Principles for Academic Writing

A note about the principles for academic writing.

Details

• Capitalize the first letter of a proper noun
  • For models: True
  • For paradigms: False
• Do not use “And” at the start of a sentence.

Narrative/Statement

• Avoid and eliminate the fuzziness and subjectivity of language to the greatest extent.
  • Avoid to use “we”, “I think”, etc.
• Avoid verbose expressions.
• Make the statement accurate and clear.
• Make the definitions accurate and clear.
  • Use the right symbols for different concepts.

Polish

• Emphasize the contributions in your introduction.

Presentations of Results

• Present the results in a legible way.
  • Include both tables and figures.
• The figures should be in proper size and easy to be recognized.

Formatting

Reference

• Unify the formats of the references in
  • Capitalization
  • Abbreviation
  • Constitution
• The formal BibTex references of publications in CS literature could be found in DBLP.
• For the conferences, record the month, address.