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Computers & Graphics
University of Toronto April 30 2014
Top 10 ways to get your paper rejected
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Joaquim JorgeEiC Computers and Graphics
Journal Head of Group
Visualization and Multimodal Interfaces@ INESC-ID Lisboa
http://web.ist.utl.pt/jorgej
Research Interests: Calligraphic Interaction, Multimodal Interfaces, Graphical Modeling
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Writing is Important
GREAT ideas not enough
Need to Communicate them
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What I know about good writing
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What I know about bad writing
Author – papers rejected due to bad writing
Reviewer – many bad papers (1000+)
Editor – handled 1500+ as EiC
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The Journal in 2013
Published since 1975
EiC since 2007
Experience to share
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Lots of Submissions
698
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Quick Decisions
5 Weeks
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Reject Lots of Papers
82%
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Scientists MUST Write
Great ideas are worthless
if nobody can understand them
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Top 10 Ways to Get Your Paper Rejected
Make Editor’s life easier!
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Desk Rejects make us look good
Less Reviewers invited
Shorter response time
Higher rejection rate
Happier reviewers
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DO NOT READ THE INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
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Content
Pattern Recognition
Robotic Motion Controllers
Graph Theory
Algorithms for Neural Networks
Control Theory
Desk Reject
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Ignore the style instructions
Author names (CAG is double-blind)
Old-style manuscripts
Reviewers in Graphics are picky
Check requirements
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DO NOT CHECK FOR GRAMMAR OR SPELLING
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Sloppy!
Tehre is rseraceh taht sohws grammer or bad spllenig are not iapomrtnt
Tihs is bseauce the hamun mnid cmnepstoaes
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Sloppy writing
why bother ?
Reviewers turned off
It is not their responsibility to get it right
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PROVIDE NO MOTIVATION
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NO MOTIVATION
Present your results Out of the Blue Sky
Provide No Hints To
Origin of your ideas
Direction
Relevance
Practical Application
Why you are submitting
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NO BACKGROUND
Remove
Acknowledgements / References
Or, IF You Must
“Submitted”
“In Preparation”
“Private Communication”
“Well known” results published in Aramaic
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PROVIDE NO RESULTS
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NO RESULTS
If you provide no results it will be impossible to duplicate your work
Thus your assertions cannot be disproved
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Ignore the state of the art
Do not compare your work to others’
Who cares if Obscurovich et al [uncit] did the same 2 years ago ?
Saves a LOT of work (NOT!)
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Unsubstantiated Conclusions
Do not overreach
Do your data support your claims ?
Can you really claim your approach is free of limitations or shortcomings ?
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Can you provide
Code ?
Examples ?
Video ?
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Overstated Claims
Overselling a problem akin to lack of results
Will get your paper rejected
“Truth in advertising”
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IGNORE THE READER
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Audience knows as much as you
You know your contribution
So they know
you don’t need to write it!
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Audience knows as much as you
If you could do the research…
so should they (they’re experts, right?)
No need for details!
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Write for yourself
Write a “descriptive paper”
We did this, we did that, and we did that
other thing
A dump of your lab book Will Do Fine
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The 4 Don’ts
Don’t
discuss tradeoffs / alternatives
comment results
give insights
provide take-home messages
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WASTE SPACE WITH IRRELEVANT DETAILS
5
flickr.com/photos/dphiffer
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Small Details Are Important!
Spent 9 ½ weeks optimizing two lines of code?
The world needs to know about it!
Who cares about big ideas?
Real Authors ™ “If it was difficult to write…”
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Why describe your work ?
Hamilton’s quaternions are only 170 years old
Nobody knows about them, right ?
Dedicate at least two pages to explain in detail
journal papers are the stuff of textbooks, right ?
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OBFUSCATE YOUR WRITING
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Adopt a rambling style
Focus ? What focus ?
Provide at least 7 +- 2 ideas per page
Digress
Treat reviewers like mushrooms
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OBFUSCATE
Use the Passive Voice. Always. LOTS of acronyms Change notations: χ(ξ) instead of f(x)
Preferably mid-paper
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OBFUSCATE
No sentence smaller than a paragraph No paragraphs! Gender, Subject and Number should not
agree Use Footnotes
Recurse
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RESUBMIT YOUR REJECTED PAPER WITH NO CHANGES
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Resubmit AS IS
Do NOT make any changes to the rejected version
Unlikely that the Associate Editor or
Reviewers will be the same…
If they were, they would be PO’D
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Resubmit as IS
Personally OffendeD!
No kidding (I wish I could show)
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The 3Rs
Reduce – get rejected in NO TIME (thanks!)
Reuse – receive the Same Reviews
Recycle – and Rejection Slip!
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2PLAGIARIZE
flickr.com/photos/29233640@N07
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Need a previous work section?
Just copy somebody
else’s!
Or your own´s !
Reuse, Recycle,
Resubmit!
(see previous slide)
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RRR
Those people are The Specialists,
Unlikely to check, read or review your paper….
Right ?
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Plagiarize
Submit the same paper to different journals
and conferences
at the same time
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CONTRIBUTION ?
1
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Who needs a contribution ?
Make sure you write a boring paper
Do not bother to identify novelty
YAP (Yet Another Paper on…)
Do something similar to “X”
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Suggestions (new problems!)
255th paper on Hidden Line Removal
2D Boolean polygon intersection
-1 equality test / point
Optimize ‘60s Bresenham’s DDA algorithm
-1 integer product
Quaternion-Free 3D Arbitrary Rotation
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The Ten Commandments
10 Do Not read instructions
9 Do Not Proofread
8 Give no Motivation
7 Provide no Results
6 Ignore the Readers
5 Dwell on Unnecessary Details
4 Obfuscate Writing
3 Resubmit As Is
2 Plagiarize
1 Provide no Contribution
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How to write a better paper
Begin with the end in mind
Write the paper before carrying out the research
Write desired research outcomes before carrying out the experiments / coding
Focus early on the contribution
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Useful Pointers
How to have your abstract rejected by van Leunen & Lipton
www.sigsoft.org/conferences/vanLeunenLipton.htm
How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected by Jim Kajiya www.siggraph.org/publications/kajiya.pdf
How to Write a Paper by Ralph Martin
www.itn-insist.com/uploads/media/HowToWriteAPaper.pdf
How to Run a Paper Mill by John Woodwark
www.johnwoodwark.com/inge/docs/Pmill.pdf