Writing Paper
In less than 3 days, I roughly sketched a 4-page paper. It was in a hurry, but after the last reading last night, somehow, I felt it was not that bad (maybe reading it too many times just get myself used to the awful stuff, really awful? oh, no:) ). Anyway, I mailed the draft to boss with full expectation.
Then boss came to me three times today: first time, “have you had a printed version?”; second time, “I printed out your pdf file but with illegible fonts”; finally, he came to me blahblah..
You should know what he said. There must be a word “but” and it appeared in the fisrt sentence, which means I’ve just got a half-sentence consoling praise :*( — ” partly the english, partly the style (forgot the exact word my boss used, something similar)…” “You should have a section like starting with “what you’ve got”, then “how compared to others”, and last “why is that”"…”tried to lead the reader finally realize what your point is and be convinced”
I didn’t want to say too much about “what the result is”. Because first, the results can be tabulated or plotted. Second, the description of the results will drain my limited vocabulary. I have explanations but may not be expressed as strongly as my boss expected, it’s not my style to restate something again and again and I am just lazy to analyze all the reasonings step by step, if possible, I will steal 2 or 3 steps. Again, partly the style, partly the english (not feeling well:( )
Anyway, boss will help me at late stage, but I still need to put more work on it. Let’s see, what I can get next time…
OHeHLium liang~ » Just some complaint on 05 Jun 2006 at 3:27 pm
[...] Later, there were some other papers coming out on this subject, indicating certain method as I thought did help improve the result. I then started to redo this project and finished it in March this year. Happily persuading my boss to prepare a paper on computational work alone, I began to write a draft (see writing paper) this time in addition to the outline, figures and tables. However, even though I had got a revision done, my boss changed his mind to prepare a paper only on my work but planned to add someother’s work in order to make it a better (high impactor) paper. [...]