**M5: Full Paper Draft** CS 190 For this milestone, you will complete a full (rough) draft of your 190 paper. # Draft Requirements Your draft must include the following elements: 1. A title 2. An abstract summarizing your project topic 3. An introduction 4. A review of the relevant literature citing the relevant papers. This literature review must provide an organized presentation and categorization of the existing work relevant to your topic. It should also include your own commentary and assessments. Unless an exception has been approved by your 190 instructor, this literature review must include at least 10 papers, and at least 8 of those papers must have been published in one of the pre-approved venues. (If you are doing a senior thesis, this section will probably be entitled "Related Work".) 5. A proposal for a novel contribution relating to this research area, including research objectives, project design, and methods. (If you are doing a senior thesis, this may be replaced by a methodology section instead.) 6. If you are doing a senior thesis, an outline of any remaining sections (e.g., Results) 6. A discussion of ethical implications. 7. A list of references cited in your paper. At a minimum this will include all the papers discussed in your literature review, but you may need to cite additional things during your introduction or in other sections. Papers or other things that are not cited in the body of your draft paper should not be included in the referrences. This must be generated from a bibtex file using the `\bibliography` command. Additionally, your draft must be written in LaTeX using [this style file](M5-draft-starter.zip). **You must use the anonymous `\documentclass` option.** (This is enabled be default in the starter code.) We will be doing double-blind peer-reviews the week of November 18 (i.e., you won't know whose paper you are reviewing, and they won't know who reviewed their paper). LaTex supports double-spaced documents. If your 190 prof asks for a double-spaced draft, you should uncomment the `\doublespace` command on the line before `\begin{document}`. # General Writing Advice Some quick tips from us profs: - Clearly state your thesis. - Provide clear evidence supporting your thesis. - Write a bold beginning. - Write a provocative ending. - Vary sentence and paragraph length. - Check for sentence and paragraph transitions. - Maintain a consistent tense and voice. - Use present tense. - Get into a writing routine. Write a small amount (20 to 30 minutes) three days a week for the entire semester. - Jot down disparate sentences and combine them together as is useful. - Outline sections headings and then write the first sentence of each paragraph for each section. - Esthetics are important. + Use descending style elements (`\section`, `\subsection`, `\subsubsection`, `\paragraph`) for headings, subheadings, etc. + Use bold or italics to draw attention to important points (but be sure to use consistently). + Add figures and tables to summarize and break-up text (if appropriate, these may be copied from the work you discuss in your literature review). Here are some tips from [Some "Tips from a Pulitzer prizewinner" (US novelist Cormac McCarthy) written up by Van Savage and Pamela Yeh](http://web.stanford.edu/group/nusselab/cgi-bin/lab/sites/default/files/d41586-019-02918-5.pdf): - Use minimalism to achieve clarity. - Decide on your paper's theme and two or three points you want every reader to remember. - Limit each paragraph to a single message. - Keep sentences short, simply constructed, and direct. - Don't slow the reader down. - Don't over-elaborate. - Don't worry too much about reads who want to find a way to argue about every tangential point and list all possible qualifications for every statement. - Spoken language and common sense are generally better guides for a first draft than rule books. - Commas denote a pause in speaking. - Dashes should emphasize the clauses you consider most important---without using bold or italics---and not only for defining terms. - Inject questions and less-formal language to break up tone and maintain a friendly feeling. - Choose concrete language and examples. - Avoid placing equations in the middle of sentences. - Red your work aloud to yourself or a friend. # What to Submit You should submit your project milestone as a pdf to [Gradescope](https://www.gradescope.com/) following any section-specific instructions provided there. Make sure your pdf is generated using the correct [LaTeX template](M5-draft-starter.zip) before submitting!