• The Task of the Referee
• How Not to Review a Paper
• Common Pitfalls in Writing about Security and Privacy Human Subjects Experiments, and How to Avoid Them
• How (Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper 30 questions to help you write a better technical paper
• Identify the Champion

• How to Give a Bad Talk

• A Case of Academic Plagiarism
• Plagiarism in the Web
• Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science
• Multiple Submission
• Plagiarism, Copyright Violation, and Dual Publication: Are You Guilty

• Elements of Style
• Writing an Annotated Bibliography
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• Common Errors in English
• Postscript to PDF conversion
• Online Dictionary
• Online Dictionary/Thesaurus

• How to Choose a Research Topic Kent Seamons. Panel presentation at Sandia National Labs TITANS, 2013 with additions from Gene Spafford.

• Learning By Faith David Bednar, 2006
• Peer Instruction for Active Learning

A list of candidate papers to read this semester.

• Applying cognitive walkthroughs to more complex user interfaces: experiences, issues, and recommendations
• The Cognitive Walkthrough Method: A Practitioner’s Guide
• Cognitive walkthroughs: a method for theory-based evaluation of user interfaces
• What's the difference between a heuristic evaluation and a cognitive walkthrough

• The Password Life Cycle: User Behavior in Managing Passwords SOUPS 2014, Stobert & Biddle
• What do users really care about?: a comparison of usability problems found by users and experts on highly interactive websites
• Studying Password Use in the Wild SOUPS 2010, Inglesant & Sasse
• The True Cost of Unusable Password Policies CHI 2010 Inglesant & Sasse
• Towards understanding IT security professionals and their tools SOUPS 2007
• Teaching Classic Grounded Theory

• Heuristic Evaluation of User Interfaces
• Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation

• What Matters to Users SOUPS 2013 (online survey)
• Survey Guide University of Wisconsin
• US and Them ICSE 2014
• My Religious Aunt CHI 2014

• Sacrifice One For the Good of Many?: People Apply Different Moral Norms to Human and Robot Agents

• User Studies: Why, How, and When?
• A User Study of Off-the-Record Messaging SOUPS 2008 (Think Aloud)
• Crowdsourcing User Studies With Mechanical Turk
• A User Study of Security Warnings experiment with a null hypothesis
• Conducting Usable Security Studies: It's Complicated talk by Lorrie Faith Cranor

• Quantifying the User Experience