Re: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stellation-res" <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)


> 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
Does this mean that all markup has to done by hand and that I need to learn
the Latex system. I am used to preparing initial documents in MS-Word and
then converting to Acrobat for distribution to cross-platform environments.

> 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.
> >
>
>
>
Regards

Jonathan

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