HOW TO HAVE A GOOD PAPER Tran Minh Quang

What and Why Do We Write? Letter Proposal Report for an assignments Research paper Thesis ….

Bad Writing No one know what you are doing You can not explain what you want to do Can not get the budget Can not reach better position for your career

Bad Writing The topic is so general or so detail Bad organization The content is not clear and is disorderly written So many typo and lexicological mistakes Dose not follow the format

Good Writing The right topic is chosen Good organized Follows the format The content is written in a good logical order The content is rich enough Easily to be understood and interpreted The reference list is carefully cited

The Organization of Good Papers Topic Abstraction Introduction The related works The main procedures (including 2 to 5 sections) Conclusion and future work Reference list

Choosing Topic Is clear Not too general Not too detail Not too long Not to short Meaningful Has a nice rhythm

Choosing Topic (con’t) Topic 1: “Research on Data Mining” Topic 2: “Studying Association Rules Technique in Data Mining” Topic 3: “Association Rules is a Good Technique for Finding the Customers’ Behavior” Topic 4: “Applying Association Rules Mining Technique to Analyze Customer Behavior ” WHAT IS THE GOOD TOPIC?

Writing the Topic and Subtopic Capitalized all or the First letters of non- article words Articles with less than 3 letters are written in lower-case Example: “Applying Association Rules Mining Technique to Analyze Customer Behavior ”

Abstraction To summarize the paper After reading the abstract, the reader can stop reading the paper Written in only one paragraph About 100 to 250 words

Abstraction The abstract includes: – What have been done – By which methods the research was conducted – The summary of the results – Brief comparisons with other methods – Dose not include the motivation!!!

Introduction The motivation of this research Methods that are used in the research Why those methods are used? What/What methods other research used What is the main achievement of the research The organization of the paper

Related Works What have been done and by what methods in other researches What is the main different between this and other researches – Different approaches – Different data set – Different results – Reversional hypotheses By what means these differences were reached

Main Procedures Is the heart of the paper About 2 to 5 sections Explains the methods and procedures that the research was conducted How to get the data How the experimental results can be achieved

Main Procedures Other researchers can follow these procedures to get the same results

Conclusion and Future Work To conclude what has been done and the main results achieved What is the prominent achievement compared to other researches What is back-ward of this research that should be solve in the future What kind of researches or applied works should be stemed from this researches

Reference List Every research has to be stemed from other works References have to be cited in the content of the paper The format of citing reference list is be long to the regulation of the organization where the paper is submitted to

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Reference List References [1] Agrawal, R, and Srikant, R. Fast algorithm for mining association rules. In proc. of VLDB ’94. pp , Santiago, Chille, Sept [2] Han, J., Pei, J., and Yin, Y. Mining frequent patterns without candidate generation. In proc. of ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, pp. 1-12, [3] Bayard, R.J. Efficiently mining long patterns from databases. In proc. of ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, pp , [4] Grahne, G., and Zhu, J. High performance mining of maxima frequent itemsets. In proc. of SIAM’03 workshop on High Performance Data Mining, 2003.