Literature search and thesis writing

EI Village)

Normal search

Case Insensitive

Root search

$ Management can detect managers, etc.

Retrieve personal articles

Search field (English): Smith. A. Brandon

Search field (Chinese) :( (long. Teng) or (Teng. Long) wnav Beijing inst * of tech *

Retrieving a topic

Example: Tall Building

Retrieval: {tall building} and {earthquake restance }}

Web of Knowledge

Including:

Patent database-derwent innovations Index

Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expert) (CPCI-S) (CPCI-SSH)

Analysis Tool-(Jesi) (JCR impact factor)

Retrieval Method (General, citation, advanced)

Author search

Surname-full spelling, name-abbreviations, such as Huang fl

Search for matching characters

* --- Represents 0 to multiple letters

? --- Represents a letter

$ --- Represents 0 to 1 letter

For example, retrieving a topic Article magnetic * Resource imag *

ID of distinguished journals and conferences

Journal -- IDs number starting with a number

Meeting-IDs names with letters

The process of Thesis Writing

(1) find new ideas

(2) do solid research

(3) Publish top papers

The above three steps are cyclical, with 4-5 doctoral students and 1-2 for master students

Method for reading paper

Bad approach-read, read, and track

Good approach -- read less, think more

30% on understanding, main ideas, solutions

70%

Critical thinking (what's wrong, counter examples)

Creative Thinking (what else, why not, how to do better)

Assume nothing

Get good ideas idea

Method One: Brainstorming within a group, highly stimulating

METHOD Two: Finding DOTS (killer applications), making dots, research Matrix Method

How to write good paper

Language-independent misconceptions (paper should be language independent)

Ø progressive improvements -- recap: (how should the instructor lead students to modify paper)

(1) You work with students, word by word, on one page

(2) Students generalize and improve rest of paper

(3) you work with students, word by word, on the next page

Loop several times

Logic flow -- strong and succinct logic flow to argue one theme (Strong logic of paper)

Strong and tight logic flow:

(1) The problem is important

(2) previous works, weakness

(3) we propose a new...

(4) We prove/demo that... better... compared

Ø top-down refinement-as clear as possible, pretend you are reviewers (better paper readability)

Title -- a ten-word high-level Summary

Abstract -- a 200-word high-level story

1 introduction -- a two-page high-level story (including background)

2 previous works

3 A New Method

3-1 Framework

3-2 major components

3-2-1

...

3.3 time and space complexity

4 experiments

5 conclusion-a 200-word story

Appends -- proof

Ø key points

1-write abstract and an outline very carefully

2-expend each sentence in abstract with roughly

3-strictly expanding (the content in introduction is to extend the sentence in abstract with several sentences)

Abstract A, B, C

Introduction A1, A2, A3; B1, B2, b3...

4-must be consistent in the whole paper

5-be very sensitive when criticizing others work (use facts, emphasis difference, in our opinion)

6-truthful precise, clear and straight forward (others can replicate your result, quite formal)

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