Scientific Writing for MSc in Computer Science : Links and material
This page contains some literature about writing expecially about academic writing. At the end of this page is also some links for oral presentation guides.
Material useful for writing
Reading guides
- S. Keshav. How to read a paper SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 37, 3 (July 2007), 83-84
Printed writing guides in English
- Zobel, J., Writing for Computer Science: The art of effective communication. 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 2005. Also the 1st edition from 1997 can be used. Some copies available in the campus library.
- Lester, J.D., Writing Research Papers: A complete guide. 7th edition. HarperCollinsCollege Publishers, New York, 1993.
- Barrass, R., Scientists Must Write: A guide to better writing for scientists, engineers and students. Chapman & Hall, London, 1995.
- Murray, R., How to Write a Thesis. Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, England, 2010.
- ... and a huge number of other similar books
Online guides for academic writing
Here are some examples of guides for academic writing:
- Writer's Handbook of University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
- Online writing lab of University of Purdue (USA)
- Writing skills guide of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)
Technical writing and research ethics:
Hands-on guidance about writing process and introduction
Comics (collected by Ashwin Rao)
- What happens when you start writing in the last minute: http://abstrusegoose.com/361
- How you under/over estimate the time for writing: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1755
- Coming up with Academic paper titles: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=718
- Not to be inspired by the titles used to increase popularity of media content: http://xkcd.com/1283/
Word lists in English
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
- OneLook dictionaries
- Term and Word Online - General Language Dictionaries
Text classification
ACM computing classification system
Information retrieval
- Digital libraries (conference proceedings, journals, etc.), e.g..
- Bibliographies
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