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RE: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)
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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 01:33, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > >Anyone who is interested in joining in on the writing is welcome to
> > >sign up as a co-author.
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> I would be interested in contributing to the paper. Do you have an outline
> yet and how to you propose to split the work among the contributors? Also
> what tools will you be using to publish this document?
We started our first draft with the intention of submitting it to the
SCM workshop; but due to lack of time, we didn't come close to being
able to finish it. So we decided to go for a longer journal paper, which
has the advantages that there's no deadline, and the paper can be a
whole lot longer. (Transactions on Software Engineering, for example,
has a size limit of 11,000 words. That's somewhere in the range of 20
pages.) So the size change dictates an outline change as well. I'm
working on an updated outline, which I'll try to send one out by
weekend.
We'll be writing the document in latex.
I tend to find that what works best for collaborative writing is
to have one person write an introduction and outline. Then other authors
choose sections to write from that outline, and try to take stylistic
cues from the intro. Then the person who wrote the outline puts
it all together, and takes the first full-document edit pass. After
that, others take edit passes, until everyone is at least basically
satisfied. If there's no rush, the other edit passes should be done
sequentially: that is, only one person is editing the document at any
time.
I'm not sure exactly how we'll split it up, but in general, I find the
best way to write papers collaboratively is to have one person write
an outline, and then have people select sections that they want to
write.
>
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Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
*** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration
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