Common Mistake in Writing Research Paper

Muhammad Reza Kahar Aziz Khoirul Anwar

Information Theory and Signal Processing Lab., School of Information Science

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1211 JAPAN
Email:{azizmrk,anwar-k}@jaist.ac.jp

Presented at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

3 March 2014

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Muhammad Reza Kahar Aziz

1999-2004 B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication), ITB

2004-2005 Microwave (Point to Point Radio) Service Engineer in Siemens
Indonesia
2005-2010 Transmission and Broadband Solution Engineer in Ericsson
Indonesia
2010-2012 M. Sc. (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering
(Telecommunication), ITB
2011-2012 Part Time Lecturer in Institut Teknologi Telkom (ITT)
2012-now Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department, Institut Teknologi
Sumatera (ITERA)
2012-2013 Part Time Researcher in JAIST
2013-now PhD candidate in Information Theory and Signal Processing Lab.,
School of Information Science, JAIST

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Current Research Topic

Factor graph (FG) based technique

for geo-location radio emitter
estimation
Known target parameters
I Direction of Arrival (DOA)
I Received Signal Strength (RSS)
I Time Difference of Arrival
(TDOA)
Unknown target parameters
I Position
I Transmit Power
I Time of Departure (TOD)
I Time of Arrival (TOA)

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Writing Experiences
Solution proposals for total contract more than hundreds USD
www.rezakahar.wordpress.com with 300,039 views
3 short articles in www.istecs.org and berita-iptek.org
I http://berita-iptek.com/
kesalahan-umum-menulis-paper-konferensi-dan-jurnal-ilmiah/
M. R. K. Aziz and Iskandar, ”Channel Estimation for LTE Downlink in High
Altitude Platforms (HAPs) Systems, ” in Proc. International Conference of
Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT), March 2013.
M. R. K. Aziz, K. Anwar, and T. Matsumoto, ”Joint RSS-DOA Factor
Graphs based Geo-location Technique,” COST IC1004 Newsletter, No.4, p.4,
March 2013.
Reviewer
I IEEE VTC 2013 Spring, review 2 paper.
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2013spring
I IEEE WCNC 2013, review 2 paper. http://wcnc2013.ieee-wcnc.org
I IC3INA 2013, review 2 paper. http://ic3ina.informatika.lipi.go.id
2 research papers are under preparation
I 1 proceeding paper about DOA FG
I 1 journal paper about TDOA-RSS FG
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Motivation

To publish research paper in high quality international journal and proceeding

conference
To avoid the probability of rejection by reviewer
I Reviewer can be easily angry while reading the bad shape of paper, then reject
the paper
I If the paper is in the good shape, the reviewer has impression that the author
is intelligent
Good idea in research paper in bad shape makes the reader uneasily to
understand, then the idea will be useless
Think as reviewer
I If I am reviewer, I will reject this

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Common Mistake [1]1

Linguistic errors
I The most difficult for not English people
I Long or wrong sentences or phrases
I Missing or unsuitable words
F Formal English shows the quality of scientific writing
F give - provide
F do - conduct
F get - achieve
F done - finish
I Wrong grammar
I Unclear statements

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[1]M. Frentiu and H. F. Pop, ”Editorial: Common Mistakes in Writing Scientific Paper,” Studia Univ. Babes-Bolyai, Informatica, Volume : LV,
Number 4, 2010. [Available Online]. http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/ studia-i/2010-4/01-Editorial.pdf.
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Common Mistake [1]

Scientific content errors

I Lack of clarity, ambiguity, not enough rigor
I Often make the manuscripts unintelligible
I More dangerous than others, and difficult to eliminate
F Major revision
F Rejected
I Different from author to author, depend on:
F Knowledge, Intelligence, Perseverance, Experience
I Example
F Ambiguous statements
F Undefined concepts
F Unclear of incomplete reasoning
F Incomplete or missing presentation of known results
F Missing comparison with other works
F Unclear scientific contribution
F Missing references
F Wrong conclusion
F Unfinished paper

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Common Mistake [1]
Paper style errors
I Wrong citations/references
I Insufficient details on the reference
F Volume
F Issue number
F Pages
I Incomplete or non-standard references
I Non-standard abstract (long, unclear, ...)
I Missing keywords
I Missing citations
I Unsuitable title (too long, wrong choice)
I Non-standard/unsuitable paper structure
Typo and LaTex related errors
I Missing punctuation
I Typing errors
I Missing letters inside words
I Uncited references
I Lack of or incomplete authors address
I Wrong format
I LaTeX style and typesetting errors
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Making Sentences in One Paragraph

One paragraph contains 4-8 sentences

Clear and not ambiguous
I Short sentence makes clear sentence
I Too short sentence makes ambiguous sentence
F Create many interpretation by the reader
Between sentences in one paragraph should be logically connected
I Expertise in choosing the conjunction words between sentences
F However, because, thus, hence, therefore, etc.
F Do not put but & and in the beginning of sentence
I Avoid jumping between sentences
I Good skill in native language will lead good English

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Consistency

Avoid to confuse the reader

Consistency in formulas, equations, and symbols
I Define the symbol after the equation
Consistency in term
Consistency in abbreviation
I Declare the abbreviation in the first time it appears
I Declare twice if the abbreviation is already declare in abstract
Consistency in number
I Spell out a number used as the first word of a sentence
I Spell out a number lower than 100
I It is allowed to spell out a number greater than 100 with keep consistent
Consistency in punctuation
I Do not put coma before because and also that

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Filtering Reference in Writing Research Paper

Thousands paper is available

Need to select the good paper
The algorithm
I Title
I Abstract
I Conclusion
I Introduction
I Main content paper
Important to know the common mistakes

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Title and Abstract
Title
I Avoid too long title
F Difficult to memorize the title
F Maximum 12 words2
F Short title papers are more downloaded rather than long title papers
I Avoid to use word novel or novelty because it is not novel any more in the
future
I Avoid ambiguity
Abstract
I Avoid unbalance abstract
F Too much introduction part in
F Missing the discussion, result, etc
I Do not rewrite abstract in the first paragraph of introduction
F Low quality of scientific writing
I Do not write more than one paragraph
I Do not hide important things
F Reader can get all the important things without read the whole of paper content
I Do not cite
I Do not use the common sentence in the introduction of abstract
F Example: Telecommunication is very important today
2 [2] Common Mistakes in Academic Papers. [Available Online].
http://www.uni- saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Professoren/fr43_ProfFrenk/Guidelines/Common_Mistakes_in_Academic_Papers.pdf.
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Writing Paper Conclusion

Do not confuse the reader

Do not make reader curious to the method and final result
Do not use in conclusion in the beginning of the sentence
I It is better to write new paragraph as conclusion
Do not rewrite in detail as in main content
I Conclusion contains summary and synthetic
I Theory, information, argument, result proof are located in main content

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Conclusion of Presentation

Each author has different level of mistakes

Depend on
I Knowledge
I Intelligence
I Perseverance
I Experience
The mistakes decrease with the increasing number of author’s experience

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 T HAN K YOU

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