Back in the days before the internet/www (yup! in the early 80s) became hip or cool (and now an indispensable tool), my colleagues and friends will have face-2-face debates/chats/arguments on why such a language/tool is better than this and that. It was usually about one’s favorite programming language but it was fun time. This may sound pretty mundane and boring nowadays in this world of tweeting and blogging.
Somehow my rolling back the years serve to remind me that writing a paper is like having a healthy (i.e. productive/useful/meaningful/novel etc and FUN!) verbal exchanges of ideas/thoughts/views except in written form.
So what else is there to consider when it comes to writing a paper especially a research paper for specific audience?
I am sure there are many ways to skin a cat – not nice to a cat – as some would let you believe!
So how not to skin a cat but still able to write my ideas (or stuff!) that I see fit or worthy of others attention. This is assuming one write a research paper because you want others to read about your ideas or stuff.
This paper – How (and How Not) to Write a Good Design Paper – makes sense to me so must be ‘good’ paper to me. Now, do I consider form and/or structure first or just follow my own inner voices?
A freemind map listing the key points extracted from the paper.