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Miscellaneous
Resources on Doing Research
It
takes good tools to do good work --Confucius (551BC-479BC) |
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General
Guideline |
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How to Read a Paper
(The skill of reading research papers is rarely taught, leading to much
wasted effort)
How to do research at MIT AI Lab
Nature’s guide for mentors (Having a good
mentor early in your career can mean the difference between success and
failure)
Compact Between Biomedical Graduate Students and Their
Research Advisors (intended to support the development of
positive mentoring relationships)
How to do good research, and get it cited!
Bill Freeman: How to write a good CVPR submission
Y. Jin:
Research for Fun
R Hamming: You and Your Research
(it is about how you individually do your research) |
General writing strategies |
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The Elements of
Style
10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly
(reserving your most productive time for writing)
The Science of Scientific Writing
总之就是科研写作的九阳真经,绝对的宝典
Notes for research design and paper writing
Armando's Paper Writing and Presentations Page
(This way of writing will not yield a
Shakespearean work of literature, but it is consistent and will result
in...)
M. Ashby: How to Write a
Paper
Recipe for a Quality Scientific Paper: Fulfill
Readers' and Reviewers' Expectations
How to write a paper in
scientific journal style and format
Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences
The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for
Writers, Editors, and Publishers
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking |
Specific writing tips |
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How to have your abstract rejected
Bradford was a strong proponent of
the UDC (Universal
Decimal Classification) and
of establishing abstracts of
the scientific
literature
Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts
Strategies for writing effective conclusions
(Conclusion can provide a bridge to help your readers
transport back to their daily lives)
How to Structure & Organize Your Paper
Typefaces for Symbols in Scientific Manuscripts
Reviews of Modern Physics Style Guide
Mathematical Material
(This guide is intended to help authors who are preparing manuscripts for
Reviews of Modern Physics.)
A Guide to Writing Mathematics
IEEE Editorial Style Manual
(Grammatically, references may be treated as if they were
footnote numbers, or as nouns.)
The Most Common Habits from more than 200 English
Papers Written by Chinese
Common Errors in English Usage
(please don't ever give me your
paper to read that has any of these errors)
Common Bugs in Writing
Writing Cover Letters for Scientific
Manuscripts
Paragraph FLOW
is usually accomplished by concrete topic
sentences and smooth logical connections among ideas
How to use abbreviations
Use abbreviations sparingly and only when they will help readers
understand your work |
Latex Typesetting |
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Typesetting a paper as
beautiful as
sample paper with Word is very hard!
Latex templates at Overleaf
Install
MikTex and then
Winedt
or
TexStudio
(Chinese
Tex)
Learn LaTeX in 30
minutes
A Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε
(LATEX
2ε in 132 minutes)
How to Typeset Equations in LaTeX
LaTeX Stack
Exchange
Michael Shell's IEEEtran LaTeX class
Algorithm2e
(Floating
algorithm environment with algorithmic keywords)
more
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Latexdiff:
Determine
and mark up significant differences between LATEX files
(latexdiff.pl
draft.tex revision.tex > diff.tex)
Strawberry Perl
A
tool for cleaning bib files in a beautiful format
Tidybib |
Bibliography file for Latex Typesetting |
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Automatic Journal Title Abbreviation Package
BibTeX Tips and FAQ
A BibTEX Guide via Examples |
Figure |
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Using Imported Graphics in LATEX and pdfLATEX
TikZ
and PGF are TeX packages for creating graphics programmatically
Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
Choosing Colors for Data Visualization
Exports
Matlab figures nicely to a number of vector &
bitmap formats export_fig('x.pdf','-transparent') export_fig('x.png','-transparent','-m2')
README.md
File Exchange on Graphics
Install free software
ImageMagick and then use
xConvert to convert images to .pdf from
other typical formats |
English dictionary |
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Lexico: free English
dictionaries features multi-language dictionary, thesaurus, and translation
content
Free
online bilingual dictionaries for English to many other languages
English-English Dictionary:
Fast, Free Viewer App for the
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Oxford
Learner's Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster (USA)
Chinese-English Dictionary:
Youdao |
English Grammar |
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Ludwig is the first sentence search engine
that helps you write better English by giving you contextualized examples
taken from reliable sources
YouGlish
gives you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people
and in context
LanguageTool offers spell
and grammar checking
Punctuation serves to mark pauses and indicate
grammatical relationships between parts of a sentence
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Punctutation
Basic Punctuation Spacing Rules When Typing
Use of Verb Tenses
Definite
and indefinite articles
(Use the indefinite article a
or an only with a singular count noun whose specific identity is not known)
Use of the definite and indefinite articles in the English language
English Grammar @ British
Council
Synonyms & Antonyms |
English Pronunciation |
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British English with
Lucy Bella Earl
Rachel’s English
has nearly 400 videos to help you improve your spoken English and listening
comprehension. |
Visualization |
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Originlab
(data analysis and publication-quality graphing)
Cytoscape
Network data integration, analysis, and visualization in a box |
Literature |
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TIFS@DBLP
SPL@DBLP
Who's downloading pirated papers? In rich
and poor countries, researchers turn to the
Sci-Hub website.
Library Genesis
arXiv (Mirror
site at China) is an e-print service in the fields of physics,
mathematics, computer science
Web of Science
ESI Journal List
(Local
Copy)
Master Journal List |
Presentation |
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D. JP Phillips: How to Avoid Death By PowerPoint
(Transcript)
How to give a good research talk
(Simon Peyton Jones)
Pronunciation of mathematical expressions |
Coding |
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C
Compiler: GCC
List
Netlib Repository |
Mathematics |
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Mathmatical Writing (D.
Knuth) Keith
Conrad:
Advice on Mathematical Writing
Sheldon Axler: Linear Algebra Done Right
Math
Cookbook
Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and
Optimization Theory For Computer Science and Engineering
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |
Review |
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How to Write a Good Scientific Paper: a Reviewer’s Checklist
Michael Bieber:
How to Review
J. Smith: The Task of the Referee |
Research Ethic |
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Plagiarism
Retraction Watch Tracking retractions as a
window into the scientific process |
Classic Monograph |
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G. H. Hardy, E. M. Wright: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
R. C. Gonzalez:
Digital Image Processing
S. Haykin: Adaptive Filter Theory |
Free Software |
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7-zip
is a file archiver with a high
compression ratio.
Paint.NET (A free
image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows)
CoffeeCup
FTP
PointoFix
(a
practical and easy-to-use tool to support your lectures, trainings and
presentations)
Use
ImageMagick®
to create, edit, compose, or convert
bitmap images
Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, DjVu reader for
Windows
Autosub is a utility for automatic speech
recognition and subtitle generation (C:\Python27\python.exe
C:\Python27\scripts\autosub_app.py -C 2 -S en -D en %1)
Teleport Pro Offline Browsing Webspider |
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2024-03-13 |