Wisiconsin大学的一个教授对自己研究生的每周报告要求

Wisiconsin大学的一个教授对自己研究生的每周报告要求

       今天在网上查找论文资料,在Wisiconsin大学的graphics lab的网站上边发现了一片文章,是该实验室的Mike Gleicher教授对自己学生的研究报告要求,看完之后觉的外国的研究者确实比较踏实和认真,对学生也比较负责.其实我们实验室研究小组的组长也要求我们自己定时写研究小节,可是感觉好像老是落实不下去,并且大家好像都不愿意写,包括我自己,看来这个其实还是一个人都有惰性,关键是自己从制度上把人这种惰性打掉,也许该向我的导师建议我们实验室是不是也采用相同的方法^_^,我先自己试一试,一定要坚持下来.下边把网页的原文转载过来;

资料来源(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~gleicher/Advice/status-reports.htm)

Status Reports for Mike Gleicher's Students

If you work for me (for example, as an RA or an undergrad directed study) you must send me a status report every week.

I have found this to be a useful tool not just for the "reviewer" (e.g. me reading this), but also for the person writing it. I really believe if you spend 15 minutes doing this every week, you will be more productive in the long run.

One of the things that I have found over the years is that its quite easy to forget what you've accomplished, forget what you were trying to do, forget to think about what you should be doing, ... I, therefore, have found it really useful to write periodic reports that force me to think about these things, and leave a record so I can remember what I've been doing. The form of this report is designed to foster that kind of thought, and to help identify problems that may crop up.

Your report must be sent to me by email on Friday of each week. Please send it with the title "<NAME>'s status report for 9/1/2005 " (important: make sure you have your name and the date in the report since I get a bunch of these). Be sure to save a copy for yourself (so at the end of a semester we can look back at them).

Your report should have the following following 6 sections:

1. What were my goals for this week?
2. What did I accomplish this week?
3. Why are numbers 1 and 2 different?
4. What are my goals for next week?
5. How does this fit in to my bigger picture? How does #4 fit into my longer term goals? (What are the longer term goals?) What deadlines are looming beyond the week horizon?
6. What did I read this week?

Some comments on these questions:

• The time management literature (especially the books by Covey) say that a week is the right size time chunk to do planning at: days are too "micro", months are too long.
• However, working along week by week, its way too easy to lose track of the big picture. The "macro" planning process is seperate from the weekly report. We should do semester scale planning as well, but that is independent of the weekly report.
• Number 1 is not necessarily the previous weeks #4 - in practice, goals change over time.
• It's best to be honest about number 3 - it's a great place to identify roadblocks that come up.
• Question #5 is designed to help reconnect to the big picture. I left it out initially from my suggested format. It's not meant to take the place of periodic long-term planning.
• Question #6 is a new addition. It is added for a number of reasons. First, I had been concerned that many people get so caught up in hacking or the specific thing they are doing that they aren't reading - which is an important part of research. Second, I am not getting to read as much as I would like, so this is a way for me to hear about more stuff vicariously. As far as reading, I have a recommendation on bibliographies. For the purposes of the status report DON'T PUT THE WHOLE CITATION. Just give me enough information so I have an idea of what it is. For example:

Interactive Video Cutout, SIGGRAPH 2005

Is totally sufficient.

• Putting non-research stuff in 1-5 is a good idea. For exmaple, its good to know that you have an examduring the week so you might not get as much research work done, or that you didn't get enough work done on your class project because you're busy doing research. I'm less interested in non-research related readings (#6) unless you feel that it is relevant.