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*Written for students*
==For students==


Notes on writing final papers:
===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.
* Include page numbers
* 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.

Latest revision as of 08:20, 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.