When choosing a tutor, we need to consider a variety of factors, mainly including scientific research ability (reflected in English papers and first authors), scientific research funding, personality, professional title, industry influence, age, social status and so on.
Whether the tutor is good or not is a consideration, but the tutor is not good or bad, only suitable!
On this basis, obtain the information of teachers in their professional direction.
Tutor information can be obtained in the following ways:
Introduction of teachers in professional fields on the school website.
Search the tutor's graduation school, research funding, research direction, contact information and other information through the website. These introductions may be brief, and some of them are even outdated, but preliminary screening can be achieved through this method.
School students exchange group information.
Communicate with teachers' students or senior students.
Ask master tutors to recommend relevant tutors according to their own goals.
You can also determine the general tutor group according to your own interests.
The official magazine of the association. You can learn about the latest composition of the society Committee and the composition of the editorial board, which can generally reflect its academic strength.
The annual meeting of each society. Here, you can listen to many lectures of doctoral supervisors and learn about their research directions on the spot: people who can give conference reports on a certain topic for many years in a row generally have clear and distinct research directions.
Various professional rankings.
Literature retrieval.
Inquire through people you know.
Specify some teachers according to the information, and then contact these designated teachers by email or telephone. [Page]
Second, the time to contact the tutor
Enlightenment education suggests not to contact the tutor in April-May. Because many graduate students' graduation defense happened at this time. The tutor is very busy. March is not good either, because it is the key stage before the second exam for postgraduate entrance examination. Some tutors avoid too much contact with students. At other times, you can basically contact your tutor.
If you are calling, it is best to choose when the tutor is in the office. For example, 90: 00 a.m. and 3: 00 p.m., of course, it's not impossible if you have to call at night. But it is better to be around nine o'clock. What needs to be clear is that the schedule of the tutor is different from that of the general lecturer.
If you go to see your tutor in person, you must go to the office during the day.
Third, how to contact the tutor
Contacting the tutor can determine the tutor's attitude and the strength of applying for the exam, and help you correctly judge the situation.
The instructor who explicitly refuses should not reconsider, and his attitude is ambiguous or not enthusiastic. So introduce the contact information.
1, send mail
E-mail is the first step to contact your tutor. Through simple self-introduction, your tutor can get to know you more comprehensively and express his admiration for your tutor. But this is not the best way to close the relationship with the tutor, and asking related professional questions is a better way to cut in. This kind of inquiry is easy to attract the attention of the tutor and lead to mutual communication, leaving room for further communication.
2. Telephone contact
The question is how to ensure that the tutor can answer the phone conveniently. How to transmit the picture information to the tutor? How to ensure that the call will not be interrupted?
3. SMS
How can you make yourself clear in just a few dozen crosses? How to ensure that your news is not overwhelmed by other news? Will the tutor read the text messages of strangers carefully? Will you watch and forget to call you back? [Page]
4. Go to the tutor unit to visit the tutor.
If you have a capable person to introduce you, you think you are eloquent and can do it, but you should pay attention to the premise; Never go by force without the consent of your tutor. This is likely to backfire, indicating that you are pretending (don't you think you can tell when I come to your company).
5. See your tutor at the meeting.
Same as above, but you must have a competent person to introduce you and you don't have stage fright, and you must make an appointment in advance. You must not hit it off with the introducer and walk quietly; It is impolite not to make a forced appointment or intercept halfway, and the effect can be imagined.
6. Meet the tutor at the meeting
This is a special way of contact. If there is an academic conference, the tutor will give a report. According to domestic practice, the conference group will be responsible for the shuttle.
If you really want to see the tutor, you should actively join the conference group and take the initiative to pick up the tutor. On the way to and from the airport and hotel, it usually takes at least 40 minutes to talk.
Only you two, don't interfere; Out of courtesy, everyone must communicate; Mentor has nowhere to run!
Of course, you should also be fully prepared: a bottle of water is a must, be fully prepared professionally, and show yourself in an all-round way: professional, treating people and so on.