PhD Suvival Guides

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此贴为书单,在学校图书馆或者公共图书馆里应该能找到
一些书是关于申请grad school的,[] 内为端木的评论
格式上并不统一,大家凑合看吧 :P

A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science/ Peter J. Feibelman
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Chapters:

1. Do you see yourself in this picture?
2. Important choices: a thesis adviser, a postdoctoral job
3. Giving talks
4. Writing papers: publishing without perishing
5. From here to tenure: choosing a career path
6. Job interviews
7. Getting funded
8. Establishing a research program

Page 36-37
About seminar:

1. Your seminar is a performance. It needs to be carefully planned and thoroughly rehearsed.
2. Present yourself confidently. Act as though you have enjoyed doing your research and that your results are exciting to you.
3. Respect your audience. They are spending an hour to hear you. They want to understand what you have to say, even if your specialty is not theirs. They do not want to be "snowed," nor do they want to be treated as "experts" in a field where they really are not.
4. Do not waste your time with filler. Make sure each slide pushes your story forward. If your talk is a bit too short, no one will object.
5. Make your visual aids pleasing to the eye without too much of a Madison Avenue look.


Additional reading:
Communicating in science : writing a scientific paper and speaking at scientific meetings
Author:uwashington.worldcat.org
Publisher:Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Edition/Format:Book : English : 2nd ed

[I like this book ^^]

How to get into the top graduate schools : what you need to know about getting into law, medical, and other Ivy League schools explained simply / by David Wilkening.
Ocala, Fla. : Atlantic Pub., c2008.


A Primer On Getting Into Graduate School
by Eric L. Walters
University of California, Berkeley
Last Updated: 03 July 2007
ericlwalters.org

Page 68-70

some qualities you may find in terrible advisors:
  • in discussing your paper, he or she tells anecdotes about the author to impress on students that the advisor knows much more than the students
  • he or she reads a student paper only one time
  • he or she changes the subject when there are disagreements. e.g. "we could talk about this forever but I think we are all working on the same basic idea."
  • the advisor reacts to a student's suggested readings by saying, "Why in the world are you wasting your time reading that, anyway?"
  • the advisor is far more interested in displaying his or her erudition by coming up with catchphrases or buzzwords that have no real meaning.
  • The advisor assigns older students to guide younger ones.
  • He or she involves students in decision-making for only routine matters such as spending an hour deciding who should be a discussion leader.
  • He or she has students handle computer system administration and tell them it counts as research.
  • The advisor shares his or her most trivial thoughts with students.
  • The advisor avoids any contact with students.
  • He or she is never demanding.
  • He or she ridicules anyone who asks questions.
  • The advisor takes no interest in courses the students are taking.
  • He or she mumbles in an apparent attempt to avoid communication with the student.

Resource Center for Graduate Student External Support
chaser.rutgers.edu

Getting what you came for : the smart student's guide to earning a Master's or a Ph.D / Robert L. Peters ; illustrations by the author
New York : Noonday Press, 1997
[classical!]

Graduate admissions essays : write your way into the graduate school of your choice / by Donald Asher
Berkeley, Calif : Ten Speed Press, c2000
[great book! It also contains examples for scholarship application.]

The ultimate grad school survival guide / Lesli Mitchell
Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's, c1996

Mastering your PhD : survival and success in the doctoral years and beyond / Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam
New York : Springer, 2006.
[useful and concise]

The Chicago guide to your career in science : a toolkit for students and postdocs / Victor A. Bloomfield and Esam E. El-Fakahany
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

Making it into a top graduate school : ten essential steps to graduate school admission / Howard R. Greene and Matthew West Greene
New York : Cliff Street Books, c2001.
[OK]

How to succeed in college mathematics : a guide for the college mathematics student / Richard M. Dahlke
Plymouth, MI : BergWay Pub., c2008.

The Ph.D. process : a student's guide to graduate school in the sciences / Dale F. Bloom, Jonathan D. Karp, Nicholas Cohen
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

Graduate school : winning strategies for getting in with or without excellent grades / David Gerald Mumby
Proto Press Publications 1997

How to get a PhD : a handbook for students and their supervisors
Open University Press 2000

Doing and writing qualitative research / Adrian Holliday.
London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2007.

Research projects and research proposals : a guide for scientists seeking funding / by Paul G. Chapin ; with a foreword by Alan I. Leshner
Cambridge, U. K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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