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2013 CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop
Publishing Your ResearchYanlei Diao
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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A Bit About Me
• Grew up in China– Liked math, history, music, dance
• MS, HKUST and PhD., UC Berkeley– Started to pursue database research
• Assistant/Associate Prof., UMass Amherst– Focus: real-time data analytics, big data analytics– Advised 11 graduate students, 5 of whom are
female, and 10+ undergraduate students
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1. Motivation for Publishing1. Motivation for Publishing
• You have great ideas and results to show!• A step closer to completing PhD• Travel to an interesting place for free
– We academics love traveling!
• Gain feedback from people– Both in academia and industry
• Get internship or job offers– Job offers are based on your expertise
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2. Are You Ready to Publish Now?2. Are You Ready to Publish Now?
Have you • addressed an interesting, important problem?
No, address a problem that matters to the real-world!No, address a problem that matters to the real-world!
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2. Are You Ready to Publish Now?2. Are You Ready to Publish Now?
Have you • addressed an important problem?• addressed a technically challenging problem?
– literature survey, research challenges
• developed a good approach?– new, novel, systematic/ principled, technical depth
• obtained interesting, promising results?– preliminary promising results – results of an extensive study, with positive or
surprising results
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3. Where to Publish?3. Where to Publish?
• Higher Prestige:– Journal paper, conference paper, book
(chapter)– Refereed, competitive venues
• Lower Prestige– Poster, demo, workshop paper– Gain feedback, timestamp your ideas
• Alternatives– Online archive (e.g., on arXiv), technical report– Early dissemination, timestamp your results
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4. Prepare Your Manuscript4. Prepare Your Manuscript
• Start with an outline, then expand– Problem statement (motivation, formal stmt)– Sketch your approach– Argue for your contributions – Several technical sections– Performance evaluation (if system-ish work)– Related work– Conclusions and future work
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4. Prepare the Manuscript4. Prepare the Manuscript
• Revise, revise, revise– Everyone does this, even experienced writers.– Start Early!!!
• Enlist excellent proofreaders– For clarity and for grammar.
• E.g., concepts undefined, notation undefined, etc.
– Start Early!!!
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4. Prepare Your Manuscript4. Prepare Your Manuscript• Author ordering:
– Standard: based on contribution– Often: alphabetic order (e.g., in theory, papers
on large systems)– Sometimes: students go before professors (e.g.,
my papers, in biology)
• Plagiarism:– Definitely “No!”; avoid self-plagiarism
• Double submissions – General “No”, but the poster-conference-
journal path is common
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5. Hone Your Writing Skills5. Hone Your Writing Skills
• Take a writing class (or two or three…)– I took two and found them very helpful!
• Read writing books, e.g.,– http://www.bartleby.com/141/
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5. Hone Your Writing Skills5. Hone Your Writing Skills• Take a writing class (or two or three…)• Read writing books• Read technical papers
– for your own work, for class, or in reading group– can’t be a good writer before an intensive reader
• Non-native speakers, read English magazines– e.g., Times, New Yorker, Economist…
• Peer support: critique each other’s writing• Take iterations with your advisor
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6. Technical Response6. Technical Response
• Journals and some conferences require revisions and technical responses– Take reviewers’ comments seriously! – Go over each comment, understand the issue– Prioritize things to fix– Write a detailed response, highlighting major
revisions, clarifying all points raised in reviews
Right attitude: ”the reviewers are never wrong”, but they may have different backgrounds and get confused due to poor writing!
Right attitude: ”the reviewers are never wrong”, but they may have different backgrounds and get confused due to poor writing!
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7. How to Deal with Rejection7. How to Deal with Rejection
Picture Courtesy of Princeton EcoHydrology Lab
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7. How to Deal with Rejection7. How to Deal with Rejection
• Read the reviews!• Cool off for a few days or weeks• Re-read them!
– Use them to improve your paper (for this venue or a future one)
Right attitude: the reviewers may may have different backgrounds and get confused due to poor writing! Right attitude: the reviewers may may have different backgrounds and get confused due to poor writing!
Fun fact: we have all been there!Fun fact: we have all been there!
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Paper Accepted!Paper Accepted!
• Celebrate!
• Prepare a good trip if going to a conference
• Give a great talk
• Publicize your work to maximize influence
• Look for internship offers
• Write your thesis
• Look for job offers