Advice for (potential) graduate students

I encourage my students to train some key skills that will help them to succeed in their career plans. Successful scientific work is not only producing data, but also communicating them! This happens usually in the form of publications in scientific journals and presentations at conferences. Secondly, for pursuing a career in academia, one needs to develop skills for writing grant applications. Check out the links below that may give you some help and hints:

Some hints and advice on paper-writing for graduate students (by Florian Schiestl)
Some advice on giving good talks (by Scott Keogh)

Some more useful resources for students:

• Scott Keogh`s amazing homepage with plenty of information on paper and grant writing, giving talks, etc: http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Scott/Studentresources.html
• Elements of Style, by W. Strunk, a classic reference on scientific writing, online version: http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
• Didaktikzentrum ETH: rules for seminars, posters and key elements of scientific communication by Dr. Sarah Shephard: http://www.diz.ethz.ch/docs/index