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Anyone doing Psychology/Education? By any chance, do you have access to:
Bloom, B.S., et al, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook I: Cognitive Domain,
Longmans, Green and Company, 1956.

Hopefully someone has
:-(

So there's this teaching assistant position available and it will pay $30 per hour. But, you can only work maximum 5 hours per week. So that means $30 * 5 * 4 = $600.

Would you do it?

Hi Anz07.

Could I suggest taking a 1 - 2 week long break? Maybe you're just exhausted? Exercising could help as well; doing cardio refreshes my mind and gives me some new ideas as well :D

How about your supervisor; have you talked to them about this? Are they approachable?

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I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly; lets say that I have this paper talking about X. Although X does overlap with my research work, I'm only interested with a tiny amount of what they are mentioning, and that tiny amount of material is not the real theme of X; lets call it a.1. The real topic of X would be X.1, X.2, X.3, etc

Can I cite a.1 and mention something like this,
"According to [X], a.1 ... "

Would this be ok? I'm worried that some people will say; "NO! X did not say that, the whole idea of the paper is X1, X2 and X3. You have to look at the paper as bla bla bla".

Would I face such things? :-(

Alright, first of all, who are 'they'? Who are the people who told you to do this? Could you clarify? Is it part of your PhD research objective to modify the software? What did your Prof. say about the matter?

Well, from what you've stated, I think you have a wealth of information. You could compare those software and highlight their weaknesses?

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Hello,

Well, I'm in the midst of writing a paper for publication and I was just wondering, how hard is it to send and publish a research paper for conferences or journals?

I'm at the moment struggling to write the paper as I have still A LOT of reading, summarizing and comparing to do, and I would think this is normal? Or I'm just doing it wrongly :/

How does one present at a conference? Is it just in front of a small group of people or in front of hundreds of people?

Sorry; I'm still a noob at this :/

Thanks everyone for the replies!

@Emma8704: lol, I think, I have somewhat of the same situation.

@Larrydavid: I completely agree Larry. They are humans too and I think I'm lucky to have a Sup that wants to get to know me better. But, I am, a rather private person; I tend to keep things to myself. The only time I know that I would share personal stuff is when I know it is not really important to keep it personally or something that I would like to share.

@Dalmation: Yes, I am somewhat of a private person really.

@Lughna: *high five*

@Screamingaddabs: I have learned from past experience that it's better to keep certain things to myself. I can discuss work and the problems that I'm facing, but not about personal lives. I don't know; it's just me I guess.

@Skig: Maybe I'm just being paranoid lol.

But thanks everyone for the kind replies : )

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So it has been almost a year now doing my PhD and I have been very discreet about my personal stuff to my supervisor;;; I just want to be professional and keep it that way. But during one of the discussions, the supervisor asked me to tell more about myself since he doesn't really know me other than me 'as a research student' and 'my work' - so it seems I'm all work to him lol.

I did tell the supervisor about me and slightly about my background (what I do during my spare time, random family stuff, etc) and the 'manner of my speech' (he found me to have a slight accent lol), he asked me more but I declined, but he joked not to worry and he's not judging.

Would this be a good sign? Any tips or advice is appreciated.