Some useful material for Scientific writing

Contents

• Text classification
• Material useful for writing
• Information retrieval
• Word processing, layout model
• Oral presentation

Text classification

ACM computing classification system

Material useful for writing

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.

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:

• Justin Zobel's page with links to Technical writing and research ethics

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

Information retrieval

• Digital libraries (conference proceedings, journals, etc.), e.g..
  • ACM Digital Library
  • IEEE Xplore
  • SpringerLink
  • IFIP.
  • ScienceDirect
  • ...
    
• Bibliographies
  • Helsingin yliopiston kirjastojen NELLI-tiedonhakuportaali
  • Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  • Bibliographies of the Hypertext Bibliography Project (HBP).
  • CiteSeer
• Scholar Google
• Altavista
• Google
  
• On-line CS Techreports
• Computer Science Technical Reports

Word processing and the departmental layout model

In writing the exercises (the summary and essay in this course) the Guide on Structure and Layout of Theses should be followed.

You can use the word processing system that you know and prefer. Structure and layout files for different word processing systems:

• LaTeX material of the department
• OpenOffice material of the department

Oral presentation

• How to give a talk (for beginners)
  
• How to present a paper in Theoretical Computer Science: A Speaker's Guide for Students (I. Parberry)
• How to give a good research talk (S. Peyton Jones, J. Hughes, J. Launchbury)
• How to give a good research talk (S. D. Scott)