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Write the Paper First

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If you're planning to submit a conference paper, I'd like to strongly suggest that you spend the next few days just writing the paper (even if you haven't yet planned or finished the experiments). The deadline is a few weeks or months away. You can spare a few days now just to focus hard on the writing. Here are several reasons why ... Clear motivation and exposition are more important than results for getting your paper accepted. If you run out of time, it is better to have a great story with incomplete experiments than a sloppy draft with complete experiments. A good paper builds its case with the accumulated weight of several experiments, so missing a few is not fatal (and you can finish them for the camera-ready version). But a confusing, unconvincing, or incomplete writeup is fatal. But let's assume you are aiming for both clear writing and complete experiments. Suppose you have to finish the paper on no sleep. Which would you rather have left for the last minute, writing or hacki

Write the Paper First Write the Paper First by Jason Eisner (2010) If you're planning to submit a conference paper, I'd like to strongly suggest that you spend the next few days just writing the paper (even if you haven't yet planned or finished the experiments). The deadline is a few weeks or months away. You can spare a few days now just to focus hard on the writing. Here are several reasons why ... Writing is the best use of limited time If you have to choose between clear writing and extensive experiments, pick writing: Clear writing increases your odds of acceptance Clear motivation and e

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