Good grad: doing research (posted by pndinhj)

Good Grad: Issues for Women
How to Be a Good Graduate Student
by Marie desJardins
Although this paper started out from a discussion about the problems women face in graduate school, it has evolved into something that I think is relevant for everyone, not just women. This is not to say, however, that there aren''t special problems faced by women.
In many cases, women and men face the same obstacles in graduate school, but react differently to them. For women, the ad***ional factors that are sometimes (but not always) present include isolation, low self-esteem, harassment and discrimination, unusual time pressures arising from family responsibilities, lack of a support network, and lack of relevant experience. Having an unsupportive advisor can thus become much more of a problem for women than for men. I hope that to some extent, this paper will help both women and advisors of women to provide the supportive, positive environment that all graduate students deserve.
Part of the reason that I changed the focus of the paper is that there have been many articles written recently on the subject of women scientists and women graduate students. These include [spertus], [toth], [hall1], [hall2], [hall3], [sandler], [nsf], [leveson], and [strok]; [mckay] talks about issues relevant for minority faculty members, many of which pertain to minority graduate students. The ''systers'' mailing list is an electronic resource for women in computer science; send e-mail to ''systers-request@pa.dec.com'' for more information.

Good Grad: Conclusions
How to Be a Good Graduate Student
by Marie desJardins
In ad***ion to the papers I have cited directly in the article, I found a variety of other resources to be useful, and have included them in the References section.
The UC Berkeley ''Graduate'' is a newsletter published by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division with articles of general interest to graduate students. I found this publication very informative both during graduate school and while writing this article. A number of particularly interesting articles are included in the References section.
Several articles ([bundy], [bental], [chapman]) give general advice on graduate school and doing research. Guidelines and suggestions for reviewing papers are given in [smith] and [shriver].
A number of articles on writing proposals and successfully applying for research grants are available ([somerville], [white-proposals], [white-grants], [lefferts]).
Graduate school is not an easy process, and too many students are thwarted and intimidated by unsupportive or unskilled advisors, lack of knowledge about what graduate school is all about, inflexible bureaucracies, and a myriad of other obstacles. I have tried to give advice that graduate students and caring advisors can use to lessen some of these obstacles.

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How to be a Good Graduate Student - by Marie desJardins:
http://heibeck.freeshell.org/Grad_Advice/how2b/How2b.pdf

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