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Effective Paper Reviewing: Providing Polite and Helpful Feedback

This article provides guidelines on how to review a paper, including summarizing the paper, identifying its strengths and weaknesses, giving reasons for recommendations, and providing references to related work. It also emphasizes the importance of choosing a good research problem and writing a good report.

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Effective Paper Reviewing: Providing Polite and Helpful Feedback

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  1. COMP 7370 Advanced Computer and Network SecurityHomework 2 Feedback Dr. Xiao Qin Auburn Universityhttp://www.eng.auburn.edu/~xqin xqin@auburn.edu Spring, 2011

  2. Goals of Homework 2 Homework 2 vs. Paper reviewing Homework 2 vs. Choosing a research problem

  3. How to review a paper? • Be polite and helpful for improving the paper • One or two sentences summarizing the paper • The strengths and weaknesses of the paper • Your comments give the reasons for your recommendation • If you feel the author(s) should be aware of related work, try to provide specific references • Try to give the kind of review you would like to receive for your own work • Keep the original paper you reviewed for a few months • Do not distribute unpublished papers Source:http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~mosse/review-process.html

  4. How to choose a good research problem? • This is the hardest, and most important, part of research! • The Goldilocks problem: • Not too hard, not too soft, not too hot, not too cold, not too big, not too small • Think, read, act, evaluate • And talk to everyone – not only your advisor • Passion or duty?

  5. Which reports do you like? This one

  6. Or this one? Why?

  7. How to write a good report? • Highlighted keywords • Meaningful headings and sub-headings • Bulleted lists • One idea per paragraph • users will skip over any additional ideas if they are not caught by the first few words in the paragraph • The inverted pyramid style, starting with the conclusion • half the word count (or less) than conventional writing Source:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

  8. How to identify open problems? • Unsolved problems/issues • Is the above one a good open problem?

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