How to write a research paper

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. --- Gene Fowler A major goal of this course is the development of effective technical writing skills. To help you become an accomplished writer, you will prepare several research papers based upon the studies completed in lab. Written and oral communications skills are probably the most universal qualities sought by graduate and professional schools as well as by employers. Resources for learning technical writing Before you begin your first writing assignment, please consult all of the following resources, in order to gain the most benefit from the experience. As you polish up your writing skills please make use of the following resources Instructor feedback on previous assignments Common errors in student research papers Selected writing rules (somewhat less serious than the other resources) General form of a research paper General style To make a paper readable Mistakes to avoid Style

LAPACK — Linear Algebra PACKage LAPACK is written in Fortran 90 and provides routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems. The associated matrix factorizations (LU, Cholesky, QR, SVD, Schur, generalized Schur) are also provided, as are related computations such as reordering of the Schur factorizations and estimating condition numbers. Dense and banded matrices are handled, but not general sparse matrices. The original goal of the LAPACK project was to make the widely used EISPACK and LINPACK libraries run efficiently on shared-memory vector and parallel processors. LAPACK routines are written so that as much as possible of the computation is performed by calls to the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS). Highly efficient machine-specific implementations of the BLAS are available for many modern high-performance computers. Acknowledgments:

The University of York - IEEE referencing style Download Click here to download the IEEE style Guide. As used in: Computer Science and Electronics References are numbered in [ ] as sources are introduced in your writing. A full reference list with sources listed according to the order used in the paper is then provided with full source details. Page numbers are required with citations where material is directly quoted or you refer to a specific part of the source, such as a detail difficult to find. These examples are intended to guide your referencing, but it is extremely important to check and follow your Department's specific regulations as they may have alternative preferred formats. An A to Z of IEEE example citations and references In-text: After the title of graph/table/figure, written in CAPITAL LETTERS, give the citation number for the source and the page number the item appears on.

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