====Links & Resources====

===For New Students===
  * {{ :misc:advice_on_doing_graduate_research_2022.pdf | Doing Graduate Research: a New Student's Guide}} 

  * {{ :misc:criticalthinkingandresearch202305.pdf | Critical Thinking & Research}}:  a discussion on what it means to do "good" research. (Credit: Prof Xiaoping Zhang)

===Presentation===
  * [[https://writingcenter.catalyst.harvard.edu/slides | Slide design tutorial]]: a guide on fundamentals of slide design 
  * [[https://www.assertion-evidence.com/tutorial.html | Assertion-evidence style guide]]: a modern   template for creating effective presentations

===Academic Writing===
  * {{ :misc:cs_writing.pdf |Scientific Writing for Computer
Science Students}}: A detailed guide to write CS papers, with useful tips for English usage.
  * [[https://ltl.lincoln.ac.nz/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2016/01/Tense-Use-in-Research-Writing.pdf | A guide on verb tense in academic reading]]
  * [[https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/conciseness/index.html | Concision -- Perdue Writing Lab]]: a guide to concise writing.
  * [[https://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~norman/papers/good_writing/Technical%20writing.pdf | A Guide on Technical Writing]]: with detailed examples. Quick tips:

<WRAP center round tip 90%>

    * Have a clear aim in mind before you start writing, and make sure that you gear everything you write towards that aim alone.
    * Keep things as simple as possible by using language that is clear and familiar.
    * Keep sentences and paragraphs short.
    * Avoid long, pompous words and phrases when there is a short simple alternative (especially avoid the words: utilise, facilitate, endeavour, necessitate, render).
    * Avoid unnecessary words, clichés and legal words.
    * Avoid repetition.
    * Use active rather than passive style.
    * Do not turn verbs into nouns.
    * Use personal rather than impersonal style.
    * Always refer to the same ‘thing’ in exactly the same way.
    * Use examples and analogies before introducing abstract concepts. 
    * Write informative (rather than descriptive) abstracts. 

</WRAP>

===Thesis Writing===
    * {{ :misc:a_guide_on_master_thesis_proposal.docx |Guidelines for the Master thesis proposal}}
    * {{ :misc:master_thesis_writing_tips_.pdf |Master thesis writing tips}} (also applies to Ph.D. thesis.)


===Other Tools===

[[https://www.draw.io/]] A web tool to create diagrams with latex support (actually it is better now to just use PowerPoint or Keynote)