This page is meant for my students. It enumerates several points that I noticed I repeat for many of my students as I attempt to guide them down a path of research. These are mostly simple things, obvious in retrospect, but worth paying attention to.
PhD students are the primary targets of this advice, although much of it applies to MS students as well. I am of the view that research has not been conducted until it has been written up, hence the emphasis on papers in the first part of this document.