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1、Top-10 tips for writing a paper,Jim KuroseDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts,2006 CoNEXT student workshop panel,what is the“elevator pitch”of your story?,1:Every paper tells a story,the story is not what you did,but ratherwhat you show,new ideas,new insightswhy interesting,imp
2、ortant?why is the story of interest to others?universal truths,hot topic,surprises or unexpected results?know your story!,elevator pitch=summary that is short enough to give during an elevator ride,2.Write top down,computer scientists(and most human beings)think this way!state broad themes/ideas fir
3、st,then go into detailcontext,context,contexteven when going into detail write top down!,3 Introduction:crucial,formulaic,if reader not excited by intro,paper is lostrecipe:para.1:motivation:broadly,what is problem area,why important?para.2:narrow down:what is problem you specifically considerpara.3
4、:“In the paper,we.”:most crucial paragraph,tell your elevator pitchpara.4:how different/better/relates to other workpara.5:“The remainder of this paper is structured as follows”,4.Master the basics of organized writing,paragraph=ordered set of topically-related sentenceslead sentencesets context for
5、 paragraphmight tie to previous paragraphsentences in paragraph should have logical narrative flow,relating to theme/topicdont mix tenses in descriptive textone sentence paragraph:warning!,5.Put yourself in place of the reader,less is more:“I would have sent you less if I had had time”take the time
6、to write lessreaders shouldnt have to workwont“dig”to get story,understand context,resultsneed textual signposts to know where story”is going,context to know where they aregood:“e.g.,Having seen that let us next develop a model for.Let Z be.”bad:“Let Z be”what does reader know/not know,want/not want
7、?write for reader,not for yourself,6.Put yourself in place of the reader,page upon page of dense text is no fun to readavoid cramped feeling of tiny fonts,small marginscreate openess with white space:figures,listsenough context/information for reader to understand what you write?no one has as much b
8、ackground/content as youno one can read your mindall terms/notation defined?,7.No one(not even your mother)is as interested in this topic as you,so you had better be(or appear)interestedtell readers why they should be interested in your“story”dont overload reader with 40 graphs:think about main poin
9、ts you want to convey with graphscant explore entire parameter spacedont overload reader with pages of equationsput long derivations/proofs in appendix,provide sketch in body of paper,8.State the results carefully,clearly state assumptions(see overstate/understate your results)experiment/simulation
10、description:enough info to nearly recreate experiment/descriptionsimulation/measurements:statistical properties of your results(e.g.,confidence intervals)are results presented representative?or just a corner case that makes the point you want to make,9.Dont overstate/understate your results,overstat
11、ement mistake:“We show that X is prevalent in the Internet”“We show that X is better than Y”when only actually shown for one/small/limited casesunderstatement mistake:fail to consider broader implications of your workif your result is small,interest will be small“rock the world”,10.Study the art of
12、writing,writing well gives you an“unfair advantage”writing well matters in getting your work published in top venueshighly recommended:The Elements of Style,W.Strunk,E.B.White,Macmillan Publishing,1979Writing for Computer Science:The Art of Effective Communication,Justin Sobel,Springer 1997.who do y
13、ou think are the best writers in your area:study their style,11.Good writing takes times,give yourself time to reflect,write,review,refinegive others a chance to read/review and provide feedbackget a readers point of viewfind a good writer/editor to critique your writingstarting a paper three days before the deadline,while results are still being generated,is a non-starter,
