This repo is expected to help you develop the essential mindsets and basic research skills, including academic writing, paper reading, presentation, note taking, etc. Issues and PRs are welcome!
| Entry | Author(s) | |
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| Principles of Effective Research | Michael A. Nielsen | "This essay is intended as a letter to both myself and others, to hold up in the sharpest possible terms an ideal of research I believe is worth working toward." |
| How to Do Good Research | Fredo Durand | "We all can do very good research. maybe not genius, but excellent." |
| You And Your Research | Richard Hamming | "It is not about managing research, it is about how you individually do your research. I could give a talk on the other subject—but it’s not, it’s about you." |
| A Survival Guide to a PhD | Andrej Karpathy | "But disclaimers are boring, lets get to it!" |
| 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency | Matt Might | "Having watched Ph.D. students succeed and fail at four universities, I infer that success in graduate school hinges on three qualities: perseverance, tenacity and cogency." |
| Advice for Early-stage Ph.D. Students | Philip Guo | "Bookmark this page and read it again once every month." |
| Advice for First-year Ph.D. Students | Philip Guo | "Here is a 40-minute talk on advice I would've wanted to hear back when I was a first-year Ph.D. student." |
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| They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing | This book identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing. It shows students how to frame their arguments as a response to what others have said and provides templates to help them start making the moves. |
| Art of Styling Sentences | The authors review the fundamentals of good sentence structure and then go on to describe twenty basic sentence patterns that encompass virtually every effective way of writing sentences in English. |
| The Elements of Style | The Elements of Style is a book every writer should read once a year. |
| Style: Toward Clarity and Grace | This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. |
| On Writing Well | On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. |
| Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations | This unique "all-in-one" handbook begins with a discussion of the basics of scientific writing style and composition and then applies these principles to writing research papers, review articles, grant proposals, research statements, and resumes as well as to preparing academic presentations and posters. |
| Entry | Author(s) | |
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| Tips for technical writing | Wojciech Jarosz | List of tips and common mistakes to avoid in technical writing. |
| Notes on writing | Fredo Durand | |
| How to write a SIGGRAPH paper | SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Course |
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| Academic Phrasebank | The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation |
| LaTeX tables generator | Entering tables in LaTeX documents can be burdensome because of the necessary formatting directives. For this purpose we created this online generator which (hopefully) will allow you to generate LaTeX code you can just copy & paste into your document's source. |
| Mathpix | Extract LaTeX from PDFs or handwritten notes in seconds. |
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| Scientific Visualization – Python & Matplotlib | An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib. |
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| rougier/matplotlib-tutorial | Matplotlib tutorial for beginner. |
| matplotlib/cheatsheets | Official Matplotlib cheat sheets. |