A Reading List for PhD Students (and their Supervisors)

• Phil Agre. Networking on the network: A guide to professional skills for PhD students. Available online http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html. Current January 2003, August 2002.

• Steven Alter and Alan R. Dennis. Selecting research topics: Personal experiences and speculations for the future. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 8:314–329, 2002.

• Vance W. Berger and John P. A. Ioannidis. The Decameron of poor research. British Medical Journal, 329(7480):1436–1440, December 2004. (doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1436)

• John W. Chinneck. How to organize your thesis. Available online http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html. Current November 2005.

• Claire Kehrwald Cook. Line by Line. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1986.

• Gordon B. Davis. Advising and supervising doctoral students: Lessons I have learned. MISRC Working Paper 04-12, University of Minnesota. MIS Research Center, May 2004. Forthcoming as chapter in PhD Supervisors and Student Handbook for Information Systems Research, Butterworth-Heinnemann, 2004.

• Robert A. Day. How to write a scientific paper. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, PC-20(1):32–37, June 1977.

• A.R. Dennis and J.S. Valacich. Conducting research in information systems. Communications of AIS, 7(5), 2001.

• Hugh Gallagher. An exemplary college application essay. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/. Current November 2005, 1990.

• William Germano. The scholarly lecture: How to stand and deliver. The Chronicle Review, 50(14), November 2003.

• George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan. The science of scientific writing. American Scientist, 78:550–558, November/December 1990.

• John Grimond. The Economist style guide. Also available online http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/., 2005.

• John Grossman, editor. The Chicago Manual of Style. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, fourteenth edition, 1993.

• Richard W. Hamming. You and your research. Available online via a Google search, March 1986. Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar.

• A. R. Hevner, S. T. March, J. Park, and S. Ram. Design science in information systems research. MIS Quarterly, 28(1):75–105, 2004.

• Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury. How to give a great research talk. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/Giving%20a%20talk.pdf. Current November 2005.

• Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury. How to write a great research paper. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/Writing%20a%20paper.pdf. Current November 2005.

• Aviel William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1979.

• S. Katzoff. Clarity in technical reporting. Technical Report NASA SP-7010, NASA, Washington, D.C., 1964. Second edition. Available online http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/NASA-64-sp7010.pdf.

• Markus G. Kuhn. Effective scientific electronic publishing. Available online http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ mgk25/publ-tips/. Current March 2008, 2006.

• James Lavin. Proving almost anything: a beginner's guide to a world with infinite solutions. IEEE Potentials, pages 6–7, February/March 1996.

• Adrian Lee, Carina Dennis, and Philip Campbell. Nature's guide for mentors. Nature, 447(7119):791–797, June 2007.

• Roy Levin and David D. Redell. An evaluation of the ninth SOSP submissions -or- how (and how not) to write a good systems paper. Operating Systems Review, 17(3):35–40, July 1983.

• Marie desJardins. How to be a good graduate student / advisor. Available online http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html. Current November 2005.

• Marie desJardins. How to succeed in postgraduate study. Available online http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/jardins/t.htm. Current November 2005.

• Silvia Miksch. How to do research. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/. Current November 2005, 2005.

• John Mingers. The long and winding road: Getting papers published in top journals. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 8:330–339, 2002.

• George Orwell. Politics and the english language. Horizon, April 1946. Also available online http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit.

• Ian Parberry. A guide for new referees in theoretical computer science. Information and Computation, 112(1):96–116, July 1994. (doi:10.1006/inco.1994.1053)

• David A. Patterson. How to have a bad career in research/academia. Available online http://www.cs.utah.edu/ lepreau/osdi94/keynote/abstract.html and http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/ pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pdf. Current November 2005, November 1994. Invited Talk. First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '94) keynote address, November 14-17, 1994 Monterey, CA.

• Randy Pausch. Really achieving your childhood dreams. Video available online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo. Current September 2008, September 2007.

• Vern Paxson. Strategies for sound internet measurement. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2004.

• Chad Perry. A structured approach to presenting PhD theses: Notes for candidates and their supervisors. In ANZ Doctoral Consortium. University of Sydney, February 1994.

• Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh. How to Get a PhD. Open University Press, Buckingham, UK, third edition, 2000.

• E. Robert Schulman and C. Virginia Cox. How to write a Ph.D. dissertation. Annals of Improbable Research, 3(5):8, September 1997.

• E. Robert Schulman. How to write a scientific paper. Annals of Improbable Research, 2(5):8, September 1996.

• Mary Shaw. Writing good software engineering research papers. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 726–726. IEEE Computer Society, May 2003.

• Jonathan Shewchuk. Three sins of authors in computer science and math. Available online http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/ jrs/sins.html.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html. Current December 2004, 1997.

• Michael Shortland and Jane Gregory. Communicating Science: A Handbook. Longman Scientific & Technical, 1991.

• Charles H. Sides. How to Write and Present Technical Information. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.

• Yannis Smaragdakis. Phd rants and raves. Available online http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/ yannis/phd-slides.pdf. Current January 2008.

• Alan Jay Smith. The task of the referee. Computer, 23(4):65–71, 1990. (doi:10.1109/2.55470)

• William H. Starbuck. Fussy professor Starbuck's cookbook of handy-dandy prescriptions for ambitious academic authors or why I hate passive verbs and love my word processor. Available online http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/ wstarbuc/Writing/Fussy.htm. Current May 2005, 1999.

• John O. Summers. Guidelines for conducting research and publishing in marketing: From conceptualization through the review process. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 29(4):404–415, 2001. (doi:10.1177/03079450094243)

• Ivan Sutherland. Technology and courage. Sun Labs Perspectives Essay Series 96-1, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Santa Clara, CA, April 1996. Available online http://research.sun.com/techrep/Perspectives/smli_ps-1.pdf.

• Science jokes. Available online http://www.xs4all.nl/ jcdverha/scijokes/. Current February 2007, 2007.

• Toby Walsh. Empirical methods in CS and AI. Available online http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/ tw/empirical.html. Current November 2005.

• Jane Webster and Richard T. Watson. Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: Writing a literature review. MIS Quarterly, 26(2):xiii–xxiii, June 2002.

• Roel Wieringa. Writing a report about design research. Available online http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/ roelw/ReportingAboutDesignResearch.pdf. Current September 2008, 2007.

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