CS 422: Paper Review Guidelines
The goals of the homework are to encourage students:
- to keep up with the reading assignments,
- to think critically and creatively during reading
The homework format is the following.
- Each student writes a short (roughly 1/2 page) "observation" of
the assigned reading.
Turn in an on-line version by sending mail to the TA
before the class
during which the assigned reading is to be discussed.
- Each student is expected to turn in a total of 10 such
observations during the semester.
The observations will be posted on the web. Class
participants can read each others' posts.
In terms of contents, the paper observation can be anything a
student feels like saying about the paper, as long as it is not
some sort of dry summary. This is to discourage people from lifting
boring stuff from the abstract, the introduction, or the conclusion of
the paper. Here are some possible ideas of a paper observation:
- Pointing out weaknesses of the paper;
- Asking questions;
- Speculating on how the paper can be improved;
- Designing a new experiment to augment the study;
- An interesting future direction (not mentioned by the paper);
- Comparison against a related paper;
- Really, anything at all. Basically say something clever!
Current list of papers to be reviewed