Timeline for What is the proper way to ask for ideas for a research topic to a professor on a different institution that I have no connection with?
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:47 | comment | added | physshyp | anyway thanks a lot for your advices. Espcially about showning that you are serious, and determined to finish the project. I will try to send another email to another expert. Hope it works. Also, I talked about this with my advisor and the other people in the institution they all recomend me to find an expert. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:44 | comment | added | physshyp | yes, I am not at all familiar. however, that's the thing, without a definite problem or even narrowing down the topic. where do I start to familiarize my self? It would literally take 2 years to really be familiar. I mean I am not sure If I can express my self clearly but. The principle I follow is to learn while doing research not before. However, If I start to familiarize my self formally and rigorously. It would be really learning before starting research. I mean the topic is very broad. there are hundreds of papers. What I need is someone to help me to narrow it. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:37 | comment | added | Spark | Two weeks is nothing, to be honest. I spent a few good months reading papers before my first publication, but perhaps I’m a slow reader. See what are the latest publications in the field and work from there. The fact that you have so many questions means you’re not sufficiently familiar. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:32 | comment | added | physshyp | I also send that draft to three professors the response was not very good. (Only one of them responded after I asked a very specific question on their paper, and I didn't get any response after I asked a more general question) I also don't want to ruin my relationship with these people at the beginning, because they are the guys that define the field. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:27 | comment | added | physshyp | The professor is not in my institution. However, about the litreture reaserch, this was exactly what am I doing the last two weeks. I had 10 specific questions. But as I said, without any direction it is hard to eloborate this literature research. Now, I am justing reading to see what is done what is left. And I have taken notes for about 20 pages but I got start to get lost. As I said, I can formally start to learn that topic, but without any help to narrow down the topic, even starting to a formal learning is not very wise. I mean at least a minor direction from an expert would be very go | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:17 | history | edited | Spark | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added more constructive feedback
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 13:10 | history | answered | Spark | CC BY-SA 4.0 |