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 ====== Resources ====== ====== Resources ======
  
-Adapted from [[https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~pollock/|Lori Pollock]]'s Literature Review course assignment+===== Literature Searches, Related Work =====
  
-===== Finding the World: Bibliography Search =====+ 
 +Adapted from [[https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~pollock/|Lori Pollock]]'s "Research Proposal Learning Experience" course assignment 
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 +==== Finding the World: Bibliography Search ====
  
 The goal is to identify the world for your topic, i.e., search for all papers relevant to your topic.  You won't read the papers but instead determine relevance based on title and abstract.  Search in digital libraries (e.g., ACM, IEEE) and in recent conferences and workshops that cover your topic to find papers. The goal is to identify the world for your topic, i.e., search for all papers relevant to your topic.  You won't read the papers but instead determine relevance based on title and abstract.  Search in digital libraries (e.g., ACM, IEEE) and in recent conferences and workshops that cover your topic to find papers.
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 The goal is to have an organized view of the world, not just a long list of papers on the topic, which will help in writing a survey The goal is to have an organized view of the world, not just a long list of papers on the topic, which will help in writing a survey
  
-===== Writing a Literature Review =====+==== Outlining a Literature Review ====
  
 A literature review should help you understand the timeline, overall contributions, relative merits and limitations of the work embodied in the state-of-the-art in your topic. You need to read only the abstract, introduction, related work, and conclusions sections of each paper. Do this reading in chronological order (or reverse chronological A literature review should help you understand the timeline, overall contributions, relative merits and limitations of the work embodied in the state-of-the-art in your topic. You need to read only the abstract, introduction, related work, and conclusions sections of each paper. Do this reading in chronological order (or reverse chronological
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 This outline should be in plain text so it is easy to insert into a latex file to start writing. This outline should be in plain text so it is easy to insert into a latex file to start writing.
  
-===== Writing a Background/Related Work Section of a Paper/Proposal =====+==== Writing a Background/Related Work Section of a Paper/Proposal ====
  
 First, read some Background and Related Work sections of papers to see how they are written. A good literature survey does not just write a separate paragraph on every paper First, read some Background and Related Work sections of papers to see how they are written. A good literature survey does not just write a separate paragraph on every paper
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     * restrictions/limitations of that research. What didn’t they address? Did they implement it and evaluate it?     * restrictions/limitations of that research. What didn’t they address? Did they implement it and evaluate it?
  
-Using your literature review outline (see above) as a template and the the suggestions above, put together your related work section.+Using your literature review outline (see above) as a template and the the suggestions above, put together your related work section.  It takes time and often rewriting to put a related work section together as above. 
  
 A related work section should be 1 to 1 1/2 pages in the typical double-column conference paper format.  Most are more like 1 page maximum. A related work section should be 1 to 1 1/2 pages in the typical double-column conference paper format.  Most are more like 1 page maximum.
  
-It takes time and often rewriting to put it together as above. +
 ===== How to Read a Research Paper ===== ===== How to Read a Research Paper =====
  
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