Priya Narasimhan
Associate Professor
Brief Biography
Research
Teaching
Publications
Professional Service
Honors/Awards
Tech Writing
Technical Writing Advice and Resources
Writing Technical Papers/Abstracts
- How to Write a Good [Systems] Paper (things I wish my mother had told me), John Wilkes, EuroSys 2006 Authoring Workshop
- Advice to Authors of Extended Abstracts - William Pugh, SIGPLAN Notices 26, 6 (June 1991), pp. 353-356
- Some Guidelines on Technical Writing - James Wilson
- How to Get Y our Paper Accepted at OOPSLA - Proceedings of OOPSLA'91
- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper - Roy Levin and David Redell
- How to Have Your Abstract Rejected - Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton
- Writing Technical Articles (good for systems/networking papers) - Henning Schulzrinne
- A Referee's Plea (from an ACM SIGCOMM reviewer) - Mark Allman
- Elements of Style (online version), William Strunk Jr.
- Engineering Statistics Handbook (NIST) -- Invaluable resource for presenting/evaluating/performing empirical research
- Conference acceptance-rate statistics, Kevin Almeroth, UCSB
- Ethics and Etiquette in Scientific Research -- David S. Touretzky, CMU
LaTeX Help
- LaTeX FAQ
- Comprehensive TeX Archive Network -
Contains a number of style files (.sty and .cls files) and other TeX-related
software
- CTAN's archive for IEEEtran (e.g., IE EEtran.cls)
- CTAN's archive for citations (e.g., cite. sty)
- IEEE conference proceedings style file (latex8.sty)
- ftp://pu bftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/ (Look under the file "Latex.txt")
- IEEE journal (Transactions) style file (IEEEtran.cls)
- ACM conference proceedings style file
- ACM journal (Transactions) style file (acmtrans2e.cls)
- USENIX conference proceedings style file
Reading Technical Papers
- The task of the referee, A.J. Smith, IEEE Computer, vol. 23, April 1990, pages 65-71
Life During/After Graduate Research
- Building a Research Career, Francine Berman, Career Mentoring Workshop, Computing Research Association (CRA)
- Getting a Job (academic vs. industrial positions; interviewing for faculty positions), Francine Berman, Career Mentoring Workshop, Computing Research Association (CRA)
- Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Dianne Prost O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park
- How to be a Good Graduate Student, Marie desJardins
- How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab, David Chapman
- Giving a Practice Talk for the Qualifier Exam, Teresa Lau
- Fellowship Resource Advising Center (FRAC), CMU
- How to Write a Good (no, Great) PhD Dissertation, Priya Narasimhan, Keynote address, PhD Symposium, ICSOC 2006, Chicago, IL, December 2006
- Time Management, Randy Pausch
Obtaining Research Funding
- Advice on writing proposals, particularly to NSF (Susan Finger)
- NSF's Grant Proposal Guide (GPG)
- Funding your best ideas: A 12-step program (US Department of Education)
- Obtaining Federal Funding, Caroline Wardle, National Science Foundation, Career Mentoring Workshop, Computing Research Association (CRA)