Guidelines and tips for doing research and scientific writing

Research

• You and Your Research. Richard Hamming, 7 March 1986
• Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD. Lucy A. Taylor. Nature (Career column). 6 November 2018
• My Ph.D. advisers expected weekly progress reports. I’m glad they did. Pijar Religia. Science. 2 Dec. 2021
• Managing up: how to communicate effectively with your PhD adviser. Salgado et al. Nature (Career column). 10 December 2021

Academic writing

• Writing in the Sciences. Coursera course. Kristin L. Sainani, Stanford University
• Good Writing. Marc H. Raibert, January 1985
• Academic Phrasebank

Paper writing

• Guidelines for your research paper/thesis. Jan van Gemert. November 8, 2019.
• Three-phase Paper Writing. Daniel Ritchie.
• The unofficial guide for authors (or How to produce research articles worth citing). Tomislav Hengl & Mike Gould. 2006
• Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math. Jonathan Shewchuk, 1997

Domain-specific paper writing

• How to write a good CVPR submission. William Freeman, MIT CSAIL, Nov. 6, 2014
• How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected. Jim Kajiya.
• How to have a paper get into SIGGRAPH?. Takeo Igarashi, April 2007.
• How to make a SIGGRAPH paper while having all the fun. Li-Yi Wei, 2014
• Heuristics for Scientific Writing (a Machine Learning Perspective). Zachary C. Lipton. January 29, 2018

Misc

• Serial comma (or Oxford comma)

Review

• Surviving the Review Process. Seth Hutchinson. Dec. 2010
• How to write a good review?. CVPR 2020 tutorial.
• How to be a good reviewer?. Reviewer Tutorial for CVPR 2022. A presentation of the extended slides is available here.
• Novelty in Science: A guide for reviewers. Michael J. Black. Jan. 30, 2022