How to write abstract and introduction for a paper/conference paper:

The abstract of a paper or a conference paper is normally one paragraph with 100-400 words. It is normally structured into several sentences. Each sentence should be able to answer the following questions:

1.      what is this paper about- a general problem statement

2.      Why is this important- what is the significance. This, on the other hand, explains why you conducted the research

3.      What has been done before:           state-of-the-art.

4.      what is the shortcoming in what has been done before, why that is not good

5.      What you have done in this research?

6.      how that (what you have achieved) improved related to the state-of-the-art

Following the above six points, and in this logical order, you should be able to present a very excellent abstract

As for the title of the paper:

The title of a paper should not be too long, and should not be too specific. it normally has 7 words, (not counting 'of', 'the','a',etc)

 

How to write an introduction:

An introduction is an extended version of an abstract, so it should be formulated the same way as the abstract. Instead of stating each of the above-mentioned questions in one or two sentences, an introduction should be able to give more detailed information and provide a profound discussion. For an 8 pages conference paper, the introduction part is normally one page long with 4 paragraphs. to put the answers to the above 6 questions into 4 paragraphs, you need to:

v  in the first paragraph:

Ø  what is this paper about – general problem background introduction

Ø  why is this important-this states the significance of you research

v  in the second paragraph:

Ø  What has been done before- state-of-the-art.

Ø  why that is not good enough, the shortcoming

The second paragraph in the introduction is actually the literature review. As for how to write a good literature review, I need to learn further more and then come up with some good 'how to', and this part can be in one paragraph or if too much information, then 2

Normally, a paragraph in a formal paper is around 10 lines in a single column A4 paper.  A sentence, starting from one full stop until the following next full stop is no longer than 4 lines. you can always use comma ',' to break the sentence (as to where to put the comma, you follow your own feeling when read through it, normally, a adverb clause, phrase, etc), so that readers or reviewers could have a (puff) rest when they find difficulty in absorbing the too-much information in the long sentence. two-line is the normal length, but on the other hand, do not keep all the sentences in two-line length, try to use long and short sentences alternatively (this is not the right word, I am afraid) and use various sentence structures.

v  in the third paragraph:

Ø  based on the literature review in the second paragraph, identify the research question, and state what you have done in this study

Ø  what you have found (your result, contributions what is good about your work) and how that improves/ relates to the current start-of-the-art

v  In the fourth paragraph: state the organisation/ strucuture of the paper/ framework/outline/or whatever you name it, such as: the reminder of this paper is organised as follows: …

How to write a conclusion:

Most of the time, you will see people put conclusions all in one single paragraph. It is suggested that emphasize each aspect in separated paragraphs or using bulleted list.  In conclusion, you do not need to state the general problem again, you can start with a introduction of what you have done in this research, and then use bulleted dots to present the significance of your research, its contributions to the practical problem, the advantages of the proposed method, the superior performance of the model, etc.

Start a new paragraph stating the future work or further study. Research never stops at wherever you achieved. Further work shows the continuing work and also the significance of your study, otherwise, there is no point if you will stop doing this topic after this paper. What else can be done to further improve or can this method be applied somewhere else. This should be the final paragraph of the entire paper and it is suggested that you conclude with very strong point, so that the readers or the reviewers finish reading with very good impression.

Another point worth mentioning is that always use up the full page limit for a conference, put as much information as you can as long as you can keep the consistence and the cohesion. Keep your paper as a logic story.

 

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