A Reading List for PhD Students (and their Supervisors)

• Phil Agre. Networking on the network: A guide to professional skills for PhD students. Available online http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html. Current January 2003, August 2002.

• Steven Alter and Alan R. Dennis. Selecting research topics: Personal experiences and speculations for the future. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 8:314–329, 2002.

• Vance W. Berger and John P. A. Ioannidis. The Decameron of poor research. British Medical Journal, 329(7480):1436–1440, December 2004. (doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7480.1436)

• John W. Chinneck. How to organize your thesis. Available online http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/thesis.html. Current November 2005.

• Claire Kehrwald Cook. Line by Line. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1986.

• Gordon B. Davis. Advising and supervising doctoral students: Lessons I have learned. MISRC Working Paper 04-12, University of Minnesota. MIS Research Center, May 2004. Forthcoming as chapter in PhD Supervisors and Student Handbook for Information Systems Research, Butterworth-Heinnemann, 2004.

• Robert A. Day. How to write a scientific paper. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, PC-20(1):32–37, June 1977.

• A.R. Dennis and J.S. Valacich. Conducting research in information systems. Communications of AIS, 7(5), 2001. (doi:10.17705/1CAIS.00705)

• R. Farrow, F. Iniesto, M. Weller, and R. Pitt. The GO-GN Research Methods Handbook. Open Education Research Hub. The Open University, Buckingham, UK, 2020.

• Hugh Gallagher. An exemplary college application essay. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/. Current November 2005, 1990.

• William Germano. The scholarly lecture: How to stand and deliver. The Chronicle Review, 50(14), November 2003.

• George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan. The science of scientific writing. American Scientist, 78(6):550–558, November 1990. Available online https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing.

• Patricia Gosling and Bart Noordam. Mastering your PhD : Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond. Springer, New York, 2006.

• John Grimond. The Economist style guide. Also available online http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/., 2005.

• John Grossman, editor. The Chicago Manual of Style. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, fourteenth edition, 1993.

• Philip Guo. The Ph.D. grind. Available online http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm. Current January 2020, 2012.

• Richard W. Hamming. You and your research. Available online via a Google search, March 1986. Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar.

• A. R. Hevner, S. T. March, J. Park, and S. Ram. Design science in information systems research. MIS Quarterly, 28(1):75–105, 2004.

• Ralph E. Johnson, Kent Beck, Grady Booch, William Cook, Richard Gabriel, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock. How to get a paper accepted at OOPSLA (panel). In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA ’93, page 429–436, New York, NY, USA, 1993. Association for Computing Machinery. (doi:10.1145/165854.165934)

• Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury. How to give a great research talk. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/Giving%20a%20talk.pdf. Current November 2005.

• Simon L. Peyton Jones, John Hughes, and John Launchbury. How to write a great research paper. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/Writing%20a%20paper.pdf. Current November 2005.

• Aviel William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1979.

• S. Katzoff. Clarity in technical reporting. Technical Report NASA SP-7010, NASA, Washington, D.C., 1964. Second edition. Available online http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/NASA-64-sp7010.pdf.

• Barbara Kitchenham and Stuart Charters. Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering. Technical Report EBSE-2007-01, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, 2007.

• Barbara A. Kitchenham and Shari L. Pfleeger. Personal opinion surveys. In Forrest Shull, Janice Singer, and Dag I. K. Sjøberg, editors, Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering, pages 63–92. Springer London, London, 2008. (doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-044-5_3)

• Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts. Mathematical writing. Available online http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematical_writing.pdf. Current January 2020, 1987.

• Markus G. Kuhn. Effective scientific electronic publishing. Available online http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ mgk25/publ-tips/. Current March 2008, 2006.

• James Lavin. Proving almost anything: a beginner's guide to a world with infinite solutions. IEEE Potentials, pages 6–7, February/March 1996.

• Adrian Lee, Carina Dennis, and Philip Campbell. Nature's guide for mentors. Nature, 447(7119):791–797, June 2007.

• Ralp Lengler and Marin J. Eppler. A periodic table of visualization methods. Available online http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html. Current September 2012.

• Roy Levin and David D. Redell. An evaluation of the ninth SOSP submissions -or- how (and how not) to write a good systems paper. Operating Systems Review, 17(3):35–40, July 1983.

• Jack Lynch. Guide to grammar and style. Available online http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/ jlynch/Writing/index.html. Current September 2010.

• Marie desJardins. How to be a good graduate student / advisor. Available online http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.html. Current November 2005.

• Marie desJardins. How to succeed in postgraduate study. Available online http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/jardins/t.htm. Current November 2005.

• Matthew Might. Reading for graduate students. Available online http://matt.might.net/articles/books-papers-materials-for-graduate-students/. Current August 2010.

• Matthew Might. Reading for graduate students. Available online http://matt.might.net/articles/ways-to-fail-a-phd/. Current January 2012.

• Silvia Miksch. How to do research. Available online http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ silvia/research-tips/. Current November 2005, 2005.

• John Mingers. The long and winding road: Getting papers published in top journals. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 8:330–339, 2002.

• George Orwell. Politics and the english language. Horizon, April 1946. Also available online https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/.

• Ian Parberry. A guide for new referees in theoretical computer science. Information and Computation, 112(1):96–116, July 1994. (doi:10.1006/inco.1994.1053)

• David A. Patterson. How to have a bad career in research/academia. Available online http://www.cs.utah.edu/ lepreau/osdi94/keynote/abstract.html and http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/ pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pdf. Current November 2005, November 1994. Invited Talk. First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '94) keynote address, November 14-17, 1994 Monterey, CA.

• Randy Pausch. Really achieving your childhood dreams. Video available online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo. Current September 2008, September 2007.

• Vern Paxson. Strategies for sound internet measurement. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2004.

• Chad Perry. A structured approach to presenting PhD theses: Notes for candidates and their supervisors. In ANZ Doctoral Consortium. University of Sydney, February 1994.

• Estelle M. Phillips and Derek S. Pugh. How to Get a PhD. Open University Press, Buckingham, UK, third edition, 2000.

• Frantz Rowe. What literature review is not: diversity, boundaries and recommendations. European Journal of Information Systems, 23(3):241–255, 2014. (doi:10.1057/ejis.2014.7)

• E. Robert Schulman and C. Virginia Cox. How to write a Ph.D. dissertation. Annals of Improbable Research, 3(5):8, September 1997.

• E. Robert Schulman. How to write a scientific paper. Annals of Improbable Research, 2(5):8, September 1996.

• Claude Shannon. Creative thinking. Available online https://medium.com/the-mission/a-genius-explains-how-to-be-creative-claude-shannons-long-lost-1952-speech-fbbcb2ebe07f. Current August 2017, March 1952.

• Zur Shapira. "i've got a theory paper—do you?": Conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions to knowledge in the organizational sciences. Organization Science, 22(5):1312–1321, 2011.

• Mary Shaw. Writing good software engineering research papers. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 726–726. IEEE Computer Society, May 2003.

• Jonathan Shewchuk. Three sins of authors in computer science and math. Available online http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/ jrs/sins.html.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html. Current December 2004, 1997.

• Michael Shortland and Jane Gregory. Communicating Science: A Handbook. Longman Scientific & Technical, 1991.

• Forrest Shull, Janice Singer, and Dag I. K. Sjøberg, editors. Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering. Springer London, London, 2008. (doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-044-5)

• Charles H. Sides. How to Write and Present Technical Information. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.

• Yannis Smaragdakis. Phd rants and raves. Available online http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/ yannis/phd-slides.pdf. Current January 2008.

• Alan Jay Smith. The task of the referee. Computer, 23(4):65–71, 1990. (doi:10.1109/2.55470)

• Diomidis Spinellis. The Elements of Computing Style: 180+ Tips for Busy Knowledge Workers. Leanpub, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2014.

• Diomidis Spinellis. Advice for writing LaTeX documents. Available online https://github.com/dspinellis/latex-advice. Current January 2019, January 2019.

• William H. Starbuck. Fussy professor Starbuck's cookbook of handy-dandy prescriptions for ambitious academic authors or why I hate passive verbs and love my word processor. Available online http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/ wstarbuc/Writing/Fussy.htm. Current May 2005, 1999.

• Klaas-Jan Stol and Brian Fitzgerald. The ABC of software engineering research. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., 27(3):11:1–11:51, September 2018. (doi:10.1145/3241743)

• John O. Summers. Guidelines for conducting research and publishing in marketing: From conceptualization through the review process. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 29(4):404–415, 2001. (doi:10.1177/03079450094243)

• Ivan Sutherland. Technology and courage. Sun Labs Perspectives Essay Series 96-1, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Santa Clara, CA, April 1996. Available online http://research.sun.com/techrep/Perspectives/smli_ps-1.pdf.

• Science jokes. Available online http://www.xs4all.nl/ jcdverha/scijokes/. Current February 2007, 2007.

• M. Vidoni. A systematic process for mining software repositories: Results from a systematic literature review. Information and Software Technology, 144:106791, 2022. (doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106791)

• Toby Walsh. Empirical methods in CS and AI. Available online http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/ tw/empirical.html. Current October 2014.

• Jane Webster and Richard T. Watson. Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: Writing a literature review. MIS Quarterly, 26(2):xiii–xxiii, June 2002.

• Roel Wieringa. Writing a report about design research. Available online http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/ roelw/ReportingAboutDesignResearch.pdf. Current September 2008, 2007.

• Gene Woolsey. An exemplary essay on communication or corporate style, corporate substance, & the sting. Interfaces, 9(3):10–12, May 1979.