Nic Herndon

Last lecture: whole meeting or just the lecture (by Randy Pausch)
Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes (by Richard St. John)
Letter to my younger self (by Ray Allen)

How to build an economic model in your spare time (by Hal R. Varian) - how to choose research ideas
Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming (by Thomas C Erren et al.)
Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published (by Philip E Bourne)
What Makes a Result Negative? (by Noah A. Smith)
Choosing a venue: conference or journal? (by Michael Ernst)

Infographic: How to read a scientific paper (by Natalia Rodriguez)
How to read a scientific paper (from Purdue libraries)
How to read a paper (by Srinivasan Keshav)
How to read a research paper (by Luis Enrique Sucar)
How to read a research paper (by Michael Mitzenmacher)
How to read a scientific article (by Mary Purugganan and Jan Hewitt)
Scientific article review (from Writing Studio)
Reading scientific papers (by Robert Siegel)

Academic Phrasebank (by John Morley)
11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously (by Angel Borja)
How to write a great research paper (by Simon Peyton Jones et al.)
Writing a technical paper (by Michael Ernst)
How to write papers and give talks (by Bill Freeman, Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola)
The Science of Scientific Writing (by George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan)
Writing Clearly and Simply (by WebAIM)
Writing content with the inverted pyramid style (by Edwin Toonen)
How to set up an easy-to-read text (by Marieke van de Rakt)
Generic Technical Paper Skeleton
Helpful Hints for Technical Paper Writing
Teach Technical Writing in Two Hours per Week
How to Organize your Thesis (by John W. Chinneck)
Ten Reasons Why TeX is Better than Word
The Elements of Style (by William Strunk)
Good enough practices in scientific computing (by Greg Wilson, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston, Justin Kitzes, Lex Nederbragt, and Tracy K. Teal)

Some thoughts about writing a survey paper (by Lotzi Bölöni)
How to write survey or review papers (by Barton P. Miller)

From Data to Viz
Fundamentals of Data Visualization (by Claus O. Wilke)

How to Give a Good Research Talk (by Simon Peyton Jones et al.)
Giving a technical presentation (giving a talk) (by Michael Ernst)
Hints for Giving a Good SURF, REU, etc. Talk
How to Give a Talk (by Bill Freeman, Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola)
Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations (by Philip E. Bourne)
How to Give a Bad talk (by J. Ousterhout, T. Anderson, D. Patterson, channeled by M. Dahlin)
How to Give a Bad Practice Talk (by Milo M. K. Martin)
Bad Talk, Good Talk (by David G Messerschmitt)

Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
Making a technical poster (by Michael Ernst)
Creating a Poster (from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Poster Design Guide (from The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication)
How to Create a Research Poster

Upcoming ACM conferences
Picking publication targets (by Carlos Baquero)

Google Scholar Metrics
Advice for first-time conference attendees (by David Notkin)
Conference Etiquette (by Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood)
Attending an Academic Conference (by by Michael Ernst)