How to write a great research paper by Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/write-great-research-paper">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/write-great-research-paper</a> <hr style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-style: solid none none; border-color: black; border-image: none; height: 1px; display: block;"> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.5; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.71px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_bold, wf_segoe-ui_semibold, wf_segoe-ui_normal, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;">Simon Peyton Jones<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.5; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.71px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This talk offers seven simple, concrete suggestions for how to improve your research papers.  You may also find my talks on <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/how-to-write-a-great-research-proposal/">how to write a great research proposal</a> and <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/give-great-research-talk/">how to give a great research talk</a>  useful.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">- Powerpoint slides of the talk: <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/How-to-write-a-great-research-paper.pdf">PDF</a> <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/How-to-write-a-great-research-paper.pptx">PPT</a> (you should feel free to repurpose these slides for your own use as    long as you acknowledge ownership)<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">- <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1464870">Another video of the talk</a> (shorter: 34 mins), Cambridge Computer Lab, Spring 2013, with thanks to Neil    Dodgson for the editing and production.<p style="padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">- Other languages<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">  <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="https://translatingright.wordpress.com/2015/08/30/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%9F-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%AD-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%B7-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%83%D9%85-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83/?preview_id=22">Slides translated into Arabic</a> by Suzan Alkhodair.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">  <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/kdmsnr/writing-a-paper-seven-suggestions">Slides translated into Japanese</a> by KADO Masanori.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">-Derek Dreyer’s excellent PLMW’16 talk “How to write papers so that people can read them” (<a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(0, 96, 172); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" href="https://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/talks/talk-plmw16.pdf">slides here</a>) <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">  tackles exactly the same question as my talk, and also offers seven concrete suggestionsz<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, wf_segoe-ui_semilight, wf_segoe-ui_light, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: calc(14.9px + 0.22vw); vertical-align: baseline;">  — and they are interestingly different from mine!