Top new questions this week:
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As an advisor, at what point do you decide that a PhD student no longer deserves authorship on a paper? I am an associate professor who is very active in engineering research at a low-ranked R2 …
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I am a math professor, and we’ve just moved back into our building after a year-long renovation. One of our rooms, currently piled high with junk, is to be made into a seminar room. I’m on the …
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I’m not really sure if this is the right place for a question like this – but it seems the closest. I was reading about exams on wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exam It makes it seem that the …
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I’ve received an email from a student [name changed for privacy] that goes like this: My name is John Hershey and I am in your Biology 101 class. I am here at this college on a soccer scholarship. I …
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I’m writing a difficult paper for my PhD. My first draft is rambling and long, so I’m cutting it down for the next round of edits. However, I find it difficult to discard old writing. Some of the …
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I have to collect the relevant dates (date submited, revised, accepted, published) from a large amount of papers. I would like to do this using R but I could adapt to any other suggested method. Many …
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I’m in math but not currently in academia (completed PhD). I had to leave and I’m trying to get back. Recently I’ve been working on some small problems that I made up myself from reading some papers. …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Is it acceptable or ok to report on students cheating? Many times during a test or an exam, I have seen students in front of me either passing notes, or otherwise collaborating whenever the professor …
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I have to send my doctoral dissertation to the members of my committee and I wonder how I should write the email. It is not a question of inviting them to be on the committee (they have already agreed …
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I’ve just read a paper that cited the same reference in two successive sentences: This is the first sentence (xxxx 2013). This is the second sentence (xxxx 2013). Up until now, I would have …
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I submitted an assignment in February and I recently received an email accusing me of academic misconduct. I have just finished my second year of university and this is the first time that I have ever …
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I am applying for a PhD programme in Europe. For that I need to write a cover letter. It will be more like a SOP (technical but shorter version, as it’s one page) or it can be more general stuff, as …
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I am writing an essay to apply for a summer research project and is supposed to write about ‘general research topic that interests me’ and ‘area I would like to focus’. I’m kind of confused about …
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I am an international student who will be joining a graduate program at a US university starting Fall ’18. In my home country, I have used such websites as Library Genesis and BookFi to download …
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Can you answer this question?
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I’d like to start with myself. I’m planning to transfer my studies to a German university. My objective is to become an astrophysicist. I want to have my Bachelor’s in mathematics, Master’s in physics …
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