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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?