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==For students== | |||
===Sections you should have=== | |||
* Background | |||
* Prior work | |||
* What you did | |||
* Results and Evaluation. (Be sure to *explain* how you evaluated what you did, and why this evaluation is valid.) | |||
* Summary | |||
===Formatting=== | |||
* Include headers on pages 2-Last with Name, the date, and course | |||
* Include footer on every page with page number | |||
* Sections should be numbered | |||
===On finding references=== | |||
Instead of typing search terms into Google, try: | |||
* [https://dl.acm.org ACM Digital Library] | |||
* [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp IEEE Xplore] | |||
* [https://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar] | |||
===On references=== | |||
* References should appear *in the text* of what you write as footnotes or end-notes. | |||
* There is no need to include a list of "sources" at the end of your paper; your bibliography is the list of references | |||
* References should be in ACM or IEEE style. Be sure to include author(s), title, publication venue, and date. Do not include just a URL. | * References should be in ACM or IEEE style. Be sure to include author(s), title, publication venue, and date. Do not include just a URL. | ||
* If you are writing a literature review, you should discuss how you found your references, including your search terms and the venues that you searched, so that you can claim that you have performed a *systematic* literature review. | |||
* Reference every source that you use, no matter how trivial. | * Reference every source that you use, no matter how trivial. | ||
* | * If your reference is more than 20 pages, include the page number of where the specific item was found. | ||
==For Faculty== | |||
* Don't write what the papers do wrong, write how they could be improved. | * Don't write what the papers do wrong, write how they could be improved. | ||
Latest revision as of 07:20, 7 March 2020
For students
Sections you should have
- Background
- Prior work
- What you did
- Results and Evaluation. (Be sure to *explain* how you evaluated what you did, and why this evaluation is valid.)
- Summary
Formatting
- Include headers on pages 2-Last with Name, the date, and course
- Include footer on every page with page number
- Sections should be numbered
On finding references
Instead of typing search terms into Google, try:
On references
- References should appear *in the text* of what you write as footnotes or end-notes.
- There is no need to include a list of "sources" at the end of your paper; your bibliography is the list of references
- References should be in ACM or IEEE style. Be sure to include author(s), title, publication venue, and date. Do not include just a URL.
- If you are writing a literature review, you should discuss how you found your references, including your search terms and the venues that you searched, so that you can claim that you have performed a *systematic* literature review.
- Reference every source that you use, no matter how trivial.
- If your reference is more than 20 pages, include the page number of where the specific item was found.
For Faculty
- Don't write what the papers do wrong, write how they could be improved.
