写好的10条建议.ppt

Top-10 tips for writing a paper Jim Kurose Department of Computer Science University 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 rather what you show, new ideas, new insights why interesting, 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 themes/ideas first, then go into detail context, context, context even when going into detail … write top down! 3 Introduction: crucial, formulaic if reader not excited by intro, paper is lost recipe: para. 1: motivation: broadly, what is problem area, why important? para. 2: narrow down: what is problem you specifically consider para. 3: “In the paper, we ….”: most crucial paragraph, tell your elevator pitch para. 4: how different/better/relates to other work para. 5: “The remainder of this paper is structured as follows” 4. Master the basics of organized writing paragraph = ordered set of topically-related sentences lead sentence sets context for paragraph might tie to previous paragraph sentences in paragraph should have logical narrative flow, relating to theme/topic don’t mix tenses in descriptive text one 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 to write less readers shouldn’t have to work won’t “dig” to get story, understand context, results need textual signposts to know where ‘story” is going, context to know where they are good: “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? write for reader, not for yourself 6. Put yourself in place of the reader page upon page of