1. Academic Ethics for Students
Bo Zhang, Ph.D., P.E.
Chutian Scholar Distinguished Professor
School of Chemical Engineering & Pharmacy
Wuhan Institute of Technology

2. Laboratory Notebook Always get you lab notebooks from our program
The data recorded on each lab notebook is owned by the University, and the University may use the records for its activities such as auditing and publications.
You may keep your own copy.
Once you leave the institute, you need to leave all your lab notebooks in the lab.

3. Publication
We encourage that all graduate students write their own manuscripts:
Write Review Articles at the beginning, when the students are reading others’ articles and doing literature review.
Write Research Articles during your experimental studies, writing your thesis, and after your defense.

4. Writing Manuscript Students
Publications will benefit your future career
Use your manuscripts to compose the thesis to get the degree
Faculty
Progress report to the funding agency
Need to graduate you
Disseminate research results, and leave publication records

5. Why I do/can NOT write a manuscript - when you are still in our program
I don’t know how to write a paper. What is the review article? No idea……
Nothing is easy.
Do your literature review! Find out the difference between a review article and a research article.
Copy the format from the literature, NOT the content.

6. Why I do/can not write a manuscript - when you are still in our program
No time………………
If you have one week, can you compose an abstract?
If you have 3 days, can you extend the abstract to a one-page paper?
If you have one week, can you compose a 3-4 pages paper?
If you have two months, can you finish your thesis, and get the degree?
Yes, No time is often an excuse.

7. Copyright
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed.
Simply speaking, you own the copyright of what you write, but you do not own the records belonging to the University.

8. What? if I do not write a manuscript during study period and after graduation
We encourage you to write!!!
You already got the degree, and are busy with the job.
But always you will feel that your experimental results are so significant, and the major contribution to the scientific field, specially after graduation.
And you still do/can NOT write a manuscript.
Then let’s discuss the Authorship

9. Authorship
The first author has to write the first draft, and contribute at least 50% of experimental results.
I want to the first author, but I want my adviser or my colleague to write it….
Maybe a Yes, if you contribute 50% write-up from your thesis, and 50% of experimental results.
If your adviser or colleague did all writings, cleaned up your mess, and contributed 50% of experimental results, then what?
Contributions are feelings. But writing is an attitude.

10. Authorship
Discussing the authorship before the first draft even in an urgent circumstance.
If you do not write, you will lose the position as the first author.