Information about Paper Summaries

General Information

• You need to complete and submit summaries as your ticket to get into class.
  This ensures that everyone reads the papers, including those who are not taking the course for credit.
• If you are going to miss class mail me your summaries by the deadline anyway.
• Follow the guidelines provided.
  • 1 page means 1 page. One line over and you get a grade of 0.
  • 3 bullet points means 3 (not 0, 1, or 2, 4 or 5)

Marking Info

• I will mark a random subset of the paper summaries (i.e., I will pick some of the papers at random and mark all summaries written for that paper).
• I will mark at least one of the first papers or two to provide feedback early on.
• Point form is fine.
• Grammar, spelling and punctuation matter! This is a good opportunity to practice writing with short sentences and a short document.
• Be sure to also follow the instructions and guidelines provided (below). Grades will be probably be on a scale of 1-5.

Software Used to Create Documents

• Please don't use fancy fonts and/or character sets.
• I use software to combine all of the PDF files. If you have unusual files, that software fails. Word documents are quite often bad.. If you must use word, use Times Roman fonts only.
• Consider just using ASCII text and coverting that to PDF (e.g., using enscript) or use latex.

What to Put in a Summary

Use the templates provided and be sure to look at and understand the example(s). If you have any questions please ask. NOTE that the examples were done when I restricted summaries to 3/4 of a page but you will be allowed 1 page.

• Research Paper Summary: An example of what a summary might look like (somewhat fake)
• Research Paper Summary: The template to be used for research paper summaries
  Note that this is not in pdf you would file this in and then convert your summary to pdf. On many machines you can use enscript to convert ascii text to postscript and the use ps2pdf to create pdf.
• Survey/Overview (non research) Paper Summary: The template to be used for survey or overview paper summaries
  Note that this is not in pdf you would file this in and then convert your summary to pdf. On many machines you can use enscript to convert ascii text to postscript and the use ps2pdf to create pdf.

Submission Information/Procedures

• Summaries must arrive via email before the deadline specified (this may be one day before class or on the day of the class, see each week for the specified time)
• Email each summary as a different attachment in the same SINGLE email. Use the Subject line "CS854 Summaries"
• Only pdf files are permitted. I'm going to use some pdf annotation software on my ipad to provide feedback.
• Use the naming convention yourgivenname-x-y.pdf where x is the number of the week (the first week with no readings was 0) and y is the paper number for that week. Numbers are provided beside each paper and week numbers are provided beside each week. Please use only lower case letters even for your name. Please be sure to double check them before summitting!
  For example if I was to submit the summary of the second paper listed in week one it would be named tim-1-2.pdf. If is was the ninth paper listed for week two it would be named tim-2-9.pdf. Please check and use the specified week and note that the course may start with Week 0.
  
• Please use these naming conventions, otherwise it becomes too difficult for me to manage. I use software to automatically pull the files and often use software to combine them into one PDF that I can use to mark. If you don't follow the naming convention your submission may get missed.