CS 191 , Fall 2014 Lecture 3 : Writing in the Large ( Continued ) September 19 , 2014 Scribe :

In the last lecture, we saw how we should write the title for a paper. We also critiqued some titles of published papers. In this lecture, we will continue the topic of writing in the large. We will discuss writing the date, the abstract, and the introduction. We will also critique an abstract of a paper written by Tom and his former student Geeta. Zobel, in [1], recommends a writer to ask himself/herself a list of questions before starting to write. These are a helpful set of questions that you might ask yourself in order to set the scope of your paper. We list a summary of the questions from his list. The interested reader is referred to the actual list of questions given on page 138 in [1].