首先要明确论文写作的最终目的是传递一个有用并且可以重复利用的idea
写出一篇好文章需要什么
a not bad idea + solid evidence + good writing skills
solid evidence是文章的主体部分,它包含了充足的分析、实验、结果和讨论
good writing skills主要体现在文章的introduction和abstract部分,它是文章给人的第一印象,应当足够抓人眼球,吸引读者继续阅读文章的后续部分
solid evidence 和 good writing skills对于一篇好文章来说同等重要
写英文论文要善于使用李老师推荐的工具书,使用高级句式替换近乎口语的表达
文章的结构
会议论文的内容分布主要有以下三种
Abstract
- ·阐述大背景 -- 由此背景应与而生的产物(标题中的关键词)-- 此产物的功能/重要性(+例子)-- 此产物的不足之处或面临的挑战 – 提出本文的目的 – 提出本文的方法 – 进一步解释本文的方法 – 本文的方法达到了效果 -- (与现有其他方法的比较)
- 掌握逻辑递进的思路,即后一句话与前一句话紧密相连,可以是前句的补充说明(可以没有连接词,也可以用meanwhile,besides等连接),也可以是前句的转折(多用however,despite+名词短语连接)
- 未必每项内容都需要用一整句话阐述,但要涵盖每项所涉及到的内容,且除了过渡句以外,每句话尽可能保证相似的长度以保证段落的美感
2021Infocom的一篇Abstract范例
Introduction
- 第一段:阐述大背景 -- 由此背景应与而生的产物(标题中的关键词)-- 此产物的功能/重要性 -- (与上述关键词相关的另一关键词 -- 此关键词的影响) -- 关键词应用的实例
- 第二段:关键词有着不足之处/面临着挑战 -- 不足/挑战一 -- 近一步解释/举例 --不足/挑战二 -- 近一步解释/举例 --不足/挑战三 -- 近一步解释/举例
- 第三段:概述A组前人的工作 -- 描述不足 --概述B组前人的工作 -- 描述不足 --(概述C组前人的工作 -- 描述不足 )-- 提出研究对应问题的重要性
- 第四段: 提出解决问题的思路(1-2句话) -- 列举困难一 -- 解释原因 –(列举困难二 -- 解释原因 )
- 第五段:提出本文的方法 -- 近一步解释该方法(2-3句话)-- 提出本文的具体算法/机制/etc -- 列举本文的贡献
每一个部分用一个复杂句描述,注意逻辑递进,用词尽量中性、客观
Abstract和Introduction的通用句式
- 背景
- With the increasing commoditization of X, Y has moved from research labs to production
- Conceived/designed/proposed in the early XXX with the vision of… X has evolved towards a broadly applicable engineering discipline in which…to solve…
- The growing prevalence of … result in …..
- The past decade has witnessed the tremendous success achieved by…. which….
- The proliferation of … is causing a rise in demands for…
- The role of X in Y has received increased attention across a number of disciplines in recent years.
- During the last decade, the link between X and Y has been at the center of much attention.
- There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of …
- X has experienced unprecedented growth over the past XXX years.
- 不足与挑战
- There is an urgent need to address the XXX problems caused by…
- Questions have been raised about the XXX of the prolonged use of …
- Despite its XXX, X suffers from several major drawbacks: …
- Along with this advantage in X, however, there is increasing concern over …
- Although the benefits brought by X has facilitated …, problems caused by Y in … are not negligible.
- However, the existing … may lead to…, imposing a huge burden in …
- This appears as a more straightforward problem compared to the … turns out to be even more challenging because…
- Although studies have recognized …, research has yet to systematically investigate the effect of …
- 目的
- To tackle the challenges above, in this work, we study … to improve/refine/accelerate …
- This study systematically reviews … for …, aiming to provide/explore/investigate …
- To alleviate/moderate the effect of …, in this work, we study and propose … that is capable of …
- This study set out to shine new light on … through …
- The aim of this research has therefore been to … associated with …
- The primary aim of this paper is to remedy these problems by …
- Motivated by this, this paper therefore proposes … to overcome the bottleneck of …
数学表达通用句式
- 符号定义
- Let … denote …
- We consider a scenario where … is … and … is …
- We have/There are … denoted as …
- We define … as …
- … represents…
- … establishes a relationship between …
- 公式/问题定义
- The local loss at … is defined as…, where … denotes ...
- The difference/relationship/etc… with respect to/in terms of/regarding … satisfies…
- The resulting optimization problem is as follows: … subject to …
- 推导方法
- Substituting … into …, we obtain …
- Taking the derivative/expectation on both sides of the equation, we get …
- As a result, … will take a minimum value at … where …
结果和评估通用句式
- Fig…. Compares/shows/illustrates/demonstrates/displays…
- We compare/present/show … in Fig…
- What stands out in this table/chart/figure is …
- This … is quite revealing in several ways. First,… Second, …
- A positive/negative correlation can be found between X and Y…
- There is a significant/moderate positive/negative correlation between…
- The number of … mounts/decreases and levels off/reaches a plateau/bottoms out.
- Fig… elucidates that … has a positive/negative impact on …
- … outperforms/underperforms..
- … exhibits similar behaviors in term of …
Related Work
相关工作放在后面的原因主要有:
- 前置的可阅读性不好,影响读者的阅读体验
- 写介绍本文的模型和贡献,再顺承到相关工作做对比,逻辑上更连贯
在Related Work部分的写作中需要记得注意文章不能做出工作,只有人才可以,需要特别注意句子的主语
在介绍他人的相关工作时不能一时同仁,也不能过高地突出自身工作,要客观地评价他人工作,给予不同程度的肯定
通用句式
- … was originally proposed by … Later, … There is also an emerging line of works which …
- The authors in … proposed …
- The mechanism proposed in … adopts …
- The innovative and seminal work of … pioneered a new approach to…
- Numerous studies have attempted to explain …
- The study by … offers (probably the most comprehensive empirical) analysis of …
- Along the same lines, … subsequently argued/ designed/ proposed/ etc….
- In contrast to … that …., … proposed … which …
Conclusion 和 Further Work
这一部分要尽量简短,对于未来的工作展望,可以简单提一下未来工作的方向,不要浪费大量的篇幅在细节的描述