Guide to Quality
Research/Writing/Reading
*WIP : Work In Progress

Advice on Research Writing

• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html

Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing

• https://www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/Ten_Rules.html

You and Your Research

• https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

• https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw?si=69JXkoxhX2D3NNnK

Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math

• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jrs/sins.html

How to write a (hopefully good) paper

• https://mri.beckman.illinois.edu/resources/good_paper.pdf

101 Writing Tips

• https://mri.beckman.illinois.edu/resources/writing_tips.pdf

How to write a good research paper?

• https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChanGroup/write_paper.html

Liang's Group (Find the resources in the 'OTHER USEFUL LINKS' section)

• https://mri.beckman.illinois.edu/links.html

Notes on writing

• https://people.csail.mit.edu/fredo/PUBLI/writing.pdf

Time Management

• https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/bookshelf/timetalk.htm

• https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

How to Do Great Research

• https://mathema.tician.de/images/nick-advisor.pdf

• https://www.csuohio.edu/sites/default/files/USRA_How_to_do_great_research.pdf

• https://noise-lab.net/research-course/

• https://www.cs.unm.edu/~saia/links.html

• https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487

A Survival Guide to a PhD

• https://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/

CS PhD --help

• https://phdadvice.carrd.co/

A Course: "Research Skills" CSC 595, Fall 2025 

• https://web.uvic.ca/~nmehta/csc595_fall2025/

• https://simon.peytonjones.org/research-skills/

How to write a reviewer report?

• https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChanGroup/write_review.html

Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper

• https://jeffhuang.com/struggle_for_each_paper/

How to write personal statement for graduate school application? (Graduate school refer as MS/MSc/MPhil/Pre-Doc/PhD)

• https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChanGroup/write_statement.html

MSR Resources (Some of them are common) 

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/write-great-research-paper/other-resources/

CS Open Ranking

• https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/csopenrankings/

• https://drafty.cs.brown.edu/csprofessors?src=csor_placementrank

• https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/

• https://benschmidt.org/post/2020-07-30/2020-07-30-cs-rankings/

• https://jeffhuang.com/computer-science-open-data/