Here are three somewhat related posts from Rob Hyndman, Professor of Statistics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. Rob blogs at Hyndsight.
I liked them all, and I commend them to you:
- Giving a Research Seminar (2008)
 - Attending Research Seminars (2009)
 - Asking Good Questions (2013) - a guest post by Eran Raviv
 
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