1. How To Write A Review Paper Lin, Chen 林琛

2. Warning! Not that easy! 1. Not just 10 paper summaries 2.Need real understanding, more reading 3.Deep thinking, evaluation and analysis 4.Work alone 5.Writing skills

3. Challenging but Rewarding Useful technique for each paper Thinking in a critical way Form your taste New idea Pay attention and START EARLY!

4. Myth: Whose Contribution? Yes, you are presenting other people’s 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

5. What’s 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.

6. 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 How to do it?

7. Example Goal: review HDTV Papers: Samsung, Sharp, Sony

8. Example: Step1: 1 st iteration Outline Samsung’s 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”

9. Example: Step2: 2 nd iteration Comparison Samsung has better screen resolution Your analysis Why better resolution is good. How they did it. Show some proof.

10. 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

11. 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]

12. References 1. Student Rights and Responsibilities http://www.brandeis.edu/studentaffairs/sdc/rr/index.html 2. Online Citation Guide http://brandeis.libguides.com/content.php?pid=10580&sid=705 85 3. Citation Style http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.resources.library.bra ndeis.edu/contents.html