Resources

• Roles and Responsibilities in Graduate Supervision: A Guide for Students, Faculty and Departments, Queen’s University SGS.
• Helen Moore, Working with Your Supervisor, UofT SGS Office of English Language and Writing Support
• Keys to Successful Student-Supervisor Relationships,  University of Alberta Graduate Students’ Association.
• Postgraduate Supervision: Best Practice Guidelines on Research Supervision for Academic Staff and Students, University of Dublin Graduate Studies Office.

• On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research, The National Academy of Sciences.
• Chris Johnson, Basic Research Skills in Computing Science, Department of Computer Science, Glasgow University.
• Chris Johnson, What is Research in Computing Science?, Department of Computer Science, Glasgow University.
• You and Your Research, J. F. Kaiser’s transcript of an Interview with Dr. Richard W. Hamming, Bell Communications.
• Booth, Colomb, and Williams, The Craft of Research, University of Chicago Press, 3rd Edition, 2008.
• Silvia Miksch’s resource website on How to Do Research.

• ACM’s portal
• IEEE’s ieeeXplore
• Elsevier’s ScienceDirect
• Wiley’s InterScience
• Springer’s SpringerLink
• Google Scholar
• PSU IST citeseer

For off-campus access to on-campus resources, please refer to this website. There is also this document talking about limiting in Google.

• Queen’s Library
  • Main website.
  • RACER, provides access to university libraries in Ontario.
  • Books 24×7 – IT Pro Collection, and access to other e-books can be found here.
  • Services for graduate students are described here.
• Health Counseling and Disability Services
  • Main website.
  • Counseling services.
  • Learning Strategies Development.
• School of Graduate Studies offers workshops on a variety of workshops throughout the year.
• Career Services
• School of Computing’s website for Useful Graduate Student Resource.

• The Getting Things Done portal.
• MindTools’ time management site.
• Wikipedia’s page on time magement.

• General writing
  • William Strunk, Jr., Elements of Style.
  • William Strunk, Jr and E. B. White, Elements of Style, Longman, 1999.
  • Mihir Bellare, Technical Writing for Computer Scientests, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California at San Diego.
  • R. T. Compton, Jr, Fourteen Steps to a Clearly Written Technical Paper.
  • Mary Shaw, Writing good software engineering research papers: minitutorial, ICSE 2003.
  • Henning Schulzrinne, Writing Technical Articles, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University.
  • Steve Easterbrook, How Theses Get Written: Some Cool Tips, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
  • Diane Kelly, Advice for Writing Theses, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College.
• Mathematical writing
  • David Goss, Some Hints on Mathematical Style.
  • S. L. Kleinman and G. P. Teslet, Writing a Math Phase Two Paper,  MIT.
  • Keith Conrad, Errors in Mathematical Writing, Math Department, University of Connecticut.
  • Dimitri Bertsekas, Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing, MIT.
  • D. E. Knuth, T. Larrabee and P. M. Roberts, Mathematical Writing.
  • Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet.
• Latex resources
  • J. Warbrick et al, Essential LaTex ++.
  • T. Oteiker et al, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTex2_e.
  • LaTex2_e Cheat Sheet.
  • Scott Pakin, The Comprehensive LaTex Symbol List.
• Presenting
  • S. P. Jones,  J. Hughes and J. Launchbury, How to give a good research talk.
  • Lucia Dettori, Research Talk 101, DePaul University.
  • Ian Parberry, How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker’s Guide for Students, Department of Computer Science, ACM SIGACT News.
  • M. J. Miller, Presentation Tips for Computer Science Grad Students, Cisco Systems.
  • F. Chanut, Tips for Designing and Delivering a Dynamic Research Talk, University of California at San Francisco.
  • Chris O’ Leary, Elevator Pitch Essenitals.
• Posters
  • L. F. Cranor, Research Posters 101, The ACM Student Magazine.
  • Writing and Presenting a Scientific Poster, The American Physiological Society.