Writing for Computer Science

All researchers need to write or speak about their work and to have research that is worth presenting. Based on the author's decades of experience as a researcher and advisor, this third edition provides detailed guidance on writing and presentations and a comprehensive introduction to research methods, the how-to of being a successful scientist. Topics include the development of ideas into research questions, how to find, read, evaluate, and referee other research, design and evaluation of experiments and appropriate use of statistics, and ethics, the principles of science, and examples of science gone wrong. Much of the book is a step-by-step guide to effective communication, with advice on writing style and editing, figures, graphs and tables, mathematics and algorithms, literature reviews and referees' reports, and structuring of arguments and results into papers and theses.