Paper Writing Checklist

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Paper-writing checklist

Note: this is meant to cover many possible Come up with a simple running
things you might do; for any paper you won’t example that you can use to explain
need to do all of these tasks. The list is also your techniques (eg, if you developed
unordered. a programming language, a specific
program is useful)
Identify your audience Find statistics that motivate the
Define your purpose problem (eg, “5.7 Million people in the
Write a top-down outline down to US have Alzheimer’s Disease”)
bullet points Write the related work for direct
Write a TODO list for each section competition
Come up with a 30-second elevator Identify a good concrete example to
pitch (How would you respond if show in the intro (eg, if you generate
someone asks, “What’s your paper fake faces, you should show some on
about?”) the first page)
Start with the paper section that is Identify what evidence you have for
easiest for you to write each motivation/problem you might
Make hand-drawn figures for the claim to solve (especially helpful for
introduction deciding between motivations)
Make hand-drawn figures explaining Write down the questions your
your solution results/evaluation will answer
Make hand-drawn results figures Enumerate the experiments you have
Dump your thoughts into a text file or run and what conclusions you can
onto a piece of paper draw from each
Decide what figures will show the Enumerate the claims you make and
results what evidence you need for them
Outline the sections Write an introduction
Write down a list of contributions Write the methods section
Decide what is novel compared to …
related work …
Start writing the technical description …
(what did you do?)
Explain background you need (or think Things you should do at some point
you need) but probably later:
Come up with a main message Write an abstract
Gather statistics on the Choose a title
implementation (lines of code, Write a conclusion
versions of software used, etc.) Figure out all the actual submission
Identify a motivating “selling” result logistics (formatting, PC conflicts, etc.)
(we improve throughput by 5x, reduce Trim the paper to be within the page
cost by 20%, etc.) limit

Developed by Mazdak Abulnaga and Tej Chajed, 2021

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