Writing for Computer Science,9781852338022

Writing for Computer Science

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781852338022
ISBN10: 1852338024
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-04-23
Publisher(s): Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Summary

The elements of good writing are an essential part of success in science. With comprehensive practical help for students and experienced researchers, Writing for Computer Science: - Gives extensive guidance for writing style and editing; - Presents sound practice for graphs, figures, and tables; - Guides the presentation of mathematics, algorithms and experiments; - Shows how to assemble research materials into a technical paper; - Offers guidelines and advice on spoken presentations. This second edition contains detailed new material on research methods, the how-to of being a scientist, including: - Development of ideas into research programs; -Design and evaluation of experiments; - How to search for, read, evaluate, and referee other research; - Research ethics and the qualities that separate good and bad science. Writing for Computer Science is not only an introduction to the doing and describing of research, but is a handy reference for working scientists in computing and mathematical sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Contents vii
1 Introduction
1(6)
Kinds of publication
2(1)
Writing, science, and skepticism
3(1)
Using this book
4(2)
Spelling and terminology
6(1)
2 Good style
7(22)
Economy
8(1)
Tone
9(3)
Examples
12(1)
Motivation
13(1)
Balance
14(1)
Voice
14(2)
The upper hand
16(1)
Obfuscation
16(1)
Analogies
17(1)
Straw men
18(1)
Reference and citation
19(5)
Quotation
24(2)
Acknowledgements
26(1)
Grammar
27(1)
Beauty
27(2)
3 Style specifics
29(30)
Titles and headings
30(1)
The opening paragraphs
31(2)
Variation
33(1)
Paragraphing
33(1)
Ambiguity
34(2)
Sentence structure
36(4)
Tense
40(1)
Repetition and parallelism
40(2)
Emphasis
42(1)
Definitions
43(1)
Choice of words
43(2)
Qualifiers
45(1)
Misused words
46(4)
Spelling conventions
50(1)
Jargon
51(1)
Cliché and idiom
52(1)
Foreign words
52(1)
Overuse of words
53(1)
Padding
54(2)
Plurals
56(1)
Abbreviations
57(1)
Acronyms
57(1)
Sexism
58(1)
4 Punctuation
59(10)
Fonts and formatting
59(1)
Stops
60(1)
Commas
61(1)
Colons and semicolons
62(1)
Apostrophes
63(1)
Exclamations
63(1)
Hyphenation
64(1)
Capitalization
64(1)
Quotations
65(1)
Parentheses
66(1)
Citations
67(2)
5 Mathematics
69(14)
Clarity
69(2)
Theorems
71(1)
Readability
72(2)
Notation
74(1)
Ranges and sequences
75(1)
Alphabets
76(1)
Line breaks
76(1)
Numbers
77(2)
Percentages
79(1)
Units of measurement
80(3)
6 Graphs, figures, and tables
83(32)
Graphs
83(10)
Visualization of results
93(6)
Diagrams
99(1)
Tables
100(11)
Captions and labels
111(1)
Axes, labels, and headings
111(4)
7 Algorithms
115(14)
Presentation of algorithms
115(2)
Formalisms
117(1)
Level of detail
118(1)
Figures
119(4)
Notation
123(1)
Environment of algorithms
123(1)
Performance of algorithms
124(2)
Asymptotic complexity
126(3)
8 Editing
129(8)
Consistency
130(1)
Style
130(1)
Proofreading
131(2)
Choice of word-processor
133(1)
An editing checklist
134(3)
9 Writing up
137(20)
The scope of a paper
138(2)
Telling a story
140(3)
Organization
143(6)
The first draft
149(1)
From draft to submission
150(2)
Prepublication
152(1)
Theses
153(2)
A writing-up checklist
155(2)
10 Doing research 157(28)
Beginnings
158(1)
Shaping a research project
159(3)
Students and advisors
162(1)
Finding research literature
163(2)
Reading
165(2)
Research planning
167(2)
Hypotheses
169(4)
Defending hypotheses
173(2)
Evidence
175(2)
Good and bad science
177(3)
Reflections on research
180(2)
A research checklist
182(3)
11 Experimentation 185(20)
Designing experiments
186(3)
Measurements and coding
189(2)
Describing experiments
191(1)
Variables
192(6)
Statistics
198(5)
Intuition
203(1)
An experimentation checklist
204(1)
12 Refereeing 205(10)
Responsibilities
206(1)
Contribution
206(2)
Evaluation of papers
208(2)
Referees' reports
210(3)
A refereeing checklist
213(2)
13 Ethics 215(10)
Plagiarism
217(2)
Self-plagiarism
219(2)
Misrepresentation
221(1)
Authorship
222(1)
Confidentiality and conflict of interest
223(1)
An ethics checklist
224(1)
14 Giving presentations 225(24)
Content
226(2)
Organization
228(1)
The introduction
229(1)
The conclusion
230(1)
Preparation
230(1)
Delivery
231(2)
Question time
233(1)
Slides
234(1)
Slide tools
234(2)
Text slides
236(1)
Figures
237(1)
A presentations checklist
237(1)
Examples of slides
238(11)
Afterword 249(2)
Bibliography 251(2)
Exercises 253(10)
Index 263

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