Here are some good reading materials for graduate students.
- Martin A. Schwartz, The Importance of Stupidity in Research, Journal of Cell Science, 2008 (121) 1771.
- Uri Alon, How to choose a good scientific problem, Molecular Cell, 2009 (35) 726
- Derick G. Brown, Expectations of MS and PhD students, private note.
- How to do research http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/
- Learning From the Feynman Technique
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