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<Section id="coadvising" header="How should coadvising work?">
<p
>I advise a lot of doctoral students, but also advise a lot of faculty
who advise doctoral students, and one of the most common areas of
concern that comes up is how to do co-advising well. I wouldn't say I'm
an expert on this, but I do feel like I know the challenges that arise.
Here are the questions I think are key for everyone in a co-advising
situation &mdash; co-advisors and co-advisees &mdash; to have shared
agreement on:</p
>

<ul>
<li
><strong
>How does each advisor see their role in the student's work and
success?</strong
> Are they compatible? In conflict? Some advisors might see students
as people who can accelerate their research focus; others might view
them as students who they are mentoring. Others still might view students
as collaborators. All three of these perspectives come with different
expectations and relationships, and so it's important for co-advisors
to come to some shared understanding about them.</li
>
<li
><strong
>Who is responsible for the long term funding with the student?
Is that fixed or dynamic?</strong
> This is key, because it shapes who feels responsible for resourcing
a PhD students' time, and offering the student certainty about their
funding stability.</li
>
<li
><strong
>Should both advisors always be a collaborator on a students'
work</strong
>. Or does that depend on the paper and project?. Authorship
expectations are wildly different between researchers, so these
should be stated and negotiated upfront.</li
>
<li
><strong
>When advisors' disagree on how a student should proceed, is it
the student's job to reconcile the disagreement?</strong
>. Are they free to choose without consequence from either advisor?
Or is it the advisors' job to come to consensus? Is that done with
or without the students' involvement? Everyone should agree on how
this happens.</li
>
<li
><strong
>When there is interpersonal conflict between advisors, how is a
student shielded from that?</strong
> Or is a student expected to be the mediator? (Not recommended).</li
>
</ul>

<p>What other questions do you think are important to answer?</p>
</Section>

<Section id="goodwriting" header="How can I become a good technical writer?">
<p>
When writing and reviewing scientific papers, there are a lot of
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