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Tips
from Faculty, Staff and Students
(Excerpts
from Graduate School Orientation Seminars and meetings
at UMBC, UMCP, and UMB)
Do |
Don't |
| Use
Lifelines: Get to know department staff, fellow
graduate students, Dept. chair, graduate school
staff |
Disrespect
staff, be a hermit |
| Be
Patient, manage time effectively, select the right
advisor. |
Miss
class, forget to back up files, throw away notes,
sell books |
| Plan
Ahead, study proactively, keep up with readings,
get into study groups. |
Wait
to try to do work at the last minute, leave class
without understanding the material, bring undergraduate
habits (e.g. level of social activities) into grad
school |
Research
Subjects
Needed! Note, some of these positions provide money.
Please visit the PROMISE
Research Subjects page to find opportunities to
post notices about your research or to participate in
a paid or volunteer research study.
STATISTICS
Statistics
Notes (From Talithia Daniel, Ph.D. Student, Department
of Statistics, Rice University AGEP, 2004 PROMISE Presenter)
Data
description, Probability
(Please email promise@umbc.edu
to request copies of the Introduction, Discrete Random
Variables, Continuous Random Variables, and Sampling
Distributions)
http://www.stat.rice.edu/~jcnm/promise
[best viewed with Internet
Explorer] (created for PROMISE by Josue
Cabrera Noyola-Martinez, Ph.D. Student, Statistics,
Rice University, via Rice AGEP-PROMISE partnership)
WRITING
RESOURCES
Writing
Manual (An EXCELLENT, detailed resource from the
Hearing and Speech Sciences Dept. at UMCP. There are
some variations between disciplines, but everyone can
learn from these guidelines.)
Writing
your dissertation: Help from the Graduate Student
Development Committee of the Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers.
From
the 2005 seminar at UMCP: Visit
Dr. Ben Dean's All
But Dissertation Survival Guide
Graduate
student resources from the Society of Hispanic Engineers
(Courtesy of the SHPE Graduate Student
Development Committee-GSDC)
Academic
Integrity,
Citation references, Writing the Research Paper
Reference
materials on academic integrity and citations.Thanks
to Ronda Critchlow, UMBC graduate student, LLC, for
these materials.
Citation References:
Source: University
of Kansas Writing Guide
(Prepared by Ronda Critchlow)
IMPORTANT
NOTE TO STUDENTS:
- Before
choosing a writing style, check with your thesis advisor
to see what s/he recommends.
- If
no recommendation is given, use the style that your
advisor uses in her/his journal articles and papers.
Guaranteed
4.0 Learning System
Remember
your bullet points!
- BPR
and BPN: “Bullet
point” READING and “Bullet Point”
NOTES*
- BPC:
Bullet point CONCEPTS
- POH:
Go to your professors’ office hours or make
appointments.
Feel
free to make an appointment with Dr. Tull or a peer
mentor to discuss any of the points.
You
are encouraged to work in groups!. You don’t have
to limit to your group members to people who are exactly
like you or who are in your section. Consider sharing
costs to purchase supplemental texts, sharing time to
print out helpful hints on websites, etc. Do not underestimate
the power of “Strength in numbers.”
Good
luck on your exams, projects, assignments!
The
terms BPR, BRN, BPC, and POH are terms and concepts
belonging to the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System (http://www.guaranteed4.com).
The Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System was introduced to
the students at UMBC, UMB, and UM College Park at the
PROMISE SUCCESS 2003 Summer seminar Series, August 2003,
and at UM College Park, September 2003.
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