.
I've read in some places that a thesis shouldn't have much code and should use pseudo-code instead. Then on other sites I see thesis that seem to center around a newly developed code base. Then other example thes... |
2017/11/07 | 699 | 2,951 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published an original research paper in what was claimed by Beall's list to be a predatory journal. Considering the way they reviewed my paper, the corrections they gave me, and the many citations from typical research papers, I don't believe that it is predatory, especially since I don'... |
2017/11/07 | 524 | 2,230 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to give a course at my company and I'm looking online for images that I can use in my education material.
Since many of the most interesting images suitable for this education exist in papers published on arXiv, how do I know which of the images found in arXiv papers I can use and w... |
2017/11/07 | 687 | 2,840 | <issue_start>username_0: The inflation rate of tuition in the US has been higher than the general economy's inflation rate for some time, sometimes it is twice as high What can the faculty do to stop/slow this down?<issue_comment>username_1: There are a number of things you can do as an individual faculty member to lim... |
2017/11/08 | 2,688 | 10,848 | <issue_start>username_0: As a former student athlete at the high school level who played football, the academic requirements asked of me were no different than that of my fellow classmates. I never asked for any special treatment and I rarely if ever discussed my athletic activities with my teachers. I would also suspe... |
2017/11/08 | 1,436 | 5,768 | <issue_start>username_0: Okay I'm pretty desperate here.
I'm a PhD student. I had a cosupervisor (Prof Y) that my supervisor (and head of center, Prof X) removed (without consulting me) from my project and assigned (again without consulting me) another cosupervisor (Prof Z). The assigning of cosupervisors to a PhD pro... |
2017/11/08 | 850 | 3,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for faculty positions in multiple countries. For all of the UK positions, it was necessary to fill out an online form, which always asks for my current salary, and often asks for my "expected salary". All the UK job calls I have seen *did state a salary range*.
I find it very unc... |
2017/11/08 | 589 | 2,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my masters thesis on an econometrics topic. It is very closely related to another paper by NW. Since our papers are very closely related, I am using their notation in order to draw comparisons (which I state before introducing my model).
NW motivate their model using known finding... |
2017/11/08 | 845 | 3,214 | <issue_start>username_0: I constantly receive emails from editors asking me to submit papers for their journals.
However, only a handful of them originate from a trustworthy source. The vast majority are just scams — journals with no reputation at all, willing to publish an(y) article for a fee.
My biggest problem w... |
2017/11/08 | 4,546 | 19,526 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a good way to prevent students from writing an answer after you hand back a graded assignment (exam/homework) and claiming that you did not see their answer?
It is clear to me that this particular student even used a different pen for their answer, and I am 100% sure that the answer w... |
2017/11/08 | 2,140 | 9,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a midway PhD candidate, I have finished all of the coursework and the qualifying exam. This my fifth semester (i.e. I'm starting my 3rd year now). Now I feel that, the topic I've selected to work on is not the right one for me. As both my adviser and myself are not experts in that area.
I... |
2017/11/08 | 408 | 1,630 | <issue_start>username_0: A similar question exists [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/choice-of-personal-pronoun-in-single-author-papers) however I don't feel that answers my specific question. Other questions on this topic seem to explain why "we" is primarily used in academic writing, which I un... |
2017/11/08 | 901 | 3,729 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student currently working in a co-op position at a company in my field. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to be the lead author on a paper based on the research I performed here, and I have a couple of questions regarding what I can do with this information.
I wo... |
2017/11/09 | 1,899 | 8,372 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm a few months into my PhD. It's built on top of previous work that has not been published. My supervisors, collaborators, and myself are working on to get this published. Now here's where things get a bit weird for me.
I found some problem with the previous work. Discussed the problem wi... |
2017/11/09 | 3,072 | 12,599 | <issue_start>username_0: I am relatively new to teaching University undergraduate classes in mathematics. One of the harder things I've had to do is to say 'no'. To somehow respectfully deny a student what they're asking for.
For example, very recently, a student has been demanding too many appointments outside of of... |
2017/11/09 | 319 | 1,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fresh PhD and I have job offer of Postdoctoral researcher in world leading university (QS rank 6) and assistant professorship in an average university (QS rank 339).
What is good for long term academic career?<issue_comment>username_1: Well, probably about the "long term carreer" it d... |
2017/11/09 | 691 | 2,965 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper of mine just got accepted to a computer science conference. Due to personal reasons I cannot fly to that conference. I was suggested to ask a friend who flies there to present the paper for me, but I think it may not be a good idea since the friend might be unable to answer questions. S... |
2017/11/09 | 1,815 | 6,779 | <issue_start>username_0: How should I address an email to a professor who hates being called "Professor \_\_\_" or "Dr. \_\_\_\_?" He has made it very clear to students that he prefers to be referred to by his first name in person, but I have been told time and time again that one should be more formal when writing ema... |
2017/11/09 | 344 | 1,236 | <issue_start>username_0: In the medical domain, it frequently happens that papers are written by a pharma company or it's contractors and then given to an academic to publish.
The word "ghostwriter" seems to be appropriate for the person who actually wrote the paper. What's the best word to describe the person who is ... |
2017/11/10 | 955 | 4,248 | <issue_start>username_0: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LGQh2.png)
Forgive the MS paint.
But as someone who often straddles two different domains of research and knowledge, how does one translate the jargon that is commonly found in one field and effectively communica... |
2017/11/10 | 633 | 2,713 | <issue_start>username_0: My field is primarily connected with computer networks. Sometime in 2016, I discovered a vulnerability which at that time was not known (I searched a lot to make sure). I experimented with it and got exciting results. However, I couldn't publish it immediately due to some-other work my prof gav... |
2017/11/10 | 356 | 1,540 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach a course in Computer Science in which research is evolving so rapidly. This is an undergrad course. It is difficult to have a comprehensive set of lecture notes prepared every time during the semester. I teach through blackboard only (and I feel students like that thing about me).
Howe... |
2017/11/10 | 1,861 | 7,330 | <issue_start>username_0: A lecturer for a course I am attending was late for a class, and as they had sent an e-mail a few days before mentioning a different classroom, the class was confused about whether we should go to this classroom or not. I decided to send the lecturer an e-mail to clarify whether the class locat... |
2017/11/10 | 1,006 | 4,166 | <issue_start>username_0: In my university, after passing a viva voce examination, it will take more than 3 months before the university issues an official letter/transcript/certificate to certify that one is officially a PhD holder. Of course, after PhD viva, it will take some time to perform correction as stipulated b... |
2017/11/10 | 591 | 2,571 | <issue_start>username_0: There seems to be a bias, particularly among more established researchers, to only include posters that they presented. There seems to be a trend towards not including (or including as *abstract accepted*) posters where they **are** listed as an author, but someone else presented.
My question... |
2017/11/10 | 426 | 1,704 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago, I had an exam. Some of the questions were to be solved by computer and the results printed out and handed in. I didn't do well on the exam: I didn't solve some of the questions and I didn't do the part where I was supposed to print out the results, so I expected to get an F or ... |
2017/11/11 | 713 | 3,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach in a university. I want to ask whether it is allowed to use slides or tutorials that I downloaded from the internet in my class. I don't make any modifications to the slide, which I want to show in the class room and distribute to my students. If the slides have the author's name on it,... |
2017/11/11 | 4,120 | 16,552 | <issue_start>username_0: (*I am from an engineering background and know very little about liberal arts
and humanity programs, so I apologize in advance if my question sounds condescending or ignorant.*)
I am often puzzled as to how academicians in the humanities (<- corrected) such as philosophy or religious study o... |
2017/11/11 | 1,420 | 6,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had it with my advisor's unethical behavior, demanding people to be removed from papers, removing my cosupervisor without telling me and insinuating that he has "appointed a new one".
What is the best way to break up with him? The PhD school already has a procedure in place, but do you ... |
2017/11/11 | 623 | 2,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I have found an error in a published article. The error lies within the method section.
I would like then to write a correspondence to let people know about this issue and to explain what could have been done correctly.
I tried to look into the journal webpage but it seems they do not publish... |
2017/11/11 | 1,225 | 5,265 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you overcome advisers constantly moving the football / changing their minds?
I write papers after recommendations from my advisers and every time I end up redoing the entire analysis or asking an entirely different question. I feel like <NAME> and Lucy keeps moving the football. Here a... |
2017/11/12 | 1,612 | 6,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask this community for help in finding good strategies for avoiding an aspect of my mindset that I don't much like, which I get when I've been working on a given project for a while - I begin to lose track of how novel and nontrivial the work is, sometimes leading to full-on cri... |
2017/11/12 | 721 | 3,099 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit a manuscript in which I point to some methodological errors that I found in some literature. The error may significantly change part of the results and conclusions if those papers.
I thought I should first contact the authors of those papers to discuss the issue with them... |
2017/11/12 | 631 | 2,620 | <issue_start>username_0: So I have noticed that there are exact solutions to the exact question I found on an assignment sheet for a unit/class that I am currently doing (the source is from another college's publication on their own assignment). My question is that: is my professor allowed to use this particular questi... |
2017/11/12 | 582 | 2,383 | <issue_start>username_0: In a conference with an author rebuttal phase, I received a review from a reviewer (who gave a strong reject) asking to compare my work to a paper which is not even on the same problem as my paper. I firmly believe that this review is biased and the reviewer is either the author of the paper, w... |
2017/11/12 | 1,683 | 7,450 | <issue_start>username_0: For the first time (I am a relatively junior professor), a student has asked me to write a letter of recommendation for him for graduate school application in the US. I was glad to do so, as he is an excellent student who has performed research with me - we have authored a paper together.
On g... |
2017/11/12 | 442 | 1,883 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I add an author after the journal accepted my article but has not yet published it? I’m considering to add a friend later, but I am not sure about it now.<issue_comment>username_1: It's journal dependent, and for a respectable journal, you would probably need to present a good case for it.
... |
2017/11/12 | 1,584 | 6,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student, and recently I was introduced a PhD student in my university's math department.
In a brief interaction with him, he mentioned that he was doing work in Differential Topology, an area which I happen to be self-studying at the moment. I asked him about his research... |
2017/11/13 | 1,770 | 7,937 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a math PhD program, and I feel that my long interest in a particular area of mathematics is discouraged here.
I have an interest in an area of mathematics, but the leading person doing the research at the institution which I am going for PhD is not very approachable. I went to office ... |
2017/11/13 | 557 | 2,256 | <issue_start>username_0: I was studying the website of the Harvard [Graduate School of Arts and Sciences](https://gsas.harvard.edu) ...
Obviously an impressive institution with a broad scope. But I wonder who is in charge of the operation. For example, on the [ABOUT](http://gsas.harvard.edu/about/deans-welcome) page, ... |
2017/11/13 | 698 | 2,551 | <issue_start>username_0: For example,
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> A [1] is a dataset for training the model.
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I have cited once in this sentence.
Then in the second sentence somewhere in my paper,
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> I would like to use A [1] as my experimental dataset.
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Should I cite it again?<issue_comment>username_1: There may be ... |
2017/11/13 | 611 | 2,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I had been working on a project for my masters thesis under a doctoral student, which is eligible for a paper publication. But after finishing more than half of the project, my supervisor suddenly ordered me to start over a new project and told me to stop working on the former work, stating tha... |
2017/11/13 | 692 | 2,893 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing my master's degree in theoretical physics (probably with distinction) and have published a paper.
I'm searching for a Ph.D. position in theoretical physic in Europe, but I can't find any position which I'm passionate about. I think, there will be more opening in 6 month. On the ... |
2017/11/13 | 458 | 2,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working in industry with a pharmaceutical company on a one year contract (front-line sales role). Following this contract, I was hoping to complete my masters of Science in population and public health. If I am no longer affiliated with the company by the time I begin courses, an... |
2017/11/14 | 467 | 1,788 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, I am conducting research in "human attention".
Two papers both use the terminology "attention maps". However, actually one paper refer "attention maps" as "gaze maps" and the other refer "attention maps" as "importance maps". They are both right as "gaze maps" and "importance maps... |
2017/11/14 | 962 | 4,000 | <issue_start>username_0: The journal *Immunity* says on this [webpage](http://www.cell.com/immunity/authors)
"As a matter of publishing ethics, we cannot consider any paper that contains data that have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere."
Why not? What if the two papers analyze rich sources of dat... |
2017/11/15 | 862 | 3,716 | <issue_start>username_0: Who decides what books a department (say, of mathematics, at a public university in the US) shall order for its library? Is there usually a formal process?
I am somewhat surprised that I have found essentially no answer to this on the internet, nor on my library's website.<issue_comment>userna... |
2017/11/15 | 783 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: Academia is highly liberal - which is fine. I don't mind liberals in general. However I voted for Trump.
I had a weird experience recently. I was chatting with some people at a conference at dinner and one older, well established, professor started talking about Trump supporters. He talked ab... |
2017/11/15 | 945 | 4,098 | <issue_start>username_0: The professor I do research with often puts me down for making mistakes and frequently calls me an idiot. I don't know the appropriate way to respond. I cannot just *leave*, since I still want to go to grad school. But this is severely affecting my mental health, and I have been suicidal recent... |
2017/11/15 | 698 | 3,117 | <issue_start>username_0: I invited a coworker with shared expertise to collaborate on/coauthor a paper (both postdocs). The result was ultimately much better due to this input. He also had an idea for an alternative approach to 'my problem', and published a second paper with me as coauthor. While this is beneficial in ... |
2017/11/15 | 868 | 3,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I am developing some open source software for use in research.
I intend to publish a paper about it.
(It is marginally novel, and there is a venue I have in mind that accepts such.)
One piece of existing code I would like to derive from to make my tool,
is released under a problematic [crayon ... |
2017/11/15 | 964 | 3,596 | <issue_start>username_0: Well, I sent a message to a professor asking for an opportunity in its research group aiming to start my Ph.D. (in a major university, top 25 in the world). I sent as attached files my résumé, my research papers as usual on this kind of messages (but I sent the mail with no hope to be answered)... |
2017/11/15 | 1,160 | 4,869 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had a little corollary sitting around a while now. It is closely related to a major theorem in my area. Its statement is easy to understand (and rather interesting/amusing on the surface of it) and it's proof can be written in a couple of paragraphs.
I thought it had potential to be the ... |
2017/11/16 | 988 | 4,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not sure that Academia is the right place to post this, as it would probably be better suited for Law.se.
I am a student in Italy. My university requires unrestricted access to my personal computer for an afternoon to install a certain software. I obviously have security concerns, so I ha... |
2017/11/16 | 1,113 | 4,742 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm preparing my thesis presentation and I'm trying to address a situation in which the general case has no known solution and is an open, very hard to solve, problem. It involves non-isolated singularities, so, if you're a mathematician, you could have an idea regarding this kind of difficulty... |
2017/11/16 | 590 | 2,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a paper for a top-ranked journal in robotics. The main results of the paper are about control and not specifically robotics. I am aware that robotics is a multidisciplinary subject which has also a ton of control in it but the problem here is the following. The paper is, mathemat... |
2017/11/16 | 1,429 | 5,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 28 year old Ph.D. student in CS (databases), in my first year of study - I have completed a research-based Master's program and published a couple of papers as well.
I love research, and my current school + supervisor. However, I'm under severe financial pressures, and the stipend isn't... |
2017/11/16 | 822 | 3,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started a 3-4 year Post-Doc position in Department A, to work on a topic on the border between two fields on which they also work in Department B.
In some European countries the usual situation is to do a Habilitation in A.
However, theoretically it is also possible to get payed by de... |
2017/11/16 | 823 | 3,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard many times that it's getting harder and harder each year to find a place in academia for scientists. Now I'm on the hunt of a post-doc and the "what about the future?" question arises.
So, by looking at mathjobs.org, I really get the impression there are lots of jobs! But after furt... |
2017/11/16 | 614 | 2,345 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the right format for in-prep publication on CV? I saw on another post that the format should be something like
[My name], & Author, ([year]). [Title of article].
But the problem is that the paper has a few dozen co-authors and my name will come somewhere closer to the end of the list. ... |
2017/11/17 | 308 | 1,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my paper in one of the Elsevier journals. It was under review, and now it is decision pending for more than 15 days. Does it mean that the paper will be rejected?<issue_comment>username_1: "Decision pending" means that the decision... is pending. They haven't decided yet.
Ther... |
2017/11/17 | 3,746 | 15,764 | <issue_start>username_0: There has been a lot of press about how the new tax proposals currently being considered by Congress could hurt grad students because one of the plans would treat remitted tuition as taxable income.
I understand why this would be bad -- grad students who receive tuition remission would have to... |
2017/11/17 | 407 | 1,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physics PhD student in Germany. During my PhD I got two children, and as a mother, I had to give major part of my time to my children. I started in April 2012, and I will finish in spring 2018. Is this too long time to get a postdoc position afterwards?<issue_comment>username_1: In Germa... |
2017/11/17 | 433 | 1,762 | <issue_start>username_0: I approached my internship advisor for an LOR while applying to Masters. She said she would not be able to provide a strong one but a good one based on an internship that lasted for two months. I approached her because she holds a PhD from a good university in the USA and she's published papers... |
2017/11/17 | 399 | 1,555 | <issue_start>username_0: When asking for an opportunity to do a PhD with a professor at a US university, he replied:
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> Excellent background. Unfortunately, I do not have funding to support
> new students. Good luck!
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Now I want to tell him:
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> Thank you for your time and consideration. Please keep me i... |
2017/11/17 | 414 | 1,677 | <issue_start>username_0: Abstract was selected for 'oral abstracts' competition, in a shortlist of 5 presenters. I was announced winner at the end of the competition. Following the event I have been emailed to pass on my bank details as the beneficiary of the £1500 prize. My co-authors are all seniors/co-supervisors. W... |
2017/11/17 | 577 | 2,495 | <issue_start>username_0: About 3 years ago, when I was finishing my Master's, I applied for a PhD position in a Canadian university. Everything went well and the professor provided a letter of reference to the members of admission committee indicating his acceptance to be my supervisor and fully fund my research (he se... |
2017/11/18 | 1,777 | 7,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I read many papers and try to present some of them at a reading group of some sort in my department (these are all quite informal). Both my most recent talks were what I consider quite bad, and I really want suggestions to get better.
I only choose to present papers that I understand reasonab... |
2017/11/18 | 898 | 3,911 | <issue_start>username_0: It is often asked whether students should be encouraged to address their instructors by their first or last name. My question is the opposite.
I teach at a large US university but I have not grown up here. Most students address me by my last name or by 'Professor', which seems to be the tradit... |
2017/11/18 | 1,473 | 6,352 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science, a large portion of people develop algorithms, and demonstrate their effectiveness by running experiments to compare with other existing approaches in their research papers. In these experiments, as far as I know, there are two possible ways to purposely hide data:
* Ashley... |
2017/11/18 | 2,687 | 11,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working in education but also looking for job prospects in more technical/mathematical fields. I signed up to a STEM job site and I am not sure how to give a good response to the question "Could you tell me about the circumstances behind you exiting your PhD?"
Basically, I quit... |
2017/11/19 | 892 | 3,895 | <issue_start>username_0: I assume this is nearly impossible in a university with separate math and computer-science departments, due to the way funding works (correct me if I'm wrong). However, I've heard that some small universities have joint mathematics and computer-science departments. In such a case, is it possibl... |
2017/11/19 | 453 | 2,216 | <issue_start>username_0: Most journals during second revision try to send the articles to reviewers who had reviewed the article before. But, if in case one such reviewer responds with a message that he cannot review the article this time, usually a new reviewer is requested to review the article.
My question is will... |
2017/11/20 | 862 | 3,391 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my PhD a few months back after completing a MSc. I've been asked for a CV but I don't know what to put in it, and various templates are hard to use because:
* I don't have any papers nor have I reviewed anything
* I haven't been to any conferences
* I haven't received any compet... |
2017/11/20 | 504 | 2,101 | <issue_start>username_0: [This is a clarification question on whether I should do this or not]
Should I add Dr., Engg. like salutation in front of my name in my resume. For example, if <NAME> passed BSc in Mechanical Engineering, should he write Engineer <NAME> in his resume or he should write only <NAME>?<issue_comm... |
2017/11/20 | 236 | 1,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for an assisstant professor position, and asked to provide a CV, as well as a separate list of publications. Should I still keep a "publications" section in the CV, or refer to the separate list by writing something like "see enclosed list of publications"?<issue_comment>username_... |
2017/11/21 | 582 | 2,285 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper that I need to refer to reasonably often has in its arXiv version the authors listed alphabetically by surname (as is the custom in mathematics). The published version lists the authors in a different order, having moved the last author to second place. The last author in the published ... |
2017/11/21 | 518 | 2,101 | <issue_start>username_0: My roomie has recently been applying for PhD programmes. He's particularly interested in the one led by prof X, so the other day he sent an email presenting his research experiences and showing his interest in prof X's research. He got a very positive reply from prof X today:
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> Hi XXX, Yes ... |
2017/11/21 | 1,099 | 4,752 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. I try to be an active peer-reviewer but on average it takes a few hours to review a manuscript (reading, some searches in the literature, checking some relevant reference, and finally writing the report).
I review 2-3 papers per month and I need to spe... |
2017/11/21 | 1,323 | 5,289 | <issue_start>username_0: Specifically, in a scholarly paper on philosophy of math I want to mention Mo Yan’s novel *Red Sorghum Clan*. It is just as an example of literature, not quoted and not used for any specific purpose.
Suppose I were to say:
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> Think of any famous play, say Shakespeare’s *Macbeth*.
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2017/11/21 | 727 | 3,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I failed my written PhD qualifying exam twice in Computer Science from a middle-ranked university. Instead of kicking me out, I can get a terminal master's degree. Please note that this will be my second master's degree.
Now I am planning to re-apply to PhD programs at other Universities. My ... |
2017/11/22 | 1,489 | 6,069 | <issue_start>username_0: My abstracts starts with three specific questions that my proposed research will answer. But when my friend saw this, he said: "I will never start an abstract with questions, and I will never read this paper if it starts with questions."
Is it wrong to start your abstract with a question sente... |
2017/11/22 | 724 | 3,029 | <issue_start>username_0: At my school, I can request an official transcript to be emailed to me, and it comes addressed to me at the top, with a COPY watermark all over it. Since this doesn't go directly to the graduate school, would this count as an unofficial transcript? It contains the classes taken, my grades and s... |
2017/11/22 | 1,341 | 5,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a young undergraduate student currently finishing my next-to-last year as a math bachelor. I plan to apply for a Masters as soon as I finish, and I look forward to a job as an academic researcher.
I'm also deeply involved with the culture of body modification, hosting myself a few tattoos,... |
2017/11/22 | 830 | 3,408 | <issue_start>username_0: I’ve just read a paper in which a previous paper of mine has been cited. The line in which the citation happens is something like:
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However, in my paper, I never mention technique X.
Should... |
2017/11/23 | 723 | 2,883 | <issue_start>username_0: This may be a sensitive subject given the subject matter.
But I have currently experiencing [**significant writers’ block**](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7656/resources-on-how-to-overcome-writers-block-especially-for-non-native-english-s) when it comes to writing my statement ... |
2017/11/23 | 832 | 3,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my first paper for a conference about an issue enquired just by think tank, investigative journalism, ONG and United Nation Agencies but not directly from academic research.
So, is it correct to present that paper with only collateral academic writing?<issue_comment>username_1: If ... |
2017/11/23 | 509 | 2,140 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written an email to a professor asking him for a letter of recommendation. It's been almost a week and he didn't answer back.
I have already seen questions on this topic here, saying that when a professor doesn't answer is probably because he forgot or he overlooked it. However my quest... |
2017/11/23 | 523 | 2,100 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes a paper consists of lots of math equations which are too long so that they will look terrible in a two-column format. I was wondering:
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> Is is possible or even reasonable to ask the editor of a two-column journal to publish the **whole** paper in one column format due to containin... |
2017/11/24 | 918 | 3,969 | <issue_start>username_0: By bottom-line answers, I literally mean the answers on the bottom line of a solution.
So if the question requires two pages of math with the final answer that x=5, all I'm interested in is the x=5 part.
In other words, I just want to know whether I've got the correct numerical answer. I'm ... |
2017/11/24 | 438 | 1,904 | <issue_start>username_0: We (professors + TAs) are reporting a few students for cheating on their midterms to the head of undergraduate studies. We had been monitoring their activities pretty closely, since we noticed they had been cheating throughout the semester on their weekly quizzes but felt that evidence was not ... |
2017/11/24 | 804 | 2,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a hyphenated surname, namely *Kinara-Williams.* I intend to be published in the future when I graduate and during/after my PhD.
But Kinara-Williams seems like a mouthful to cite. After reading other threads, it appears pseudonyms are frowned upon in the scientific/academic community; so... |
2017/11/24 | 518 | 2,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I research the aerodynamics of an air vehicle. I use commercial fluid-dynamics software (we have a commercial license). However, I noticed that most papers dealing similar research use homemade software and write about it in the methods section of their papers.
Should I describe how I operate... |
2017/11/24 | 2,464 | 10,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the final stages of my PhD and have been applying for postdocs for the last six months. Recently, I heard back from the job I applied for, we had a phone interview and he was very happy with my experience and skills. In fact he was looking for a new postdoc with the same experience what... |
2017/11/25 | 2,751 | 11,730 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying to grad school to do a PhD in physics in the United States. I would really like to mention in the personal history statement/diversity statement essays: 1) the work I did in my undergrad to create a safe, informal community for other LGBTQ students in my department and 2)... |