Create Communication
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LEARN HOW TO WRITE
You are required to write one or two thesis during your graduate student career: a PhD and maybe an MS.if your work is to benefit anyone other than yourself, you must communicate it. This is a basic responsibility of research. If you write well more people will read your work!
Know what you want to say. This is the hardest and most important factor in writing clearly. If you write something clumsy and can't seem to fix it, probably you aren't sure what you really want to say. Once you know what to say, just say it.
You will certainly suffer from writer's block at some point. Writer's block has many sources and no sure cure. Perfectionism can lead to writer's block: whatever you start to write seems not good enough. Realize that writing is a debugging process. Write something sloppy first and go back and fix it up. Starting sloppy gets the ideas out and gets you into the flow. If you ``can't'' write text, write an outline. Make it more and more detailed until it's easy to write the subsubsubsections. If you find it really hard to be sloppy, try turning the contrast knob on your terminal all the way down so you can't see what you are writing. Type whatever comes into your head, even if it seems like garbage. After you've got a lot of text out, turn the knob back up and edit what you've written into something sensible.
Writing letters is good practice. Most technical papers would be improved if the style was more like a letter to a friend. Keeping a diary is also a way to practice writing (and lets you be more stylistically experimental than technical papers). Both practices have other substantial benefits.
If you put off writing until you've done all the work, you'll lose most of the benefit. Once you start working on a research project, it's a good idea to get into the habit of writing an informal paper explaining what you are up to and what you've learned every few months. Start with the contents of your research notebook. Take two days to write it-if it takes longer, you are being perfectionistic. This isn't something you are judged on; it's to share with your friends. Write DRAFT-NOT FOR CITATION on the cover. Make a dozen copies and give them to people who are likely to be interested (including your advisor!). This practice has most of the benefits of writing a formal paper (comments, clarity of thought, writing practice, and so forth), but on a smaller scale, and with much less work invested. Often, if your work goes well, these informal papers can be used later as the backbone of a more formal paper, from an AI Lab Working Paper to a journal article.
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Neal Walfield
Education
The Johns Hopkins University(Phd)
University of Massachusetts at Lowell(MS)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf(BS)
Research Interested
His main interests are resource management and security.
Recent Projects
His most recent major project was the development of Viengoos, a microkernel designed to explore adaptive memory management.
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Professor of
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Membership
IEEE, ACM, USENIX, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu
Research Interested
Storage and File Systems, Operating Systems, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Databases, Computer Architecture
TextBook
Operating Systems: Four Easy Pieces
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How To Write A System Paper
Playing With Binary Format
Linux Source Navigator
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