teach-yourself-research

This repo is expected to help you develop the basic research skills, including academic writing, paper reading, presentation, note taking, etc.

Here are some useful tips for you to find what you want:

• You can now find the autogenerate table of contents in the top left corner (provided by GitHub).

Academic writing

Books

Name		Link
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing	This book identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing. It shows students how to frame their arguments as a response to what others have said and provides templates to help them start making the moves.	Amazon Douban
Art of Styling Sentences	The authors review the fundamentals of good sentence structure and then go on to describe twenty basic sentence patterns that encompass virtually every effective way of writing sentences in English.	Amazon Douban
The Elements of Style	The Elements of Style is a book every writer should read once a year.	Amazon Douban
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace	This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing.	Amazon Douban
On Writing Well	On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.	Amazon Douban
Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations	This unique "all-in-one" handbook begins with a discussion of the basics of scientific writing style and composition and then applies these principles to writing research papers, review articles, grant proposals, research statements, and resumes as well as to preparing academic presentations and posters.	Amazon Douban

Tools

Name		Link
Academic Phrasebank	The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation	Homepage
LaTeX tables generator	Entering tables in LaTeX documents can be burdensome because of the necessary formatting directives. For this purpose we created this online generator which (hopefully) will allow you to generate LaTeX code you can just copy & paste into your document's source.	Homepage
Scrivener	Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more. Scrivener won't tell you how to write—it simply provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing.	Homepage
Mathpix	Extract LaTeX from PDFs or handwritten notes in seconds.	Homepage
Note-by-LaTeX	The opensource repo for my published LaTeX book. by wklchris.	wklchris/Note-by-LaTeX

Articles

Name		Link
Tips for technical writing	List of tips and common mistakes to avoid in technical writing. by Wojciech Jarosz.	Homepage
Notes on writing	by Fredo Durand.	PDF
How to write a SIGGRAPH paper	SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Course	Slides

Courses

Name		Link
Writing in the Sciences	This course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, peer review, grant writing, ethical issues in scientific publication, and writing for general audiences. by Stanford.	Homepage
Academic English	Transform Your Writing Skills. Prepare for college-level writing and research in just four courses. by UCI.	Homepage
English for Research Publication Purposes	In five courses, you will acquire the knowledge and skills that are deemed to be essential to success in scientific writing. You will develop your expertise with a range of academic literacy skills and self-editing strategies to prepare a publishable manuscript that editors will take seriously. You will learn the unwritten rules of good writing to meet the requirements of modern-day research publications. You will also learn practical tools and techniques for writing an easy-to-read persuasive grant proposal and a convincing request for funding. Finally, you will gain skills necessary to communicate information obtained through a process of technical or experimental work. by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.	Homepage

Scientific visualization

Books

Name		Link
Scientific Visualization – Python & Matplotlib	An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib.	rougier/scientific-visualization-book

Tutorials

Name		Link
Matplotlib tutorial	Matplotlib tutorial for beginner.	rougier/matplotlib-tutorial

Tools

Name		Link
Matplotlib cheat sheets	Official Matplotlib cheat sheets.	matplotlib/cheatsheets

Paper reading

Tutorials

Tools

Presentation

Tutorials

Tools

Note taking

Tools

Misc.

Advice and guidelines

Name		Link
Advice and Guidelines for Wojciech’s students	by Wojciech Jarosz.	Homepage
Advice for early-stage Ph.D. students	by Philip Guo.	Homepage
A Survival Guide to a PhD	by Andrej Karpathy.	Homepage