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1、How to write a great research paper Simon Peyton Jones Microsoft Research, Cambridge Writing papers is a skill ?Many papers are badly written ?Good writing is a skill you can learn ?Its a skill that is worth learning: ?You will get more brownie points (more papers accepted etc) ?Your ideas will have
2、 more impact ?You will have better ideas Increasing importance Writing papers: model 1 IdeaDo researchWrite paper Writing papers: model 2 IdeaDo researchWrite paper IdeaWrite paperDo research ?Forces us to be clear, focused ?Crystallises what we dont understand ?Opens the way to dialogue with others
3、: reality check, critique, and collaboration Do not be intimidated Write a paper, and give a talk, about any idea, no matter how weedy and insignificant it may seem to you FallacyYou need to have a fantastic idea before you can write a paper. (Everyone else seems to.) Do not be intimidated Write a p
4、aper, and give a talk, about any idea, no matter how insignificant it may seem to you ?Writing the paper is how you develop the idea in the first place ?It usually turns out to be more interesting and challenging that it seemed at first The purpose of your paper Why bother? Good papers and talks are
5、 a fundamental part of research excellence Fallacy we write papers and give talks mainly to impress others, gain recognition, and get promoted Papers communicate ideas ?Your goal: to infect the mind of your reader with your idea, like a virus ?Papers are far more durable than programs (think Mozart)
6、 The greatest ideas are (literally) worthless if you keep them to yourself The Idea ?Figure out what your idea is ?Make certain that the reader is in no doubt what the idea is. Be 100% explicit: ?“The main idea of this paper is.” ?“In this section we present the main contributions of the paper.” ?Ma
7、ny papers contain good ideas, but do not distil what they are. Idea A re-usable insight, useful to the reader One ping ?Your paper should have just one “ping”: one clear, sharp idea ?Read your paper again: can you hear the “ping”? ?You may not know exactly what the ping is when you start writing; bu
8、t you must know when you finish ?If you have lots of ideas, write lots of papers Thanks to Joe Touch for “one ping” The purpose of your paper is not. To describe the WizWoz system ? Your reader does not have a WizWoz ? She is primarily interested in re-usable brain-stuff, not executable artefacts Yo
9、ur narrative flow ?Here is a problem ?Its an interesting problem ?Its an unsolved problem ?Here is my idea ?My idea works (details, data) ?Heres how my idea compares to other peoples approaches I wish I knew how to solve that! I see how that works. Ingenious! Structure (conference paper) ?Title (100
10、0 readers) ?Abstract (4 sentences, 100 readers) ?Introduction (1 page, 100 readers) ?The problem (1 page, 10 readers) ?My idea (2 pages, 10 readers) ?The details (5 pages, 3 readers) ?Related work (1-2 pages, 10 readers) ?Conclusions and further work (0.5 pages) The abstract ?I usually write the abs
11、tract last ?Used by program committee members to decide which papers to read ?Four sentences Kent Beck 1.State the problem 2.Say why its an interesting problem 3.Say what your solution achieves 4.Say what follows from your solution Example 1.Many papers are badly written and hard to understand 2.Thi
12、s is a pity, because their good ideas may go unappreciated 3.Following simple guidelines can dramatically improve the quality of your papers 4.Your work will be used more, and the feedback you get from others will in turn improve your research Structure ?Abstract (4 sentences) ?Introduction (1 page)
13、 ?The problem (1 page) ?My idea (2 pages) ?The details (5 pages) ?Related work (1-2 pages) ?Conclusions and further work (0.5 pages) The introduction (1 page) 1.Describe the problem 2.State your contributions .and that is all ONE PAGE! Describe the problem Use an example to introduc e the problem St
14、ate your contributions ?Write the list of contributions first ?The list of contributions drives the entire paper: the paper substantiates the claims you have made ?Reader thinks “gosh, if they can really deliver this, thats be exciting; Id better read on” State your contributions Bulleted list of co
15、ntributions Do not leave the reader to guess what your contributions are! Contributions should be refutable NO!YES! We describe the WizWoz system. It is really cool. We give the syntax and semantics of a language that supports concurrent processes (Section 3). Its innovative features are. We study i
16、ts propertiesWe prove that the type system is sound, and that type checking is decidable (Section 4) We have used WizWoz in practice We have built a GUI toolkit in WizWoz, and used it to implement a text editor (Section 5). The result is half the length of the Java version. No “rest of this paper is.” ?Not: ?Instead, use forward references from the narrative in the introduction. The introduction (including the contributions) shou
