Week

Date

Description

Assignment Notes/Ideas

Due Date

1

45302

LaTeX - Setting up the Environment

HW01 - Demo your Env.

45309

2

45309

LaTeX - Knowing your way around TeXStudio

HW02 - Compiling your first paper

45316

3

45316

LaTeX - Philosophy and Practice of writing in LaTeX

HW03 - Why LaTeX, the benefits

45323

4

45323

LaTeX - Figures, Tables, Labels and Refs

HW04 - Adding Figures, Tables etc.

45330

5

45330

Mechanics - Writing clear, concise, and proper English for Computing Research

HW06 - Correcting a paper using Dr. A's Rules for writing

45337

6

45337

Mechanics Continued - Passive Voice and why we avoid it.

HW07 - Correcting passive voice sentences

45344

7

45344

Mechanics Continued - The purpose of each section and the content they contain

HW07 - Identify Contribution, Motivation, Problem statement, etc.

45351

8

45351

Paper Types - Proposals, Project & Research Papers - How they are similar and different

HW08 - Classify 10 papers as Project or Research papers

45358

9

45358

Paper Types - Seminal Works and Survey Papers - how are they different

HW09 - Classify 4 papers as Seminal or Survey papers

45365

10

45365

Research - Finding quality, relevant research: Google Scholar and other methods

HW10 - Finding and classifying papers as relevant or not to a specific subject

45372

11

45372

Research - How do we read research? The types of papers you will encounter

HW11 - Find find a good seminal, survey, research, project paper on your topic

45379

12

45379

Research - Evaluating research for inclusion in relevant work

HW12 - Background with Bibliography - JabRef and anotations - Minimum 10 Cites

45386

13

45386

Writing the introduction - the hardest section to write

HW13 - Re-draft an introduction to a badly worded paper

45393

14

45393

Writing up your work

HW14 - The middle sections of your paper

45400

15

45400

Conclusions and Future Work

HW15 - Turn in your Paper

45407

16

45407

Presenting your work

HW16 - Submit a recorded presentation or your research/project in this class

Final

Final

TBA

Turn in recorded presentation of your work