Shuwen Jethro Sun – Ph.D. Reading list

How to write a good research paper (writing)

How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper/An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions (from Ninth SOSP PC co-chair)

Dave Patterson's Writing Advice

Writing a research paper with Jimmy Lin

Storytelling 101: Writing Tips for Academics from How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

Writing Pet Peeves by Jimmy Lin

How to write research paper from Michael Ernst

On writing from Terence Tao

Armando's Paper Writing and Presentations Page

Writing a good introduction from Jim Kurose

How to Write an Abstract by Philip Koopman

Writing resources from Renee Miller

Improving your academic writing: My top 10 tips from Raul Pacheco-Vega

Top-10 tips for writing a paper by Jim Kurose

Writing Tips from Jim Kurose

Tech writing resources from Priya Narasimhan

The BLUF Handout from Justine Sherry

Related: On Paper Reviewing

Thoughts on Reviewing from Mark Allman

The Paper Reviewing Process from greatresearch.org

How to constructively review a research paper from Arvind Narayanan

Advice on reviewing papers

Thread regarding reading papers in CS-research-practice slack channel

Prof Justine Sherry's Systems Paper Rubric

How to give a good research talk

How to give a bad talk from David Patterson (John Ousterhout version)

Presenting a Technical Talk from How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

Tips for creating compelling presentation from Raja Sambasivan

How to Write a Conference Talk by Michael Hicks

How to do good (or bad) research

How to have a bad career in research/academia by David Patterson

“The last lecture” from Randy Pausch

Mind the Gap from Nick Mckeown SIGCOMM’12 award keynote

Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking by Jennifer Rexford (youtube video)

Doing “Big Science” in Academia from Amin Vahdat

Advice for young researchers from Jennifer Rexford

Advice for researchers and students from Michael Ernst

How to consistently do successful experimental research? (quora answer from Ben Zhao)

How to do great research by Nick Feamster

Promoting Research Quality

Confluences in Programming Languages Research

Grad school survival guide

Graduate School: Keys To Success from Remzi Arpaci

Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science from Mor Harchol-Balter

A long, rambling, mostly personal corpus of advice on applying toComputer Science grad school (for UWCSE students) from Justine Sherry

The Genius Fallacy from Jean Yang

Research Patterns from How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

Advice to PhD students by Jayant Udgaonkar

Cultivating Your Research Taste from How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

You and Your Research Proposal from How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

Dealing with Rejection by Niklas Elmqvist

What are important aspects for a PhD student to succeed in academia? (quora answer from Ben Zhao)

What is grad school from James Mickens

My Advice To My Graduate Students from Murat Demirbas (also see)

Why Go to Graduate School and How to Get into the Program of your Dreams from Amin Vahdat

“So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!” from Ronald Azuma

Me and My Research from Victor Bahl

A Five-Minute Guide to Ph.D. Program Applications from Philip Guo

Advice to PhD students from Jayant Udgaonkar

15 pieces of advice I with my PhD advisor had given me from Jim Kurose

On offering advice to aspiring scientists by Oded Goldreich

Intro to Research and Grad School from John Regehr

Modest Advice for New Graduate Students from Dorsa Amir

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. from Matt Might

Advice on writing an author response

Time Management Tactics for Academics from How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

Well-written academic blogs

How to Do Great Research (Nick Feamster)

Embedded in Academia from John Regehr

List of advice (for PhD students)

Advice to systems researchers

Advice on Research and Writing

How did you choose your areas of research (quora questions)

A reading list for computer scientist from John Regehr

David Patterson’s Advice for New Graduate Students (from Mitchell Wand)

Time management from Randy Pausch

Resources list from Hamed Haddadi

Advice collection from Tao Xie

Speech at CMU Class of 2008 at the Commencement ceremony (Randy Pausch)

Hammer and nails

The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything

The Rise of ‘‘Worse is Better’’

Grad School Advice from Jason Hong

Advice on Research and Writing from Mark Leone

Armando's Paper Writing and Presentations Page

Misc on writing

“run” + “time” = ???

LaTeX usage notes from Eddie Kohler

Things I Keep Repeating About Writing

Capra Style Guide

On the other hand, what do your advisor think about PhD?

Interested in working with me? from Vijay Chidambaram