Showing posts with label PhD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PhD. Show all posts

Monday, July 22, 2024

Anger management

  

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We all get angry at many things. It is normal. But, engaging in a quarrel or disrespecting others due to your hot temperament is no good. You become unpopular among people and branded as a quarrelsome, obstinate and uptight person which is not good in the long term. People become hesitant to deal with you and ultimately, you are isolated. There is no doubt that your competitive party will further inflate the rumours and make you untouchable. You will feel why people are so distant these days. In schools, colleges, or offices, it happens all the time. It is a dog-eat-dog world. We have competitors who are willing to displace us or replace us at any moment. If you constantly show such a hot temperament, it becomes a good opportunity for them.

In my school days, I came to know this. We engaged in silly fights or debates all the time. After such conflicts, you generally do not feel good. If the conflict is big and is unsolved for many days, the uncomfortable feeling stays for many days. Moreover, you just keep explaining the whole thing again and again before people. It just enhances the pain and suffering. People just need spicy talks and nothing else. So, I learned an important lesson to manage anger and not to engage in unnecessary conflicts.

There are some techniques which can be used in such sticky situations when you encounter an aggressive person. You have to be very patient not to give any ammunition to the other person’s canon. You keep calm and listen to what the other person is saying. You give a professional answer as per the situation and take a deep breath. Deep breathing helps to calm the mind.  After the encounter, you try to divert your attention to some other work and do not keep repeating things before an audience.  Generally, people take your words and add spice to further feed a larger audience. On your part, you should play it as a small affair and let the issue roll on its own. You are to protect your image. If you maintain a calm and quiet demeanour, the other person will be automatically looked upon as an aggressor.

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Saturday, July 13, 2024

Strategy to Write a Paper during PhD:10

  

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Research papers are essential for PhD degree awards. Every University or organization has their own set of criteria regarding research papers. So, one needs to check it once registered as a PhD student in that institution because research papers take time to write and then get published

 

Generally, students get stuck in a PhD for many years due to non-publication. You have to show some publications along with your thesis at the time of submission of your thesis. Otherwise, there is a strong possibility of getting the thesis rejected by the thesis reviewer on submission. They tend not to believe the findings stated in the thesis and keep on suggesting new things. Once verified research articles back you, you can stand your ground.

 

Generally, there are two kinds of research papers; the ones indexed in SCOPUS & Web of Science and approved by the UGC CARE list. I strongly tend to endorse SCOPUS & Web of Science journals as the UGC CARE list keeps on changing very frequently. Sometimes, during submission, it will be in the list and then it will vanish at an advanced stage of publication. I happened to have such an incident and I had to get it cancelled for publication. Again, I had to submit it to another journal. In that process, I had lost about 6 months. Well, I learned an important lesson of sticking to the reputed ones.

 

Some journals get delisted from the indexing services but in the case of SCOPUS, they maintain a database so there is no problem. Then, there is a concept of impact factor in the case of the journals. The journals with high impact factors are very much reputed ones. Therefore, they have high standards and a long waiting list. Many journals have a waiting list of 1 to 2 years once the article is accepted.

 

Web of Science journals are categorized as SCI and ESCI journals. Initially, the Institute developed the Science Citation Index (SCI) for Scientific Information (ISI) and now Clarivate Analytics maintains it. The SCI journals are highly valued for their standards in academic circles. The Emerging Science Citation Index (ESCI) journals are junior to SCI journals. They are in the process and have not reached the stage yet. Most of the time, they are respectable journals accepted by the institutions and there is no problem.

 

Different people apply different approaches during their PhD. In the initial days of PhD, I used to write review papers because I was setting my project in the right direction. Then, later phase of the project, I kept publishing partially my research findings. It solved the problem of my minimum requirement of papers via review papers and partial research finding papers. Besides, it increased my number of papers because you need numbers while applying for a job.

 

On the other hand, one of my colleagues who was doing a PhD in Computer science from a premier institute had to solve three problems related to the topic. While addressing those problems, she had to write papers individually addressing the problems. It was far more difficult compared to my case. Well, every institution has its own rules. 

 

In many cases, book chapters also help but you have to check the institution’s PhD regulations. So, PhD regulation of that institution should be read and reread. Generally, book chapters or conference presentations with the facility of extended paper publications should be considered for registering one’s idea if he or she is working in a competitive field. Moreover, many people use conferences as a networking ground to connect people because you need to provide a list of reviewers while submitting an article to a journal. Well, I have not done that but people do. If your writing and the content are superb, you do not need people to know you. Generally, science people value content at the end of the day.

 

If you like the post you can read or gift the author's books “B.Tech Guide Book",  "Campus Placement Guidebook" and " PhD Guidebook" available worldwide in Amazon in Kindle format. These book will help you strategize your life. You will find many important things which are not discussed anywhere. Click in the link below.

 
 

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Monday, July 24, 2023

Finding a research problem or gap & addressing novelty of the Ph.D project:10

 

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Your Ph.D project will have a certain research problem. Now, who do you find a problem or research gap? For that matter, you have to study the topic extensively. Sometimes you may be addressing a same problem but your approach may be different with different parameters. Then, you have to clearly mention the difference between you work and other’s work. Sometimes, your research problem will be totally unique and then, you do not have to give such justification.

 

While writing your Ph.D thesis and even research articles, you always have to address the question “ What is the novelty of your work?”. It means that the reviewer wants to know whether you are offering something new through your work. Therefore, one must ponder over this question early on his project. Otherwise, you have to reorient your work later on which is a big problem and time consuming. Many a time, students get trapped in the final submission phase due to this. So, one should be very careful regarding this.

 

One should try to publish as early as possible to register the idea regarding a certain approach to a problem. Many researchers try to register the ideas by attending top tier conferences. When you present an article in such Scopus indexed or Web of Science indexed tier 1 conferences, your article’s extended version gets published in good journals. This way you can register the idea. However, you should be careful not to give away the main essence of your project. In other words, you are to publish bare minimum meaning you are to keep the main part for the thesis (more like a trailer rather than whole film).

 

If you put everything to the article, you will not have anything left for the thesis and you may face copy right issue in some cases. Then, you can continue your work in peaceful manner. While working in your topic, you need to check the recent developments in the certain field frequently. If something similar comes into your notice, you need to tweak your work to maintain distinction. For more such articles, you can check the book 'PhD guidebook'

 

If you like the post you can read or gift the author's books “B.Tech Guide Book" , "Campus Placement Guidebook" and "PhD guidebook"available worldwide in Amazon in Kindle format. These book will help you strategize your life. You will find many important things which are not discussed anywhere. Click in the link below.

 

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9. Two people, two lessons regarding interviews 

 (https://authenticmedia2020.blogspot.com/2024/06/two-people-two-lessons-regarding.html)

11. Strategy to Write a Paper during PhD:10 

(https://authenticmedia2020.blogspot.com/2024/07/strategy-to-write-paper-during-phd.html)

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(https://authenticmedia2020.blogspot.com/2024/07/collaboration-during-phd-to-write.html)

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