Not all students have access to guidance on navigating the unique world of academic research. Importantly, this uneven playing field hurts equity and diversity. To help address this problem, I am providing the following documents to share my perspective on academic research. These are my personal opinions and not the policy or views of my employer. All names of people have been changed to protect anonymity.
If you have ideas for other topics or dissemination mechanisms, e-mail me! I will continue developing these documents, so appreciate your feedback.
Advice for graduate students
Expectations of graduate students
Meeting with your advisor
Establishing an online presence
Building expertise
Collaboration
Attending a conference
Further resources
Productivity and process
Being a productive writer
The process of writing a paper
Literature review
Paper formatting advice
Sharing papers and source code
Sections of your paper
Title
Abstract
Introduction
Materials and methods (with Mark Denavit, Erica Fischer, Matthew Eatherton)
Conclusions
Peer review
Checklist for effective presentations (coauthored with Sabine Loos)
Developing and giving technical presentations (video)
General strategies for preparing presentations (video)
Creating effective graphics (video)
Presenting at a conference
Don't wait for things to get easy
Promoting classroom discussion
Stand-up meeting format
Presenting at a conference
Why I am writing advice articles
An honest bio
How I Got Here: A Career Chat with Jack Baker (video)
Being a professor
Negative proposal review comments
Acknowledgments: Thanks to Lukas Bodenmann, Corinne Bowers, Francisco Galvis, Erica Fischer, Anne Hulsey, Peter Lee, Dawn Lehman, Sabine Loos, Rodrigo Silva Lopez, Maryia Markhvida, Emily Mongold, Michael Scott, Neetesh Sharma, Danielle Vidal, Jimmy Zhang, Tinger Zhu, Oregon State University Civil and Construction Engineering's Write Club, and the rest of my research group for helpful suggestions and feedback on the above documents and this general project.
Thanks to Ashly Cabas, Gemma Cremen, Roberto Gentile, Yolanda Lin, Sabine Loos, Chukwuebuka Nweke, and Lisa Tobber for excellent insights and feedback on the faculty articles.
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