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Sad about plagiarised papers Do you also get sad when your students hand in plagiarised papers? Or is it just me? | 5c5ef9a2045d8efe3277e869b58e6c06a40ccfbeb12a889e08caca5fba84410a | [
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"content": "When I was still teaching, I learned there were lots of different reasons why students plagiarized papers - so I learned to talk to the student and figure out what was going on. (Not necessarily take what they say as face value...but at least try to figure it out.) Many of them were just lazy, or they waited until the last minute to write the paper so they just copied and pasted thinking I wouldn't figure it out. Whatever, 0. With a few, I learned they were so scared of writing - or had gotten such bad marks on their writing in the past - that they simply did not know what else to do besides plagiarize. This isn't an excuse for it, and there's heavy overlap with these kids and the ones in the first group, but in a few cases the student genuinely wanted to learn how to write better (or were at least interested when I offered to help them learn how to write). Some simply did not see the point of learning how to write, because they didn't see the overlap between writing a paper analyzing a novel or exploring a research topic and writing emails at work or other kinds of business communication. While those students were also largely in the first group, it *did* make me modify my approach a little when I taught writing - I drew more parallels between the types of assignments I gave and 'real work' and also gave a wider variety of assignments. This improved interest at least with the serious kids. Then there were the rare one or two who genuinely didn't know they weren't supposed to do that. These are not the kids who turned in someone else's paper or copied large unattributed sections from Wikipedia - these were the kids who would copy like four lines and then cite it, thinking that put them in the clear, but they would do it all throughout the paper. Often it was because they'd gotten poor writing instruction in the past; I once had a social studies teacher in middle or high school who taught some really poor writing skills that would engender this type of behavior (I distinctly remember her telling us that a paper should be mostly quotes with citations behind them. Not just that you should cite your work - that the bulk of a paper, like 80%, should be literal quotes from other works).",
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"content": "Very. What makes it worse is that administration won’t help or support me when bring forward disciplinary action. 🙄",
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"content": "When I was still teaching, I learned there were lots of different reasons why students plagiarized papers - so I learned to talk to the student and figure out what was going on. (Not necessarily take what they say as face value...but at least try to figure it out.) Many of them were just lazy, or they waited until the last minute to write the paper so they just copied and pasted thinking I wouldn't figure it out. Whatever, 0. With a few, I learned they were so scared of writing - or had gotten such bad marks on their writing in the past - that they simply did not know what else to do besides plagiarize. This isn't an excuse for it, and there's heavy overlap with these kids and the ones in the first group, but in a few cases the student genuinely wanted to learn how to write better (or were at least interested when I offered to help them learn how to write). Some simply did not see the point of learning how to write, because they didn't see the overlap between writing a paper analyzing a novel or exploring a research topic and writing emails at work or other kinds of business communication. While those students were also largely in the first group, it *did* make me modify my approach a little when I taught writing - I drew more parallels between the types of assignments I gave and 'real work' and also gave a wider variety of assignments. This improved interest at least with the serious kids. Then there were the rare one or two who genuinely didn't know they weren't supposed to do that. These are not the kids who turned in someone else's paper or copied large unattributed sections from Wikipedia - these were the kids who would copy like four lines and then cite it, thinking that put them in the clear, but they would do it all throughout the paper. Often it was because they'd gotten poor writing instruction in the past; I once had a social studies teacher in middle or high school who taught some really poor writing skills that would engender this type of behavior (I distinctly remember her telling us that a paper should be mostly quotes with citations behind them. Not just that you should cite your work - that the bulk of a paper, like 80%, should be literal quotes from other works).",
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Sad about plagiarised papers Do you also get sad when your students hand in plagiarised papers? Or is it just me? | 5c5ef9a2045d8efe3277e869b58e6c06a40ccfbeb12a889e08caca5fba84410a | [
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Sad about plagiarised papers Do you also get sad when your students hand in plagiarised papers? Or is it just me? | 5c5ef9a2045d8efe3277e869b58e6c06a40ccfbeb12a889e08caca5fba84410a | [
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"content": "We'd get it in physics sometimes, and folks would copy entire lab reports or even forge their quizzes. On the one hand, I get it... physics is hard and they certainly weren't held to the same standard of mathematical rigor in some of their other courses. If you're a botany major, maybe you shouldn't need physics... That said, in most cases schools will not be digging into why you got a C in intro-level physics, and in some cases will even realize it's a tough course and not hassle you about it. The worst were the med school wannabes, because they 'had to get an A' or risk crushing mom and dad's hopes of having a doctor in the family. I empathize, but when one guy is turning in pristine work and gets 10/10 on every quiz and you still can calculate stuff from week 2, I can't \"just give you an A\" or let you copy from your group mates.",
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"content": "We'd get it in physics sometimes, and folks would copy entire lab reports or even forge their quizzes. On the one hand, I get it... physics is hard and they certainly weren't held to the same standard of mathematical rigor in some of their other courses. If you're a botany major, maybe you shouldn't need physics... That said, in most cases schools will not be digging into why you got a C in intro-level physics, and in some cases will even realize it's a tough course and not hassle you about it. The worst were the med school wannabes, because they 'had to get an A' or risk crushing mom and dad's hopes of having a doctor in the family. I empathize, but when one guy is turning in pristine work and gets 10/10 on every quiz and you still can calculate stuff from week 2, I can't \"just give you an A\" or let you copy from your group mates.",
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Sad about plagiarised papers Do you also get sad when your students hand in plagiarised papers? Or is it just me? | 5c5ef9a2045d8efe3277e869b58e6c06a40ccfbeb12a889e08caca5fba84410a | [
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"content": "Very. What makes it worse is that administration won’t help or support me when bring forward disciplinary action. 🙄",
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"content": "nah not sad. annoyed/angry first of all for wasting time and secondly potentially ruining the reputation of the university by trying to hand in plagiarised theses I had one master student who asked me for a thesis idea to do together. It was actually a really nice topic - during the thesis he was quite lazy in terms of working but when he handed in a plagairised thesis, copied from one of my good friends in another university, he failed. Ended up redoing the theme with another, way more motivated student, and the results were out standing.",
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"content": "First day of class I tell my students “it hurts my feelings when you cheat”",
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"content": "It infuriates me. It's very, very easy to catch, and the consequences are serious. I get that students get desperate, but there is no occasion when plagiarism is worth it. If they are struggling to complete a paper, they should talk to someone.",
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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"content": "Go for it. There's usually no requirement that you have a current university affiliation in order to present at a conference. It's not extremely common for a variety of reasons, but people do present papers and publish as \"independent scholars\".",
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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"content": "This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular \"no-longer-a-student\" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, \"Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome.\"",
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"content": "On a side note how do you find conferences to attend?",
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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"content": "Why should that not be possible? From the perspective of the organizers, every submission is a good thing.",
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This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular "no-longer-a-student" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, "Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome." | abb7a5859d853d123a82f45fb934a275a8232cc9b0bc0e382931e4353937cb0e | [
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"content": "This might sound really stupid, but can I still submit abstracts to conferences call for papers after graduating and no longer being a graduate student? Please forgive me if this is the wrong space to post this. I finished my MA degree a few years ago, and I have been doing work unrelated to my degree since. Today my former second reader professor forwarded me a call for papers for a special conference about a very specific niche, on which I wrote my MA thesis. I really want to be a part of this conference, but I only submitted and presented papers while I was a student, and I no longer belong to an organization or school. Is it allowed for a regular \"no-longer-a-student\" person to participate? Will they welcome my submission? The call for papers said, \"Early career scholars and graduate students are very welcome.\"",
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"content": "Yes you can. There might be some conferences intended for students only, but in general especially larger conferences the abstracts are submitted from a variety of folks: researchers, students, organizations, etc.",
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How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome! | 13d9beaa78713819f584e9537752b456c2044987a73e622917e5043bc22f252e | [
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"content": "How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome!",
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"content": "How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome!",
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"content": "Try to catch up on the recent literature on that topic. You'll quickly recognize gaps in the knowledge, sometimes they're even pointed out directly by the authors 'xyz is currently understudied', 'this is not yet well understood', 'more research is needed on this'",
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome! | 13d9beaa78713819f584e9537752b456c2044987a73e622917e5043bc22f252e | [
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"content": "How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome!",
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"content": "Talk to your peers and mentor about it a lot! You don’t need a perfect idea when you start (or even when you finish) just a good one. And then work to make it better and better as you go.",
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"role": "user"
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"content": "How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome!",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"content": "How do I come up with a research topic for my PhD? I want to start a PhD but I am having trouble with coming up with a research proposal. I have a vague idea about what I want my research to be about but I can't come up with a concrete research topic. All suggestions are welcome!",
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"content": "Find the boundaries of your current field of interest. Find what lies beyond those boundaries. Pick one of those topics. Current (2020) *good* long reviews are very helpful. Find one from a giant in your field and dig into a nice 10-90 page review. They’ll point out what’s missing or elude to it.",
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"role": "user"
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"role": "user"
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"content": "I always found review current dissertations a great way to understand what research exist out there and were the gaps are.",
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"content": "Hello there! Research is a matter of momentum (or inertia if you will), topics will come to you by themselves while you keep reading literature. You can't find a topic by sitting on a desk and asking yourself what to write. If you ask your mentor, you'll probably end up with a topic you aren't really curious about (and believe me, curiosity is very important for a PHD thesis!). Think about a general topic in your area, even an abstract one. Start to read without a real purpose, just read what you want to read. If something catches your attention, go deeper. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this and you'll have *more than one* topic in no time and these will not be just any topics, these will be the ones that keep you interested! Edit: Thanks for the hug! :)",
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"content": "In the same boat, friend. The process I have followed is: 1) Identify field and sub-field (and maybe sub-sub-field) of interest. 2) Identify giants in said field. 3) Read their stuff and see what they are saying would be good places to research. 4) Choose directions and create several different questions and ideas to pursue. 5) Develop logical next step in this area. 6) From that step, considering your resources, what is an aspect that you could take on?",
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"content": "There are many great opinions, but I will tell you what I did. I am from a social science background, and my research is around the social institution of marriage and family, and the role of women in those. I did my M.Phil on a topic of my interest, on a fairly new topic that was not explored well in my country. Had some great insights and started reading more on that. For my Ph.D. (which was postponed due to Covid) whatever vague idea I had, I just kept writing it down. Then did a review of literature on those broad areas. Started finding papers around that and then Professors who were working on similar lines in their countries. (Approached one of the professors who agreed to supervise me in the UK meanwhile). Read about their work and it kept getting clear what I wanted to do, something which has potential, interests me and I can work enthusiastically on it for a few years. Most importantly that you can have easy access to participants for your research too. Also, don't hurry. It took me seven months from the first vague idea to my final research proposal. You will get there. All the best.",
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"content": "There are many great opinions, but I will tell you what I did. I am from a social science background, and my research is around the social institution of marriage and family, and the role of women in those. I did my M.Phil on a topic of my interest, on a fairly new topic that was not explored well in my country. Had some great insights and started reading more on that. For my Ph.D. (which was postponed due to Covid) whatever vague idea I had, I just kept writing it down. Then did a review of literature on those broad areas. Started finding papers around that and then Professors who were working on similar lines in their countries. (Approached one of the professors who agreed to supervise me in the UK meanwhile). Read about their work and it kept getting clear what I wanted to do, something which has potential, interests me and I can work enthusiastically on it for a few years. Most importantly that you can have easy access to participants for your research too. Also, don't hurry. It took me seven months from the first vague idea to my final research proposal. You will get there. All the best.",
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"content": "I always found review current dissertations a great way to understand what research exist out there and were the gaps are.",
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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"content": "it’s quite bad because hiring tends to be within traditional disciplinary fields. Maybe you are the only person out there doing X and Y together: the trouble is that hiring committees from Dept X and Dept Y may not think you are a good enough fit for them.",
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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"content": "How bad is it to be a \"Jack of all trades\" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this \"project C\" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a \"Jack of all trades\" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a \"generalist\"? What would you suggest?",
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"content": "The part I don't get is how knowledge in A, B and C would make you the jack of all trades. More likely, you will be perceived as an individual who has some expertise in three particular topics. Three topics still seems like a good number to develop a reasonable level of expertise in all of them. I would be more suspicious if your number of topics rises to 5 and more (as an early-career researcher).",
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"content": "Interdisciplinary is highly regarded in many universities. However it sounds like you are staying within your discipline. I would say that having a wide ranging publication record is an advantage for getting and keeping academic jobs as it shows you can teach and research more things than someone with a narrower focus would; this means that whilst you could get asked to teach disparate things you can also go after many different opportunities",
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"content": "From my experience, it depends on the type institution you are at. When I was at a top tier medical school, laser focus seemed to absolutely be the expectation. When I was at a top tier R1, a strong focus was important and the most often reason for doing something different was a unique grant opportunity. When I was at a lower tier R1, it really seemed you just needed to stay in a theme, once again, making deviations due to grants or collaborative opportunities. At my regional university, it is nice if you have some overall conceptual framework, but research can really swing due to funding, collaborations, or just trying to come up with something that can be done with limited resources. And when I was at a SLAC, any publication seemed to be fine, related or not. Granted, my experiences may not generalize since I really only have n=1 examples of each type of school.",
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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"content": "it’s quite bad because hiring tends to be within traditional disciplinary fields. Maybe you are the only person out there doing X and Y together: the trouble is that hiring committees from Dept X and Dept Y may not think you are a good enough fit for them.",
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Hey! While I think I'm doing relatively OK in terms of the sheer number of publications, something that's been bugging me lately is the fact that my publication are far from being concentrated around one topic (or even area within the discipline). Due to the fact that my country has a somewhat messy academic system, I found myself working on project A (one area within my discipline) and project B (another area within my discipline) for financial reasons, while trying to conduct my own PhD-thesis related research (let's call this "project C" - again, another area within my discipline). The situation becomes even more complicated because of additional random collaborations and because I also work on some extra stuff with my academic advisor (this stuff is a bit closer to my PhD-thesis than other projects). So ... How bad is it to be a "Jack of all trades" in academia? Does it look a bit better if you are only the first author of publications that are close to your area of interest (and a middle author on other publications)? Can it even be advantageous to be a "generalist"? What would you suggest? | 7ecff60ddd89fc74441c22e82ba0677331d06b92f4d5732d7ceaf5f4e2af3543 | [
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"content": "Honestly. There are so many institutional incentives to just find and pursue a really niche and increasingly vanishing subject area, that I don't see how people find this fulfilling over the long run. That's why you hear people talking about \"research streams.\" It's far better, IMO, to be the kind of person who reads broadly and then finds specific areas of arbitrage: one area might have a method or idea or framework that can substantially develop another. In that way, you're kind of a translator of sorts and really a superhero in my mind. You create new opportunities rather than just foreclosing on existing research opportunities.",
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Can I just vent about the whole recommendation letter system based on invitation? This is not about the US, as I'm based in Europe. I'm trying to re-enter the academic world after about six years, I would really like to do a master's degree in a certain field and I need recommendation letters. I get that. I've contacted my thesis supervisor from my old university, who luckily remembers me or at least can get a pretty good idea of what kind of student I was from my grades. I've had some relevant professional experience in these years, so I've contacted one of the places where I've worked to get an updated recommendation letter - I already had one, but God forbid it's older than one year, so I had to contact them to get another letter with exactly the same content but a more recent date. Which is silly. They are busy people, and it took me about a month to get this letter. Now I would like to send more than one application in case I don't make it into the one I'm interested in, but as it turns out some universities have a recommendation letter system where you have to *invite* your recommenders to a platform and they have to submit the recommendation themselves. Yeah, sure. Like, who has the time to do that? Certainly not the organisation that sent me this updated recommendation letter after a month. I don't feel comfortable asking for this, and I honestly think it's ridiculous. Does this whole system work this way because I'm not supposed to know what they say about me? I know they are going to be positive recommendations, otherwise I wouldn't submit them. And it's already not that easy to get a recommendation letter in countries where it's not a thing - like I had to explain to them what it was and I almost had to write it myself, so anything that needed more effort would definitely be a no. I feel like I'm cut out from applying to certain universities because of this. Already asking a professor I haven't had contacts with in six years feels weird, since I do have her letter and I could just submit it anytime. But no, *she* has to do it or it's not valid. If I wanted to send three applications, just to make sure I make it into one, should I ask her to do this three times? It honestly feels like bullshit. Sorry for the rant, but I needed to get it out. | bd2e7b2220f1b38063c90b559f99eb1cd48dc7e1703388c8930d904a512d4b69 | [
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"content": "I have no advice for you but just wanted to chime in that that does suck and I agree with you it's not a good system.",
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"content": "All went well for me. Had a supportive advisor, a great stipend, finished in time, had fun and got a good postdoc afterwards. Went to a bunch of conferences with financial support either from the university or from being invited, published some papers during my PhD, still have several half finished papers left. I did my PhD in history at a university in Central Europe.",
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"content": "None for me! Had a great time in grad school living in a fun city and publishing lots of high profile papers. It all went very well.",
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"content": "I had a very enjoyable PhD experience in Canada. Finished my courses and comprehensive exams at the end of year 1, defended my proposal in the middle of year 2. Finished data collection and cleaning by middle of year 3, and finished just under 4 years. My PhD was in health sciences, and I was working as an epidemiologist 75% FTE at a hospital as well through the whole time (used my holidays for comps and proposal defence). My work paid for my PhD as well. I used my work data for my PhD research so that was probably a huge contributing factor to why it was easy. I also did my thesis through 3 articles which meant I do don't have a giant thesis to deal with. Got 3 papers published at the end of my PhD, did a postdoc, and now I'm 2nd year into a tenure track job in a medical science department.",
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Has anyone here NOT had significant issues completing their PhD? Genuinely curious how many individuals here didn't face significant issues with advisors, cohorts, labs, course failures, mental health, etc. I've noticed the majority of posts speaking negatively about all facets of pursuing a PhD and honestly, I want to hear the positive parts for once. | 7f3a69f32857351de2dcc37080514c1b25a4879bda09e4d3b3ac54fd5f276306 | [
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"content": "So far is going great for me as well! One year away from finishing. Have been working some part-time jobs and learning to fly on the side as well and have been managing time quite well. However, have no paper yet published, unfortunately :( Been rejected 5 times though! Woop Woop! I am in the UK, Ph.D. Management for reference. I would say it depends on how supportive the supervisor(s) are, and whether the grad community is friendly or not. Good Luck!",
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"content": "So far is going great for me as well! One year away from finishing. Have been working some part-time jobs and learning to fly on the side as well and have been managing time quite well. However, have no paper yet published, unfortunately :( Been rejected 5 times though! Woop Woop! I am in the UK, Ph.D. Management for reference. I would say it depends on how supportive the supervisor(s) are, and whether the grad community is friendly or not. Good Luck!",
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"content": "Never ran out of money from stipend, enjoyed grad school and reading / thinking for a living, felt like I received appropriate levels of support and feedback from faculty. My impression is that a lot of people who are happy in grad school would be happy in almost any program, and that a lot of people who are unhappy would be unhappy in almost any program.",
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"content": "Went well for me as well. Great advisor, I am in math, so no lab. Had a big scholarship. All a PhD student could possibly want.",
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"content": "Well, I'm not done yet, the path has been hard work and pretty exhausting, and other than some minor argument with a staff member at my lab, I've had a fantastic time! Loving my time as a PhD student. Perhaps it's because I'm an older student that worked for 10 years before coming to academia, I guess it always felt like a vacation from \"real life\". I will say though, that now that I'm approaching the end of my PhD journey, I'm starting to feel anxious about the future, but I guess that's normal.",
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"content": "It’s been a reasonable few years, but mine was issue-free - I really enjoyed it. Computer science with a decent crossover into physics. Had a very supportive advisor, a fantastic lab/colleague culture and a well-defined, well-funded project. Got 4 decent publications and landed a job a few months before graduating. I think the short timescales required by UK PhDs focus advisors into being a bit more hands-on and proactive. Definitely not all, of course, but the rate of horror stories seems far lower. The system itself is designed with some pretty substantial progress requirements as hurdles, to weed out weaker or less motivated students and push them into an MPhil within a year or two if necessary, rather than let them struggle on for longer than is fair to anyone. On average, a PhD here is completed in 4 years (no taught component, only research) - but I find the timescale focuses minds towards productivity... there’s not so much of the stereotype of students spending entire weeks on social media.",
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"content": "I feel like I have many, but the *worst* would have to be the professor who stated, \"Well there wasn't any culture in Canada before the settlers arrived,\" and refused to back down when the First Nations were brought up.",
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"content": "I feel like I have many, but the *worst* would have to be the professor who stated, \"Well there wasn't any culture in Canada before the settlers arrived,\" and refused to back down when the First Nations were brought up.",
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"content": "Not something I \"heard\" but a couple of our math professors, including the dean, were quite heavily insulting and attacking each other via mass email lists that were sent to all grad students and all faculty staff. It was pretty infantile, honestly, and not worthy of their positions. If they have beef with each other they should carry those fights out in private \\- in fact many people asked them in the email list publicly to do it in private and they explicitly refused to do so.",
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