Writing papers

[nicola]

Here I am collecting general guidelines/tips to write papers.

Paper writing

0) Masterplan phase

• What's the target audience?
• What's my key message?
• How do I structure my argument?
• What do I have?

1) Fill up

• Write a possible structure
• Fill up with relevant content (in following order):
  • Go through Abstract questions
  • Related Work
  • Main Body
  • Implementation
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Abstract

2) Editing

• Print
• Take notes on the print
• Repeat (2)

Writing the abstract (see here)

• Motivation: Why do we care about the problem and the results?
• Problem statement: What problem are you trying to solve?
• Approach: How did you go about solving or making progress on the problem? Did you use simulation, analytic models, prototype construction, or analysis of field data for an actual product?
• Results: What's the answer?
• Conclusions: What are the implications of your answer? Is it going to change the world (unlikely), be a significant "win", be a nice hack, or simply serve as a road sign indicating that this path is a waste of time (all of the previous results are useful)?

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Some of these notes are from real life and phdtalk