如何成为高产博士生（摘抄二）--博士生的十不要

how to be a producitve doctoral student

如何成为一名高产的博士生（摘抄二）

1. One problem for many students in a doctoral program is not approaching their time as a PhD student correctly.

博士阶段中学生最大的一个问题可能是他们并没有像一名博士生那样把握时间

2. The underlying goal of any PhD pro gram is to help the student become a serious scholar in her area of inquiry. The way a student establishes herself is by writing a dissertation that makes a substantive contribution to the academic literature.

博士项目的重要目标是帮助学生成为领域内真正的学者。学生支楞起来的方式是撰写一篇对于学术文献具有重要贡献的毕业论文。

3. When a student enters a doctoral program, she should keep the ultimate goal of producing research in mind from day one. She should work to develop skills, to acquire a knowledge of the literature, and to come up with ideas that can lead to a successful research program.

打进入博士项目的第一天起，博士生就应该牢记自己的目标是做研究。他or她应该培养技能，获取知识以及思考研究问题以便成功完成研究项目。

The “Don'ts" ofBeing a PhD Student

博士研究生的十不要

1) Don't be too concerned with your grades. When you apply for a job, nobody will ever ask for them.

不要太关心你的分数，当你找工作的时候，没有人会关心这些。

2)Don't be competitive with your fellow students. Your ultimate placement depends on the quality of your work on a national scale, not on your ranking relative to other students in your program. If you work well with your fellow students, be your future colleagues, coauthors, and lifelong friends.

不要和你的同学竞争，你最终的归宿取决于你在全国范围内的工作质量，而不是你在同学中的排名。如果你能和同学合作好，你们可以成为未来的同事，合作者以及一生的朋友。

3)Don't be too intimidated to ask questions of faculty. We are being paid to answer your questions, so ask them!

不要太害怕向老师提问。我们都能从提问中受益，所以勇敢提问吧!

4)Don't go into hiding. Always keep a high profile in your department, even if things aren't going particularly well.

不要做隐形人。在系里保持高可见度，甚至进展并不顺利时也要这样做。

5)Don't restrict yourself to one area, or to the specialties of your adviser. Most faculty have knowledge and expertise broad enough to supervise the work you want to write, not just what they want to write.

不要将自己限制在某一领域，或者仅仅关注你导师的专长。大多数老师都具有足够的知识和技能指导做你想做的，不要只局限于他们想做的。

6)Don't ever think that the first draft of a paper will be good enough. It won't. Most faculty papers go through multiple revisions before they are ready to be submitted to a journal, yours will probably go through five to ten major revisions befores you are ready to send it out on the job market.

不要以为完成第一稿就足够了。肯定不是这样的。大多数老师在文章准备好投稿前都会经过多次修改。当你准备好将你的文章投入到工作市场时，你的文章可能会经过五到十轮大修。

7)Don't think of research as a game. You are trying to teach the profession something meaningful, not just complete the Phd program. The same goes for the publication process: the best papers are written to pass along to others something important, not just to get published.

不要将研究视为一个游戏。你可以努力从专业中回去更多的意义感，而不是仅仅完成博士项目。发表也一样，最好的文章往往是向其他人传递一些重要的东西，而不是仅仅被发表。

8)Don't write papers that are interesting only to academics. If you're in an economics program, try to explain the actual economy. It's more fun and interesting that way.

不要只写只有学术界关心的文章。如果你是攻读经济学博士，尝试去解释真实经济。这样会更加有趣。

9)Don't write papers for the purpose of illustrating a technique. Find an interesting question and use the techniques appropriate for the question.

不要为了论证一种技术而写一篇文章。找到一个有趣的研究问题，然后使用适合这个问题的技术。

10)Don't write papers that are relevant today but are unlikely to be of interest in the future.

不要只写那些今天看来有用，但是长期看来却没有人会关心的话题。

ps 翻译比较生涩，翻着玩玩；我是扫描纸质图片转文字，可能有错漏，并非原文问题，应该是我转换的问题，望周知，谢谢