Writing for Computer Science

By Justin Zobel

Book Overview

All researchers need to write or speak about their work, and to have research that is worth presenting. Based on the author's decades of experience as a researcher and advisor, this third edition... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852338024
• ISBN13: 9781852338022
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

An authoritative book with pertinent examples

My roots are in computer science where I started my professional life. Therefore I was attracted by the title. I borrowed the book from the library and read it from cover to cover, frustrated not to be able to use my yellow highlighter on the pages of quite a few chapters. The pertinence of the examples chosen proves that Justin Zobel has reviewed his fair share of papers. If you referee papers, chapter twelve on "Refereeing"...

Very useful tips for writing papers

This book presents a list of useful tips for writing conference papers and research reports. It presents advices on what to do and what not to do when writing. I would strongly recommend it to beginners as well as to experienced writers.

Essential for any computer scientist!

It's the computer scientist's "Elements of Style". Concise and clearly written. A must have!

Many examples and clear guides

This book is a perfect guide for producing reports/theses papers related to Computer Science. I was in the midst of writing a thesis and was struggling with the conventions and styles to use, but after a quick perusal of this book I had all my doubts cleared. Examples are numerous and clear and easily aid you in the writing process. Also, I like this book because it explains the motivation for certain styles and conventions...

Comprehensive and clear

If you think you want this book, you do want it. It's a great guide to writing any report/paper/book in the field of computer science. It has great suggestions for describing mathematics and algorithms, how to gather data from experiments and how to present it. It contains good advice about the general act of writing, and discusses some of the conventions followed in Comp. Sci. It is extremely well written - lucid and...