- Chapman, David, ed., "How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab," 1988.
- Patterson, David A., "How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia," 1997. ( PostScript 4 slides/page) ( PDF) ( PostScript)
Giving Presentations
- Kschischang, Frank, " Giving a Talk: Guidelines for the Preparation and Presentation of Technical Seminars," 1995.
- Leslie Lamport. " How to write a long formula." Formal Aspects of Computing, 6:580-584, 1994. Also appeared as SRC Research Report 119.
- Leslie Lamport. " How to write a proof." In Global Analysis in Modern Mathematics, pages 311-321. Publish or Perish, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., February 1993. A symposium in honor of Richard Palais' sixtieth birthday. (Also published as SRC Research Report 94.).
- Milutinovic, V., "The Best Method for Presentation of Research Results," 1996. ( PDF)
- Milutinovic, V., "A Good Method to Prepare and Use Transparencies for Research Presentations," 1997.
- Parberry, Ian, "How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students," 1993.