This is a collection of, what we believe are, useful reading, writing, and presentation resources for grad students especially in the security and systems field.

Reading

• How to Read a Paper by Srinivasan Keshav

Writing

• Heilmeier’s Catechism on Writing Research Proposals by George H. Heilmeier
• How to write a great research paper by Simon Peyton Jones
• Writing Technical Articles
• Hints on how to write an SOSP paper by Irene Y. Zhang
• Opening sentences of research papers by Didem Demirag
• Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math by Jonathan Shewchuk
• Guide for Scholarly Writing by Shomir Wilson
• Writing Your Research Statement
• Writing a Research Statement

Paper Review

• Writing reviews for systems conferences by Timothy Roscoe
• Notes on Constructive and Positive Reviewing by Mark Hill and Kathryn S McKinley

Giving a Talk

• Tips for Giving Clear Talks by Kayvon Fatahalian
• How to give a technical presentation (how to give a scientific talk) by Michael Ernst
• The “Job Talk” Talk Collected wisdom on the academic job hunt by Thomas Wenisch

CS Skills to learn