Advice

Some advice for papers and presentations.

Paper Advice

• General advice
• The Science of Scientific Writing
• Commonly misused words
• Advice for math papers
• Several exemplary papers from RSI 1999:
  • Sasha Schwartz, On Exact Covering Systems of the Integers and Partitions of Zⁿ into Translates of Sublattices (PDF, 194K).
  • Elizabeth Williams, Visual Search: A Novel Psychophysics for Preattentive Vision (PDF, 224K).
  • Robert Kotredes, Antialiasing of Images Using Line Sampling (PDF, 198K).
  • Sourav Sengupta, A Comparison of Ganglioside Content and Distribution in Normal Murine Neural Tissue and Murine Neural Tumor Tissue (PDF, 112K).
  • Woon Teck Yap, Synthesis of a New Ligand N,N'-trans-bis-(tert-butyl)-9,10-dihydro-9,10-ethano-anthracene-11,12-dimethanamine (PDF, 331K).

  For several more example papers, look here.

Presentation Advice

• General advice