Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. This exceptional volume explains what stands between you and fulfilling long-term research career. Bringing the key survival skills into focus, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! proposes a rational approach to establishing yourself as a scientist. It offers sound advice of selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser, choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry, preparing for an employment interview, and defining a research program. This book will help you make your oral presentations effective, your journal articles compelling, and your grant proposals successful. A Ph.D. Is Not Enough should be required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science.

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What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and research results into high-quality articles, and publish them in highly competitive journals and conferences? What are effective ways to supervise graduate students so that they can establish themselves quickly in their research careers? In this book, Ling and Yang answer these questions in a step-by-step manner with specific and concrete examples from their first-hand research experience.

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《如何撰写和发表科技论文(第6版)(影印版)》于1979年首次出版后不断再版和重印，深受理工科学生和科研人员的欢迎，被全世界上百所大学列为科技写作方面的教科书或参考书。《如何撰写和发表科技论文》旨在帮助理工科学生和科研人员提高科技论文写作能力，使其论文更容易被国际期刊接收和发表。全书分为8编41章，清晰而准确地阐述了科技论文的各个要素、论文投稿和发表过程中应注意的事项、如何进行会议交流、准备会议摘要、口头陈述论文、撰写海报和会议报告以及基金申请书等其他文章的写作，涵盖了科学论文写作和发表的方方面面。对于理科学生和科研工作者具有重要的指导作用。

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