Scientific Writing for Computer Science Students - FTP Directory ...
Scientific Writing for Computer Science Students - FTP Directory ...
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Contents1 Introduction 11.1 Goal 1: How to write scientific text is cs? . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1.1 Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.2 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.3 Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.1.4 <strong>Writing</strong> tree t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1.5 Properties of a good tree t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 Goal 2: How to write English? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.3 Goal 3: How to write a master’s thesis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 <strong>Scientific</strong> writing style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4.1 Exact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4.2 Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4.3 Compact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.4.4 Smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.4.5 Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Searching, reading, and referring literature 112.1 Need <strong>for</strong> references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.2 Source types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.3 Collecting literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.4 Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.5 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.5.1 Referring in the text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142.5.2 Reference notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.5.3 Reference list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162.5.4 References in latex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.6 Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.7 Your own opinions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213