How%20To%20Write%20A%20Review%20Paper

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How To Write A Review Paper

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Warning!

• Not that easy!
• Not just 10 paper summaries
• Need real understanding, more reading
• Deep thinking, evaluation and analysis
• Work alone
• Writing skills

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Challenging but Rewarding

• Useful technique for each paper
• Thinking in a critical way
• Form your taste
• New idea
• Pay attention and START EARLY!

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Myth Whose Contribution?

• Yes, you are presenting other peoples work.
• Not just repeating
• Your own thought and study
• State in your own words
• Produce without the assistance of others
• -- Section 4.1 of Brandeis University Rights and
  Responsibilities 2007-2008

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Whats your contribution?

• Digest the papers
• intuition, major ideas, proof
• Organize the materials
• Compare the ideas
• intuition, major ideas, proof, benchmark
• Your analysis
• Summarize the field into a Nutshell.

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How to do it?

• review( papers )
• begin
• for each paper
• Active reading
• Outline the paper/digest their ideas
• Write down key sentences (definitions)/rewrite
• do
• for each paper
• Pros and cons, why
• Polish your outlines/rewrites
• while you are satisfied
• Organize all your thoughts/outlines/digest
• end

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Example

• Goal review HDTV
• Papers
• Samsung,
• Sharp,
• Sony

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Example Step1 1st iteration

• Outline Samsungs paper
• Motivation why HDTV is needed,
• Categorization Plasma, LCD
• Current problems
• How they solve them
• technical detail (resolution, aspect ratio)
• Their proof
• Key sentences HDTV is High-definition
  television

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Example Step2 2nd iteration

• Comparison
• Samsung has better screen resolution
• Your analysis
• Why better resolution is good.
• How they did it.
• Show some proof.

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Example Step3 Organize your Thoughts

• Motivation Why HDTV? Current Problem.
• Category Plasma,
  LCD
• Solutions Samsung, Samsung,
• Sharp, Sharp,
• Sony Sony
• Comparison Pros and Cons, Analysis
• Summary / Conclusion
• Future Work

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Be careful of Citations

• Why?
• give credit to the authors
• help reader retrieve the referred item 2
• How?
• direct quote, referred item marker
• References
• marker author, title, source (publisher /
  place of publication / URL), and date 2, 3
• Tools
• EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero 2

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References

• 1. Student Rights and Responsibilities
• http//www.brandeis.edu/studentaffairs/sdc/rr/inde
  x.html
• 2. Online Citation Guide
• http//brandeis.libguides.com/content.php?pid1058
  0sid70585
• 3. Citation Style
• http//www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.resources.libr
  ary.brandeis.edu/contents.html