How to Write a Great Research Paper

Writing papers and giving talks are key skills for any researcher, but they aren’t easy. In this pair of presentations, I’ll describe simple guidelines that I follow for writing papers and giving talks, which I think may be useful to you too. I don’t have all the answers-far from it-and I hope that the presentation will evolve into a discussion in which you share your own insights, rather than a lecture.

[@TripleTcz]

1:05 1. Don't wait: write [paper-driven research]
6:07 2. Identify your key idea
14:10 3. Tell a story
18:30 4. Nail your contributions
29:28 5. Related work: later [after detailed description of key idea]
39:58 6. Put your readers first (examples) [make the text easy to follow]
47:36 7. Listen to your readers [friends, experts, reviewers]
56:52 Summary

[@q2breath]

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[@apoorvshukla7]

Awesome talk, thanks!

[@adnan-sharif]

Thanks for the advice and guidance.

[@nsudam]

Thank you.

[@NNOTM]

I'm very confused by the lack of comic sans

[@AssassinGrudge]

"an hour closer to being dead" it give me a chill and make want to put a double effort to write something before i force some one else to read it (reviewers) and make them waist their precious time.

[@tejasshetty4400]

waste ?
instead of waist

[@pedramdabaghian1329]

The presentation was so impressive and clear. Thanks a lot!

[@chitararajeshkumar5934]

Thank You sir for informative session

[@leixun]

My takeaways:
7 simple, actionable suggestions
1. Don't wait to write 1:04
2. Identify your key idea 6:10: explicitly
3. Tell a story 14:10: paper structure
4. Nail your contributions to the mast 18:35: introduction
5. Related work 29:29
6. Put your readers first 39:58: the main body
7. Listen to your readers 47:35

[@AisMan93]

I appreciated the advice of "active paper writing", in which one starts writing from the beginning. Also, the advice of making your idea clear and sharp as much as you can, and keep the abstract last is very interesting.

[@HicksYvette-l8e]

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[@salomoodley6952]

Love your energy...deeply inspired by your creativity and passion for writing. GREAT PRESENTATION! Now to make it happen...

[@mohammedal-shaboti7939]

Nice, completely agree with the idea of " idea->write->research".

[@abramswee]

first paper's rejection is always the most painful to bear.

[@Wordvice]

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[@Nieon]

Thank you for sharing!

[@sylviashen3838]

Came from my supervisor's website. These tips sound very reasonable.

[@tapashyarasaily1373]

Same here👍☺️

[@uddhabkarki4867]

I like this presentation and helpful to me how to write a research paper.

[@reniewell6878]

Thanks for sharing, very useful advice!

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[@Lilly-wd9de]

Thank you so much! I really need to listen your lecture. You helped me so much...

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[@南方中阳]

nice. It is useful

[@michelleflores3420]

100% agree with putting related work at last!!

[@christopherellis2663]

White on yellow is unreadable

[@Theone-ou2xt]

i love these guidelines ,especially the thing about start writing don't wait .

[@sarandiabel]

Oh no... 50:24

[@computerscienceitconferenc7375]

good one!

[@RB-fp8hn]

Please add the name of the speaker/presenter in the description. Two reasons: (a) many viewers may want to know (I certainly do), and (b) in academic research circles, it is widely considered unethical to not even state the name of the person who is giving the talk! Edit: Went through MSRC's list of researchers to find this information: Simon Peyton Jones.

[@hugokermabon8641]

It's on the title slide though

[@cnchm4104]

great

[@danielschmidt4758]

Great talk!

[@nsbhater]

KLM fonts, color and writing. Why?

[@Tourismmj]

Thank you so much for sharing!!!!

[@SudarshanSrinivasan]

I find it very hard to write when I don't have anything to write about, no results, no methods etc. The natural approach for me is to do design my methodology, prepare my expts, run them, get my results, formulate my discussion and the write it out. Are there others who feel the same way? How do I abandon that urge to follow this method?

[@RB-fp8hn]

If I may suggest, here's what I would say: once you have your methodology figured out, write it out clearly. This will help you understand if there's any mistake in the methodology (which is sometimes a critical but subtle error junior researchers do in their first one or two projects). Next, if your experiment achieves great results, you are pretty much done already! If the results are not that great, get your hands dirty to figure out what can be improved. Reading other state--of-the-art results in your field generally helps with designing improvements. That first series of experiments where your results were not so great ... that becomes your baseline now. So you write THAT down (this becomes your "story" for the paper). I personally like this method because the reader can understand your entire journey while they are reading your paper. I have had a reasonably high acceptance rate in good conferences when I have taken this approach, so I hope this helps you too :) [sorry for the long comment]

[@tapashyarasaily1373]

I waited for too long...time to write now!!

17:33 Number of reader you expect to have, ao it better be good.

[@MrAlfrido]

What happen with the close caption

[@dhavalsatishvyas9160]

Thank you

[@Polodus]

good vibes, good tips!

[@LengForChrist]

nice

[@bobsalita3417]

Wonderful use of humor and metaphor.

[@fernandocortes1187]

30:00 meta

[@aragawfentabil470]

Nicest.

[@biomedicojean763]

Muito bom!!!!

[@Berkah-Cerdas]

Your speaking is too fast for audience