Hints on Writing

A (hopefully growing) collection of links on writing.

Papers

• How to get a paper accepted at OOPSLA.
  • http://www.acm.org/sigplan/oopsla/oopsla96/how93.html
  • http://www.sigplan.org/oopsla/oopsla96/how91.html
• General ECOOP writing information http://www.ecoop.org/

Abstracts

• How to write an abstract using the AbstractPattern

Citations

• Scholarly writing should include MeaningfulCitations.

General

• There's a paper in the MCS technical reports archive about writing: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/Publications/CS-TR-95-4.abs.html
• Raibert on Good Writing, "Good writing is bad writing that was rewritten", http://www.alice.org/Randy/raibert.htm
• Proofreading Strategies
• Readability scores can be a useful tool, the trick is to pick the right one. You can use the unix tool 'style' to generate scores.
• Justin Zobel's Writing For Computer Science - IanWelch has a copy if you ever want to borrow
• Lyn Dupre's Bugs In Writing - IanWelch has a copy if you ever want to borrow
• The library has a copy of Richard A. Lanham's ''Revising Prose'' that offers the paramedic approach to prose revision. Lanham's book has the advantage that it is real short

Thesis

• How to Organize your Thesis by Prof. John W. Chinneck

Proposals

Books from the [[http://victoria.lconz.ac.nz/[Victoria library]] (in the Rankine Brown building)

• Preparing a research proposal : a detailed analysis / by Tomas D. Andres, Call Number: HG177 A561 P
• How to prepare a research proposal : guidelines for funding and dissertations in the social and behavioral sciences / by David R. Krathwohl, Call Number: HG177 K89 H 3ed
• Guidelines for preparing proposals : a manual on how to organize winning proposals for grants, venture capital R & D projects, other proposals / by Roy Meador, Call Number: HF5718.5 M482 G