Title: How to write a scientific paper
1How to write a scientific paper
Literature Jeffrey A. Lee, The scientific
endeavor, 2000 Bruno Buchberger, Thinking
Speaking Writing
By Fausto Giunchiglia and Alessandro Tomasi
2Index
- Role of Papers
- Analysis of audience
- Analysis of kind of paper
- Defining Goals
- Structuring Papers
- Cores Grain Structure
- The Process
- Style
35. Structuring Papers (part two)
45. Structuring Papers
A
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Work out of main idea
- Details of main idea
- Conclusions
- Appendixes
B
C
D
E
F
55. Structuring Papers
D
- Work out of main idea
- Details of main idea
- The description of
- the state of the art
- how to improve it
- Goal develop message
10 pages
65. Structuring Papers
E
- Conclusions
- The description of
- Related Work Optional, can also go at beginning
of paper after introduction - Conclusion
- Future Work Optional
- Goal argue that you have done what you wrote in
abstract, title,
1 page
75. Structuring Papers
- Related work
- For each system
- 3 lines to describe what it does
- 3-10 lines to argue why how you do better
85. Structuring Papers
- Appendixes and Footnotes
F
- Material not necessary in order to understand
- the paper but useful
- references
- proof
- code
95. Structuring Papers
- Appendixes and Footnotes
F
- References evolves and should be written
- in parallel with the other sections of the
Paper - Other appendixes should be written last when
Paper - (Almost) finished
- Goal show you know state of the art. Define your
state of the art.
105. Structuring Papers
- Homomorphic Property
- describe the same idea
- at different levels of abstraction
115. Structuring Papers
Different parts of the paper have different
audience Title, Abstract, Introduction for
people who have to decide whether they want to
read the paper
- Work out of main idea, Details of main idea
- for people who want to use results
- for people who want to extend/improve results
126. Cores Grain Structure of papers
136. Cores Grain Structure of papers
- write one section at the time
- paragraphs are the structure of the section
- lengths must be appropriate (3-6 paragraphs for
page) - in one section paragraphs must be homogenous
- sentences are the structure of the paragraph
146. Cores Grain Structure of papers
Example Introduction P1 Context P2 Problem P3
Solution P4 Why new P5 structure of paper
156. Cores Grain Structure of papers
Homomorphic Property New line if and only if is
needed
167. The Process
177. The Process
Paper Publishing
Orange Arrows something is wrong
2.2 Analysis of Readers
Feedback from Peer Review
2.3 Defining Goals
2.4.1 Structuring Papers Coarse Grained
Feedback from Friends
2.4.2 Structuring Papers Fine Grained
Paper Finished
188. The Style
198. The Style
- same type of font
- high quality of English (do you know native
speakers) - simplified drawings
- good references
- good notation
- use either I/we or neutral form
208. The Style
- references Author/date style
- In text (Graburn 1989) or (Dann and Cohen 1991
Smith 1987). - Reference list in alphabetical order.
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versus Compiled, Content versus Form, Some
Distinctions in Knowledge Systems Research. IEEE
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Decision Support Systems. Ellis Horwood,
Chichester, 1989. - Rozenblit J.W. and Zeigler B.P. Entity-based
Structures for Modeling and Experimental Frame
Construction. In Elzas M.S., Ören T.I., and
Zeigler B.P. (eds.) Modeling and Simulation
Methodology in the Artificial Intelligence Era.
North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 195-210, 1986.