Ebook: Writing for Computer Science

Annotation;Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Kinds of Publication -- Writing, Science, and Skepticism -- Using This Book -- Spelling and Terminology -- 2 Getting Started -- Beginnings -- Shaping a Research Project -- Research Planning -- Students and Advisors -- A ``Getting Started'' Checklist -- 3 Reading and Reviewing -- Research Literature -- Finding Research Papers -- Critical Reading -- Developing a Literature Review -- Authors, Editors, and Referees -- Contribution -- Evaluation of Papers -- Content of Reviews -- Drafting a Review -- Checking Your Review -- 4 Hypotheses, Questions, and Evidence -- Hypotheses -- Defending Hypotheses -- Forms of Evidence -- Use of Evidence -- Approaches to Measurement -- Good and Bad Science -- Reflections on Research -- A ``Hypotheses, Questions, and Evidence'' Checklist -- 5 Writing a Paper -- The Scope of a Paper -- Telling a Story -- Organization -- Title and Author -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Body -- Literature Review -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- The First Draft -- From Draft to Submission -- Co-authoring -- Theses -- Getting It Wrong -- Irrelevance -- Inconsistency, Inadequacy, and Incompleteness -- Incomprehensibility -- Ugliness -- Ignorance -- A ``Writing Up'' Checklist -- 6 Good Style -- Economy -- Tone -- Examples -- Motivation -- Balance -- Voice -- The Upper Hand -- Obfuscation -- Analogies -- Straw Men -- Reference and Citation -- Quotation -- Acknowledgements -- Grammar -- Beauty -- 7 Style Specifics -- Titles and Headings -- The Opening Paragraphs -- Variation -- Paragraphing -- Ambiguity -- Sentence Structure -- Tense -- Repetition and Parallelism -- Emphasis -- Definitions -- Choice of Words -- Qualifiers -- Misused Words -- Spelling Conventions -- Jargon -- Cliché and Idiom -- Foreign Words -- Overuse of Words -- Padding -- Plurals -- Abbreviations -- Acronyms -- Sexism.