Some Advice for Getting Through Graduate School 

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Writing

• "How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected" by Jim Kajiya
• "An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions, or, How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper" by Roy Levin and David D. Redell
• "On Ph.D. Thesis Proposals" by H. C. Lauer
• "Thoughts on the Structure of CS Dissertations" by Spencer Rugaber
• "Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts" by William Pugh
• "How To Have Your Abstract Rejected," by van Leunen and Lipton
• "Advice for 1996 POPL submissions"
• "How To Write A Dissertation or Bedtime Reading For People Who Do Not Have Time To Sleep" by Douglas Comer

Other

• "Becoming a Computer Scientist: A Report by the ACM Committee on The Status of Women in Computer Science A Subcommittee of the ACM Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights"
• "How to be a Good Graduate Student" by Marie desJardin
• "How to Read a Research Paper" by Spencer Rugaber
• "How to Present a Paper" by Ashwin Ram
• "How to Choose an Advisor" by H. G. Adams and Ashwin Ram
• "How to Deal with Faculty" by H. G. Adams
• "What is a Thesis Defense" by Chris Reisbeck
• "Advice on Research and Writing"
• "How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab" edited by David Chapman
• "The Research Cycle" by Ashwin Ram
• "A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science" by Ian Parberry
• "TAs as Teachers - Handbook for Teaching Assistants at UCSB"
• Graduate Student Resources on the Web
• "Networking on the Network" by Phil Agre
• "How to escape during a Ph.D. Final Exam" by Douglas Comer
• "Notes On The PhD Degree" by Douglas Comer

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Some books you might find helpful:

• The Academic Job Search Handbook. Julia Miller Vick, Mary Morris Heiberger. 2nd Edition Paperback, University of Pennsylvania Press, September 1,1996, ISBN: 0812215958.
• Bugs in Writing : A Guide to Debugging Your Prose. Lyn Dupre. Addison-Wesley, March 1995, ISBN: 0201600196.
• The Chicago Manual of Style, Fourteenth Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Second Edition. H. W. Fowler, Oxford University Press, 1995.
• The Elements of Style. William Strunck, Jr. and E. B. White. Macmillan Paperbacks, 1962.
• Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. Robert L. Peters. Noonday Press, 1992.
• A Handbook for Scholars. Mary-Claire van Leunen. Alfred A. Knopf. 1979, ISBN: 0394409043.
• The MLA Style Manual. Walter S.Achtert and Joseph Gibaldi. Modern Languaguage Association, 1985.
• Publication Manual for the American Psychological Association, Fourth Edition. American Psychological Association, 1994.
• Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed. H. Anthony Medley. Anthony Medley Paperback, Ten Speed Press, March 1,1992, ISBN: 0898154030.