How to write a paper

1. How to write a paper Dr. Bernard Chen Ph.D. University of Central Arkansas Fall 2010

2. Paper Format • There are two major different types: • IEEE two column format • Many other single column format

3. Paper Contents • Main Body: • Introduction • (Novel) Methods • Experimental Setup • Results • Conclusion • Extra: • Abstract • Future works • References

4. Introduction • Objective: • Make reader understand the basic information, which includes background, problems, related literatures, and brief idea of your solution • This part should include: • Brief introduce the topics you are involved in • Changeless • Previous works (important!!!, at least 10 references) • Brief solution to this paper • Organization of the paper

5. Methods • Objective: • Make readers understand how you solve the problem • This part should include: • Previous methods used in the same problem (if any) • Your (novel) approach

6. Experimental Setup • Objective: • Describe how you setup your experiment • This part should include: • Input dataset (training) • All Equations • Distance measure • Evaluation quations • … • Parameter setups

7. Results • Objective: • Show why your approach is a good one • This part should include: • Comparison • Figures (title on bottom) • Tables (title on top) • And description your results in easy-understanding English

8. Conclusion • Objective: • Final summarize • This part should include: • Remind readers that this is a good paper

9. Others • Reference • Look out the format • Future works • You should have some ideas already • Abstract • Last work!!