how to write good papers
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TIPSTO WRITE GOOD PAPERS
Prof. D. P. Mishra
Deptt. Of Comp. Sci. & EnggBhilai Institute of Technology, Durg
Chhattisgarh - India
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Publishing Research1
How to Write Well2
Things to Avoid3
Overview
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Publishing Research
Come up with hypothesis.
Research it.
Collect data. Write paper.
Submit it quickly to a journal.
Become famous!
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How to Write Well
Use short sentences no more than 15 words.
Work over months or years!
Write 1,000,00 words. Publish the best 1,000 words.
Use a spell checker. Just do it.
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Things to Avoid
Do not use negations.
Avoid the future tense (the word "will" in English)
Avoid temporal words such as now" ornext".
Most adverbs such as "very are useless in paper
Keep your emotions in check: the reader may not
care for your surprise, your pleasure or your
sadness.
Use parenthesis and footnotes sparingly.
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Be Precise .
Avoid: MethodA is much better than
method B.
Do: MethodA is 60% faster than method
B." Da
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Be Precise ..
Avoid : The speed of test A depends on
X.
Do: TestA is faster when X is larger."
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Be Precise
Avoid: It was shown that test A is faster."
Do: We showed that test A was faster."
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Keep it Simple
Employ uncomplicated terms.
Use simple words.
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Be assertive without lying
Avoid: TestA might be the best
approach."
Do: We know twelve tests. A is thefastest of them."
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Use Strong Verbs
Avoid: We made use of categorization."
Do:We
categorized."
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How to Write Mathematics
Variables are in italics: ax = b,
Nouns or named functions are not: sin2 x = F
timing.
Be consistent.
Use a table of notation if you must.
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Begin Sentence in English
Avoid: is larger than one
Do:The
parameter
is larger than one."
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Figures
No bitmaps(JPEG,PNG,GIF)
Fonts must be large enough
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How to Cite
Avoid: [2] proved that X = B."
Do: John et al. [2] proved that X = B."
Avoid: In (Lemire, 2008), we proved that X = B"
Do: We proved that X = B (Lemire, 2008)."
Do: Lemire (2008) proved that X = B."
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What to CITE
Papers you have used.
Papers you might have used.
Papers citing the papers you have used. All of your competitors.
People like to be cited. Be generous!
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Self plagiarism
Should you cite your own related work?
Absolutely! Otherwise, you are guilty of self-plagiarism.
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QUESTIONS?
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