This page contains resources and link about "The Art of Doing a PhD" - or in other words different good advices for surviving graduate school. The page is still under construction and I will continuously add stuff here.

I made a presentation on the subject at the Doctoral Colloquium at the UbiComp 2007 Conference:

• slideshare
• pdf file

A newer version of "The Art of Doing a PhD" presentation is available below together with a presentation on how to write a paper:

• The Art of Doing a PhD [pdf]
• How to Write a (Computer Science) Paper [pdf]

The Fish Model

I often use the 'fish model' depicted below when I need to explain prospective and current PhD Student what the flow of a PhD looks like. I still need to explain it here, but there are some description of it in the presentation above.

Simple Guidelines

Paper abstract outline:

• Backgound
• However, gap
• What we did
• Contribution(s)
• What is means

Paper review guideline:

• Past Work / Related work
• Contribution
• Significance
• Validity
• Orginality

See also How to Write a Litterature Review by Saul Greenberg.

Resources

• Saul Greenberg’s Chapter 1 Club.
  • Deconstruction Chapter 1.
• "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!". A.k.a "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later", Ronald T. Azuma, UNC, 1997, 2003
• The PhD Comics site.
• Research Patterns by Dan Olson (2003).
• How to Write a Great Research Paper by Simon Peyton Jones, MS Research Cambridge.
• HOW TO WRITE RESEARCH ARTICLES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND RELATED ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES by Ivan Stojmenovic, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK
•  The ITU Survival Guide to living in Copenhagen