Resources for Technical Reading and Writing
Resources for Technical Reading and Writing
On Reading
- S. Keshav. 2007. How to read a paper. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 37, 3 (July 2007), 83-84. DOI=10.1145/1273445.1273458 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273445.1273458
- Michael Mitzenmacher, How to read a research paper
- Jason Eisner, How to Read a Technical Paper, 2009.
- Elisabetath Pain, How to (seriously) read a scientific paper, Science Magazine Online, Mar. 21, 2016
On Writing
- Gopen, George D., and Judith A. Swan. " The science of scientific writing." American Scientist (1990): 550-558.
- Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The craft of research. University of Chicago press, 2009.
- Williams, Joseph M. "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing & Publishing)." (1995).
- Strunk, William. The elements of style. Penguin, 2007.
- Pullum, Geoffrey K. "50 years of stupid grammar advice." The Chronicle of Higher Education 55 (2009): 32.
- A Half-Century Of " Stupid Grammar Advice", NPR
- Lingua Franca, Language and Writing in Academe, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), Purdue University
- The New York Times' After Deadline blog, The New York Times
- Some posts at Times Insider, The New York Times
- Common Errors in Student Research Papers, Resources for Introductory & Intermedia Level Laboratory Courses, Rice University
- Li, Victor OK. "Hints on writing technical papers and making presentations" . IEEE Transactions on Education, 42, no. 2 (1999): 134-137.
- Gastel, Barbara, and Robert A. Day. How to write and publish a scientific paper. ABC-CLIO, 2016.
- Introduction to College Writing Series - Caltech
On Graphing and Information Visualization
- Cleveland, William S. Visualizing data. Hobart Press, 1993.
- Cleveland, William S. The elements of graphing data. Monterey, CA: Wadsworth Advanced Books and Software, 1985.
- Tufte, Edward R., and P. R. Graves-Morris. The visual display of quantitative information. Vol. 2, no. 9. Cheshire, CT: Graphics press, 1983.
- Young, Forrest W., Pedro M. Valero-Mora, and Michael Friendly. Visual statistics: seeing data with dynamic interactive graphics. Vol. 914. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
On Bibliography and Citation
Tools
- Zotero helps users collect, organize, cite, and share research resources.
- CiteUlike is a web service that allows users to save, cite, and share citations to academic papers.
- Google Scholar can export citations in a few styles, such as, MLA, APA, and Chicago and to a few bibliography management software, such as, BibTex, EndNode, RefMan, and RefWorks.
- University of Wisconsin's Writer's Handbook
- Murdoch University's IEEE Citation Style Guide
On Technical Presentations
- Zobel, Justin. Writing for Computer Science. 3rd Ed. Springer, 2015.
- Reynolds, Garr. Presentation Zen: Simple ideas on presentation design and delivery. New Riders, 2011.
- Heath, Chip, and Dan Heath. Made to stick: Why some ideas survive and others die. Random House, 2007.
- The Reading Skills class, offered by the Computer Laboratory, the University of Cambridge
On Research Method
- Introduction to the Scientific Method, by Prof. Frank L. H. Wolfs, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
- How to Do a Technical Reading Program, by Fred Brooks Jr., and ammended by Neil Dodgson. (Cached Copy)
On Paper Review
- Graham Cormode. 2009. How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer. SIGMOD Rec. 37, 4 (March 2009), 100-104. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1519103.1519122
Collections of Advice on the Web
- Research Skills by Simon Peyton Jones
- Advice on Research and Writing collected by Mark Leone
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How to Do Great Research
Grad school survival advice from Nick Feamster and Alex Gray - Week 2: Writing Statistical Papers, BIOSTATISTICS / STATISTICS 572 Spring 2012, by Patrick J. Heagerty
- Tips on Presenting Technical Material by Stephen Scott
- Technical writing in computer systems and networks -- DAT147 , by Goteborg University, Sweden