Research advice guides

Collection of guides on various research and related topics.

Writing

• Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts - William Pugh
• How to Write a Technical Paper - Michael Hicks
• How to Write Mathematics - P. R. Halmos
• Imagine the Reader [video] - Benjamin Pierce
• Leslie Lamport on Writing Papers
• Shitty First Drafts - Anne Lamott
• What it’s like to be a POPL referee; or how to write an extended abstract so that it is more likely to be accepted - Mark Wegman
• Writing and Speaking with Style - Benjamin C. Pierce and Rajeev Alur
• Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers - Mary Shaw

Talks & Presentation

• Giving Technical Talks [source] - Scot Drysdale
• How I Give a Talk - Javier Esparza
• How (not) to give a great research talk [video] - Leonidas Lampropoulos
• How to give a technical presentation - Michael Ernst
• How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science - Ian Parberry
• Making a technical poster - Michael Ernst

Artifact & Technical Guides

• ACM Artifact Review and Badging - Current ACM badging guidelines
• EAPLS Artifact Badges - European badging scheme
• Empirical Evaluation Guidelines - ACM SIGPLAN checklist
• Guidelines for Proof Artifacts
• Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems - for benchmarks & experiments

Review

• A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science - Ian Parberry
• How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer - Graham Cormode
• Mistakes Reviewers Make - Niklas Elmqvist
• The Task of the Referee - A.J. Smith

Other

• Faculty Job Interview Questions
• Getting an academic job - Michael Ernst
• Getting Your Research Adopted - Emery Berger
• How to Read a Paper - S. Keshav
• The Three Golden Rules for Successful Scientific Research - EW Dijkstra