| Week |
Topic |
| 1 |
Choosing and evaluating research topics; types of technical papers |
| 2 |
Motivating a problem and writing an introduction |
| 3 |
Researching and writing about related work |
| 4 |
Describing a system and algorithms |
| 5 |
Designing and writing about experiments |
| 6 |
Presenting data and results: tables, graphs, figures, and captions |
| 7 |
Writing a discussion section: alternatives, limitations, etc. |
| 8 |
Presenting conclusions and suggesting future work |
| 9 |
Writing an abstract |
| 10 |
Writing useful reviews |
| 11 |
Crafting a research talk |
| 12 |
Wrapup and retreat |
