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two important steps

RoozbehSanaei — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:09:19 -0400

1. GOOD REVIEW: Review process is most important step. Review papers very broadly. Not focus on special part or subject soon. It helps you to use each tool in its place and not to try using unsuitable tools for solving problems as an engineer or researches. We may don’t need read too much to solve a specific problem but we need to read too much to find a special problem! You can find out which systems are more important now and not analyzed and what are the problems . But don’t limit yourself to literature. Get lessons from your experimental and computational work. Try to find out which part of work is hard to do? is there easiest way to do this? Why systems are behave like this? I think in future organizations would support projects related to develop wiki-style review in order to help researchers to review latest researchs easily.

2. INNOVATIVE (=GOOD but UNUSAL) SYSTEMS or SOLUTIONS: We can divide research works on two categories. Those who study phenomena and describe the nature of it and those who develop a method to doing something. Classically first group called discoveries and the second called inventions. If you want to discover new thing try to attack old important aspect of new important system or new important aspect of a old important system or new important aspect of new important system or rarely old important aspect of old important system which are forgot. Don’t ask yourself why others did not study it it may be your piece of cake. If you think sth is important in its nature don’t iforget t because it is not done by others or there is no highly cited paper about that. At least try to find out why that idoes not get attention . If you try to develop new methods don’t limit your self to modyfing known methods. develop your own method. And even try to use knowledge from other disciplines to do this. and use new good solutions for old good problems or old good solutions for new good problems. and new good solutions for new good problems or rarely old good solutions for old good problems which are forgot. of course how much your systems be important for the society you will have impact but try to be innovative even in cooking!.

Thanks, Prof. Suo!

CAEengineer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:10:49 -0500

Thanks for taking your precious time to reply my question! I will definitely read the posts.

==================== Research Engineer in Automotive Industry

essays on writing well

Zhigang Suo — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:41:30 -0500

Dear Hugh: I don't believe that there is any special tip for technical writing. However, there are things inherently more difficult to describe in words: just imagine teaching someone to ride a bicycle in an email.

It does help if you read writings by people whose style you admire. It may also help to learn a few basic rules of writing. A while back I posted a list of essays and books on writing well.

Really excuse me for my poor english!

Roozbeh Sanaei — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:23 -0500

I know that it is very neccessary for me to take a serious course in english!

I want to ask some basic

CAEengineer — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:53:47 -0500

I want to ask some basic questions about writing papers or technical reports.

Techical writing: it is so easy for me to write a paper in informal english. However, I do meet people with not-so-good spoken english who write very nice technical papers. How to improve on this? Read more paper?

Thanks for your advices.

==================== Research Engineer in Automotive Industry

Best practices of writing good papers

Zhigang Suo — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:57:25 -0500

Dear Roozbeh: Your post is a remarkable summary of the best practices. The post points to many facts about the business of doing research, facts that should be more widely appreciated. Some of our colleagues may point out your unusal uses of English, but you have expressed ideas clearer than many of fine talks on the subject. Thank you.

I'll take this opportunity to point to another remarkable essay on writing a paper, written by George Whitesides, the world best cited chemist. I've been sending his essay to all my students and collaborators.

Please Comment!

Roozbeh Sanaei — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:29:29 -0500

I think it is not bad to state your experience about writing igh quality scientific papers i used the TERM HIGHLY CITED paper just to make a difference between this kind and well written paper which is used repeatitively by name of "GOOD PAPER" in internet.