[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.69,0:00:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to speak about the act of writing, Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.50,0:00:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is something every\Nresearcher has to do a lot Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.62,0:00:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the good news is\Nthat some pretty simple things Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.58,0:00:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can make your\Nwritten output a lot better. Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.90,0:00:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's why I titled this:\NSeven simple suggestions. Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.93,0:00:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here we go.\NSeven simple suggestions. Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.63,0:00:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the first one:\NDon't wait: WRITE. Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.27,0:00:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what mistake, Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.54,0:00:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what a lot of people make. Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.61,0:00:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a typical plan for doing research Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.15,0:00:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number one: Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.03,0:00:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have a brilliant idea. Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.26,0:00:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number two: Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.88,0:00:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spend months doing good research to back it up Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.57,0:00:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number three: Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.12,0:00:33.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Write the paper. Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.85,0:00:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In last two weeks before the deadline for the conference. Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.15,0:00:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a bad plan, right. Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.93,0:00:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is a good plan for doing research: Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.06,0:00:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First: have an idea. Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.59,0:00:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second: start writing the paper. Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.88,0:00:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third: use the paper as a forcing function Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.37,0:00:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make you do the research that articulates the paper. Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.49,0:00:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok? Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.01,0:00:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See how diferent it is? Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.44,0:00:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.97,0:00:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means you start writing very early. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.83,0:00:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is this good? Well. Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.47,0:01:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hacking around and writing a code and thinking Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.72,0:01:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I start to write the paper, Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.22,0:01:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than I relise that some of my previous work Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.29,0:01:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was misdirected, right? Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.84,0:01:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't able to do useful goal, Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.66,0:01:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly not for this paper Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.60,0:01:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I also discover Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.87,0:01:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some key parts of the paper that need more work, Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.70,0:01:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right. Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.14,0:01:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you wanna use the paper as a forcing function to learn that early. Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.13,0:01:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also gives you a good way to communicate with another people Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.64,0:01:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Research is all about communication. Right? Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.06,0:01:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you...Maybe you are kind of person who likes work just on their own Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.64,0:01:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a windowless room with no lights. Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.92,0:01:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I like to work with other people Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.77,0:01:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent a lot of time at the white board Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.70,0:01:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have something written you have a new mechanism for communicating with them Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.43,0:01:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.96,0:01:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is very important is a mechanism for communicating Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.07,0:01:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all along way saying Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.78,0:01:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really writing is not the way in which we just report research Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.47,0:01:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me is a way which I do research Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.68,0:01:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think you should think about writing in that way. Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.33,0:02:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just the output, it's a computation Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.32,0:02:02.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the stuff that makes research happen Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.79,0:02:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's because somehow we think more clearly when we write, than when we just think. Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.41,0:02:10.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least I do. Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.27,0:02:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So. Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.95,0:02:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ehm. One problem with this plan here is that it starts with this idea bit. Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.59,0:02:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.00,0:02:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where this idea come from? Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.74,0:02:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so..ehm...it's tempting when you looking at another peoples' work Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.58,0:02:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think "oh my" everybody else has very clever ideas and I am a mere worm Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.85,0:02:31.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have such a trivial boring ideas that nobody would be interested in them Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.90,0:02:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And do you know that feeling? Yeh? Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.19,0:02:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You sit there and you don't feel very creative Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.54,0:02:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me tell you that this is what every researcher feels most of the time Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.23,0:02:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are days when you have miraculous breakthrough Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.73,0:02:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you really know your God is in heaven and you know that all is right with the World. Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.84,0:02:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most of days you thing I am worm this is the natural state of the researcher. Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.97,0:02:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.47,0:02:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what you have to release is that even you know [Tarjan], and so forth, thinks that he's a worm most of the time Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.62,0:02:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what what the researcher do? Good researchers Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.82,0:03:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is they simply start writing anyway, right? Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.59,0:03:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They write a paper about any idea no matter how trivial or insignificant it may be. Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.04,0:03:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My experiences that the clever the research student then more they prone to this failure mode Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.32,0:03:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either they don't understand something which case they are depressed Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.25,0:03:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well stay do undestand something which they do believe, in which case they think it is trivial and nobody would want to know about it, all right? Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.88,0:03:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in both cases depressed. Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.42,0:03:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a good situation, right? Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.65,0:03:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So just write an idea no matter how insignificant it seems to be Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.79,0:03:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my experience consistently is that when you write the paper Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.24,0:03:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your idea develops and ramifies computer science is like a snowflake or flower Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.10,0:03:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you start with a little seed and its ramifies ahead of you in an interesting things Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.51,0:03:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something looked boring turns out to be actually rather interesting Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.66,0:03:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not always sometimes you start writing the paper and it turns out indeed to be weedy and insignificant Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.96,0:04:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe when you published it and it will be done quickly and you put it on your homepage, all right? Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.54,0:04:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, write early! Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.42,0:04:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, and and I really do believe that the second thing is much the most a common case. Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.47,0:04:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It almost invariably turns out to be more interesting than you thought. Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.11,0:04:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, number two if you gonna have this idea and wrote about it you need to be clear what it is. Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.36,0:04:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The business of writing a paper is to convey from your brain into the minds of your readers your idea. Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.22,0:04:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So think of your papers like, like a virus, right? Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.35,0:04:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You trying to, you try to infect your readers' minds with your idea. Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.98,0:04:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you will infect them and then they talk to another people and they will infect them Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.17,0:04:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's like a kind of contagious play which is going to sweep the world Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.64,0:04:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everybody is been thinking about your idea because it is so well infectious. Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.33,0:04:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.81,0:04:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So...ehhmm....my, my, my knowledge here with, with Mozart Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.88,0:04:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just houndred of years after the Mozart died we are listening the people read his papers. Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.30,0:05:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or more precisely play his music. Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.24,0:05:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where you go to concert hall to hear his papers because Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.83,0:05:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their ideas were so infectious Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.67,0:05:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't you think that's amazing? Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.34,0:05:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Won't it be remarkable that in four hundred years time people will still reading you papers. Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.89,0:05:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not all likely Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.93,0:05:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think that's the..,that's a kind of idea like to get Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.22,0:05:18.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your your..the papers is not mechanism for getting promotion Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.43,0:05:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mechanism for convey ideas from your head to somebody elses head Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.55,0:05:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't convey them, right, if don't bother to tell anybody about your ideas, Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.55,0:05:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then your minds don't have them Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.31,0:05:29.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.87,0:05:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if Einstein had sat in the window this box not tell anybody about relativity. Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.93,0:05:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we wouldn't know relativity, right? Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.01,0:05:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means you need to know what your idea is. Right? So when you write a paper in the end at least by the time you finished. Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.56,0:05:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must know what is the idea that your paper conveys. Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.69,0:05:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's surprising how hard that could be to determine from people's papers Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.22,0:05:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a viewer if you read somebody's paper when you finish you can say: Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.68,0:05:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What idea did that paper convey?" Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.55,0:06:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you find that hard to articulate as a reader, then you know, in your view, you can say I really couldn't figure out what this what the idea this paper was about. Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.76,0:06:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so than you apply to your own papers, right? Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.61,0:06:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's actually sometimes quite hard to know exactly what your idea is to begin with. Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.18,0:06:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you must now by the time you finish. Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.11,0:06:16.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eeehrrr...if you find that yourself thinking, ohh..I have actually three ideas in this paper. Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.14,0:06:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Than what you do? Just write three papers. Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.83,0:06:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.35,0:06:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's wrong to try to merge them all in. In which case each one becomes cryptic and incomprehensible. Which you try to squidge into ten pages. Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.09,0:06:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just write three papers, that's cool, right? Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.66,0:06:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not salami slicing, that is taking ideas and expressing them. Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.51,0:06:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A good idea in your paper is to say explicitly when you get to main idea Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.46,0:06:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's suprising how seldom is this happens. Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.80,0:06:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I often try to write phrases in my paper that say the beginning of section three somewhere the main idea of this paper is this.. Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.07,0:06:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I have to explain some context and set up and background. Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.56,0:06:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I wanted to be absolutly clear when I move from describing the context saying: here is the payload. Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.90,0:06:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.60,0:07:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The viruses is about to arriving in your brain. Prepare! Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.71,0:07:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does it make sence? All right? Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.38,0:07:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't say that, if you leave you reader to be a detective. Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.61,0:07:13.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, subsequently they have to reverse engineer what they think you meant was the key idea. That's not good, right? Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.100,0:07:17.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not said it explicitly, be completely up front about this.\N Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.81,0:07:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third thing: Tell a story! Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.33,0:07:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you know write a paper this applies I am focusing mainly on papers. Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.57,0:07:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do also mean dissertations and so forth. Everything applies everything you like really. Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.51,0:07:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is tell some kind of a story Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.28,0:07:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always try to imagine when I'm writing a paper, that I am standing a front of the white board and explain it to a colleague. Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.17,0:07:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's amazing how differently people present things at a white board and they will in a paper. Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.26,0:07:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.67,0:07:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without white board they start away ..??..with examples and explaining quite diffrently than if they..if they will not be out there..you you you get the idea.. Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.46,0:07:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They often explain in much more accessible and engaging way at the white board than in the paper. Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.52,0:07:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you want to by accessible and engaging ......... do the same in the papers you do at the white board. Nearly. Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.52,0:08:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need a little have a bit more substance. Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.09,0:08:03.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here is a narrative flow that I usually try to follow with my papres. Right? Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.59,0:08:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to say here what a problem is, you want to motive your readers to say way it is an interesting problem Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.17,0:08:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to say at least briefly why it is unsolved problem, so be aware of solving, it is unsolved. Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.45,0:08:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you want to present your idea, that's the payload, right now Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.08,0:08:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right? Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.50,0:08:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you give quite a bit of detail Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.34,0:08:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about exactly how what your idea is and how it works Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.46,0:08:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ehm... Then you want to say something about Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.88,0:08:28.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how your idea compares with other people. Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.65,0:08:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, you are kind of trying to lead people in Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.66,0:08:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, no everybody will read Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.42,0:08:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right the way through your paper. Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.26,0:08:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your ideal is Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.28,0:08:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That whereever anybody stops reading Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.62,0:08:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they take away something valuable with them. Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.42,0:08:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And moreover every bit they read Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.03,0:08:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,makes them want to read more, right? Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.97,0:08:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is back to make it accesible, right? Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.34,0:08:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know they say: Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.61,0:08:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, here is an interesting problem Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.13,0:08:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could solve that one! Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.12,0:08:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder if he can solve it! Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.60,0:08:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know - they got a hook! Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.01,0:08:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They incline to read some more. Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.71,0:08:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ehm, here is my - so, the typical outline Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.15,0:09:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for most papers that I write Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.27,0:09:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and indeed it works for dissertations as well. Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.54,0:09:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A short abstract. Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.51,0:09:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An introduction. Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.49,0:09:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then something about the... Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.88,0:09:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stating what the problem is. Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.76,0:09:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then a quite a bit of Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.14,0:09:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a short piece explaining what the idea is Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.40,0:09:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of intuitively Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.37,0:09:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then a longer piece explaining the details Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.24,0:09:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the idea Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.16,0:09:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that sort of fills out the evidence. Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.75,0:09:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then something about relaive work. Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.06,0:09:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am going to say a bit more about Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.02,0:09:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each of these sections Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.48,0:09:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the following piece Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.40,0:09:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is my picture of Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.72,0:09:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how the structure of a paper might go. Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.94,0:09:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look at the numbers of readers, right? Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.38,0:09:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More people read your abstract and title Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.50,0:09:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that will read all the rest of the paper Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.80,0:09:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so each time you want to give them a hook Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.80,0:09:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to continue. Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.37,0:09:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is what I think Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.94,0:09:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your introduction should do. Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.95,0:09:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One page! Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.73,0:09:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Describe the problem briefly Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.66,0:09:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and articulate what your contributions are. Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.42,0:09:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here is some by way of example Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.26,0:09:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ehm, describing the problem Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.85,0:09:46.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would suggest you introduce your problem Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.93,0:09:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an example. Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.18,0:09:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, my good way of doing to say: Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.99,0:09:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is there any typewriter fonts on the first page? Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.59,0:09:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a programming languages guy Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.99,0:09:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and programming languages people tend to Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.89,0:09:58.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put example programs in a typewriter font. Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.35,0:10:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I know if there is a typewriter font on the paper Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.45,0:10:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's probably an example. Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.28,0:10:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's good, right? Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.29,0:10:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in your fields it may differ Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.96,0:10:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but anyway, start with an example Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.69,0:10:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that'll ilustrate your problem. Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.60,0:10:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here is an example of Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.95,0:10:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a paper that I wrote some time ago Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.35,0:10:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the very first thing I did was to give Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.25,0:10:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little program and explain a problem with it Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.26,0:10:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and explain that somehow Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.80,0:10:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my paper is gonna fix this problem. Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.42,0:10:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK? Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.32,0:10:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's an initial hook. Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.79,0:10:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a general description of a problem Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.63,0:01:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I often find, if I spend invested months of effort