Academia Weekly Newsletter - Friday, June 27, 2014

Top new questions this week: How should bathroom breaks be handled during written exams to avoid cheating? It seems to me that it is impossible to prevent cheating (as in: communicating and getting help from outside) if one allows students to use the restroom during written classroom tests. Excluding … teaching university exams   asked by Federico Poloni 37 votes answered by Bart Arondson 49 votes Is it problematic to use a Wikipedia article I wrote in my PhD thesis? I'm working on a specific subject, and I thought that sharing my bibliographical and synthesis work from peer-reviewed journals on Wikipedia could be a good idea. Moreover, there is no Wikipedia entry … thesis plagiarism   asked by jeanrjc 26 votes answered by Piotr Migdal 33 votes How to correct plagiarism in the past? My situation is somewhat similar to this question, but I'm the plagiarizer. Six years ago I did my Master's degree by coursework at university X, and wrote the Master's thesis under supervision of … ethics plagiarism   asked by user17741 24 votes answered by rumtscho 12 votes Is it ethical to accept small gifts from students? Is it ethical to accept small gifts from students? In past years I have one or two students have given me small gifts, generally a box of chocolates. I judge the size of gifts on my internatinal beer … ethics etiquette gifts   asked by StrongBad 19 votes answered by Koldito 10 votes How to preempt plagiarism accusations In 2006, when I was still in grad school, I wrote a paper that went through the usual motions: I discussed it with my advisor, I presented it at a peer-reviewed conference, and then published it as a … publications plagiarism   asked by Koldito 18 votes answered by StrongBad 9 votes Re-using text from a grant proposal in a paper (or vice versa) I have a grant proposal that I'm ready to submit, and I would like to re-use a significant amount of the text (on the order of 5-8 pages) in a paper that I intend to submit to a journal for … publishing ethics grants plagiarism   asked by mweiss 17 votes answered by Peter Jansson 15 votes What should I do if the first author wants me to write the whole paper? I have finished three years of work in a Ph.D. program. I've published one conference paper as sole author, and have recently sent out another paper to a prestigious conference. I started a project … research authorship   asked by user37874 17 votes answered by Arno 26 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is it possible for reviewers to mistakenly reject a quality paper? If I am not wrong, turbo codes was submitted to the ICC conference and rejected but accepted later on. I want to know if there are other similar works (strong works) that were rejected at first but … research peer-review reference-request rejection   asked by x.y.z... 21 votes answered by ff524 46 votes PhD candidate vs PhD student I see researchers working on their PhD calling themselves PhD Candidates, other call themselves PhD students. What's the difference between a PhD Candidate and a PhD Student? According to two … phd naming   asked by Mohamed Khamis 23 votes answered by Jaap Eldering 10 votes Can you answer these? Apply for PhD positions with only one (or no) reference (letter of recommendation) After applying for a number of PhD positions I ended up with a surprisingly high rejection rate, and as little as 3 acceptances. Waiting for a positive answer from other labs (which I liked a lot … phd application recommendation-letter   asked by TheChymera 3 votes If I upload a draft of my paper to arXiv, will I still be able to publish in an IEEE or ACM publication? Since IEEE/ACM will eventually own the copyright of the papers they publish, and since they charge for access to papers, if I have a paper on arXiv is that a problem for them? publishing arxiv ieee acm   asked by horse hair 3 votes My professor gave me a bad grade and wouldn't discuss it further, I think some prejudice may be involved. How should a student proceed? Background: I was a senior at a very prestigious, high-ranking university in the US. At the time my GPA was around a 3.9 and had never had any issues with professors (and actually socialized with a … professors university etiquette   asked by blankip 2 votes

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