CIS 640 Writing in Computer Research
Fall 2012
Instructor: Professor Sarah Douglas
Tuesday 10-11:20 AM
200 Deschutes
Description: This course is intended to help graduate students learn to write scientific papers for publication. We will follow a workshop format with peer review and discussion of writing samples. Students will be required to provide frank but constructive criticism of writing samples provided by other students, and to accept criticism in the same spirit.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
Required Readings: The text for this course is "Writing for Computer Science, 2nd edition" by Justin Zobel, price is $20.00.
Topics:
Style and writing for communication in computer science
Presenting algorithms, mathematics, experiments, and programs
Graphs, figures and tables
Oral Presentations
Reviewing papers
Ethics of scientific writing
How to do research