Summaries

Paper summary guidelines

An important component of 712 is critical reading of the assigned papers and coming to class ready to discuss them. To help you in this process, we require that you hand in a short review of each paper at the beginning of the class during which we will discuss the paper.

Your summaries should:

We do not want a book report or a repeat of the paper's abstract. Rather, we want your considered opinions about the key points indicated above. Of course, if you have an insight that doesn't fit the above format, please include it as well.

We want the reviews to be short, between 1/4 and 1/2 a page. Reviews must not be hand written, and plain text is preferred over some document formating input or output.

All reviews will be counted, and a random sample of the reviews will be graded. Do not skip class or come late just to finish a review -- we expect that everyone will miss a few, though skipping more than 10% will have a negative impact on your grade.

How to submit.