COS 597B - Reading and Writing Papers in Computer Graphics

Fall 2007

Links to Essays and Talks about (Technical) Writing

• How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected by Jim Kajiya.
• SIGGRAPH paper FAQs (scroll down to "Getting a Paper Accepted").
• Things I Hope Not to See or Hear at SIGGRAPH by Jim Blinn.
• How to Write a Bad Article by Frédo Durand.
• Notes on Writing by Frédo Durand.
• Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math by Jonathan Shewchuk.
• Writing Bad/Good Papers by Tamara Munzner.
• How to Write a Great Research Paper by Simon Peyton Jones.
• Writing Technical Articles by Henning Schulzrinne.
• How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper by Roy Levin and David D. Redell.
• UIST'99 Guide for Authors.
• A Referee's Plea by Mark Allman.
• Good Writing by Marc H. Raibert.
• How to Write a Paper by Oded Goldreich.
• Writing the Research Paper from Pearson Education.
• Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots by Bob the Angry Flower.
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (This is the original 1918 version - it's worth buying the current edition.)

Papers we'll be discussing

• Cached papers