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.
  • For example, if the requirements are exactly 3 points, it means 3 (not 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 or more). If the requirements are at least two points it means a minimum of 2 and possibly more.

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 0-10.

Software Used to Create Documents

• Please don't use fancy fonts and/or character sets.
• Font size must be 12 point.
• I'm not sure how good Crowdmark is at displaying PDF files. If am concerned that if you have unusual files, that it may fail to display the PDF properly. In my experience word documents are often do not conform to PDF standards.
• 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

• I hope to do summary submissions and marking using Crowdmark. You will get an email from Crowdmark (probably each week) explaining how to upload your summaries. I will attempt to mark them online and you will be notified via Crowdmark when the marking has been completed.