It is important to distinguish the activity of the paper-
writing, proposalwriting, and thesis-writing as distinct from
the goals themselves. That is, writing a paper is not the goal
itself. Rather the goal, for example, may be the understanding
of some new scientific process or some engineering apparatus.
The papers are simply milestones or road markers along the way
that are prepared in order to chart the progress. It is
important not to confuse these approaches and to set appropriate
goals. In this very brief chapter we propose several goal
horizons. “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to
lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself,”
Thomas J. Watson. Today’s goals. Write them down. This year’s
goals