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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 interesti
2、ng, important?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 th
3、emes/ideas first, 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 yo
4、u specifically considerpara. 3: “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-rela
5、ted sentenceslead sentencesets context for 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
6、sent you less if I had had time”take the time 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 .”b
7、ad: “Let Z be”what does reader know/not know, want/not want?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/informat
8、ion for reader to understand what you write?no one has as much background/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
9、 your “story”dont overload reader with 40 graphs: think about main points 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
10、 assumptions (see overstate/understate your results)experiment/simulation 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 make
11、s the point you want to make,9. Dont overstate/understate your results,overstatement 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
12、 your result is small, interest will be small“rock the world”,10. Study the art of 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 f
13、or Computer Science: The Art of Effective Communication, Justin Sobel, Springer 1997. who do you 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,
