Basic Rules for Writing
1. Furnish your writing with good format and content such that it looks as
professional as it can/should be. Proof-read your own writing before
giving it to anyone else.
2. A complete work must have bold title, authors, affliation, email, abstract,
numbered sections, and references. All pages must be numbered. Settings
for page text height, width, font format/size, and spacing should be
carefully adjusted.
3. The abstract must show the beef of your work. Focus on the problem
being addressed, your idea and solution, and how your solution performs.
4. The introcution section must have a smooth and tight story-telling
logic flow. It should detail the problem being addressed, how others
attack the problem and how their methods perform or what disadvantages
they have, how you view the problem, and the organization of the
rest of the paper. References should be inserted appropriately.
5. The conclusion section must summarize the whole paper, give new thought
and view of the problem or solution, emphasize the contributions,
and point out the directions to extend the work reported here.
6. All figures and tables must be numbered and named with proper titles.
They should appear after the text paragraphs that refer them. Use figures
and tables whenever needed to help you convey the ideas.
7. References must be sorted according to the order they appear in the
text body (preferred) or alphabetically according to the last name
of the first author. References should have the format: author(s), title,
publisher/URL/conference/journal, page numbers as pp.12-21, publication
date (month and year).
8. Sketch your paper organization before writing it up. The outline should
be detailed enough about the key points and logic flows in each paragraph,
and indicate the figures and tables needed. Always think over the messages
you want to convey to the readers in each section and in the whole paper.
9. Watch the grammar problems and expressiveness of your writing when you
transform your outline into a paper. Do not jump to the next sentence
unless you are happy with the current sentence. You have plenty example
sentences to refer in good papers you referred.
10.The content and format of your writing are, in most circumstances,
equally important. A quality content with poor writing skills will never
get accepted in a major journal/conference. However, a less-quality
content with excellent writing skills appears here and there.