Paper and presentation DOs and DON'Ts

Paper

• Research possible topics. Do a literature/web search.
• Choose a topic. Choose the articles that are pertinent to your topic.
• The bibliography should contain at least 3-5 papers it focusses on, possibly more for an overview.
• The paper should be around 15 pages long (7,500 words), excluding the bibliography.
• Research carefully and understand the articles that are the focus of your paper.
• Do not quote paragraphs directly from the paper
• Your paper should not be only a list of results from the articles you have read.
• Your contribution is
  • For graduate students the emphasis will be on in-depth research of the topic and both analysis and synthesis of the researched material (Understand in depth, criticise and compare the knowledge found in the articles you focus on. If you choose to design a DNA algorithm, this will be of course considered an original contribution).
  • For undergraduate students: the emphasis will be on understanding and structured analysis of the topic.
  • Be prepared to answer questions about your paper.

  Presentation

  • Your presentation should be 50 minutes long, including questions.
  • The text on your transparencies should be big enough to be read easily.
  • Transparencies should NOT be full pages or paragraphs copied from your term paper or the papers you are presenting.
  • Do not just read your transparencies.
  • The transparencies should contain only few easy-to-swallow bites of information at a time: your comments should fill in the explanations needed.
  • Never, ever, ever use more than your allotted time for presentation.
  • Look at your audience while speaking.
  • Be prepared to defend your paper and answer questions about it.

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  Prof.Lila Kari

  Dept. of Computer Science

  University of Western Ontario

  London, Ontario Canada N6A 5B7

  Tel: +1 519 661 2111 ext. 86894

  Fax: +1 519 661 3515

  Email: lila@csd.uwo.ca