Dear student, First of all, thank you for your interest in research and enthusiasm in helping with my work. I hope through this writing and my teaching elsewhere, the experience will help you beyond the goal of getting pubs for CV purposes. I hope that you will find some fun in the process and struggle, and that you will learn to be a more strategic and precise thinker and writer—this, of course, is helpful in clinical medicine, more research, or even beyond in business and politics. Let this baseline be the north star in guiding your aim: > "The reviewer was thoroughly impressed [that the work was] methodologically rigorous and a pleasure to read." Whether your results are positive or negative, significant or small, paying great attention to details to ensure the rigor of your work and the quality of your writing **will take you very far**. To that point, I recommend reviewing these resources and applying what they teach: - How to convince others that your work is worth publishing/reading: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM&t=2s) - How to communicate your point to everyone: [https://sites.duke.edu/scientificwriting/orwells-6-rules/](https://sites.duke.edu/scientificwriting/orwells-6-rules/) from Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" Looking forward to working together, [Cuong P. Luu](https://cpluu.netlify.app/) P.S. If we have talked, you may have reflected that my approach is somewhat eccentric, too philosophical. Though, if you are aiming higher, trying to find some meanings, I encourage you to check out the words of these old people that I listen to: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&list=WL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxoCnxlxpIk