 | WRITING A CONTROL PAPER
Do not be fancy about the title.
It may seem cool to have a clever and unusual title,
but it will be much more difficult to find using Google.
Joao P. Hespanha
ABSTRACT:
The abstract of a paper should contain a description of the problem addressed, a statement of the
main result, a key conclusion that you want to highlight, and perhaps some comment on an application/
numerical example included. One or two sentences for each of these items should be suffcient.
The abstract should not include literature reviews, should not attempt to justify why the problem is
important/timely, and should not discuss problems not solved in the paper.
Abstracts are often included in searchable databases and therefore should be self-contained, with
neither bibliographic citations nor references to gures/tables in the paper. Since they are often automatically
converted to pure text, equations and non-text symbols should be avoided.
The above paragraphs are not an appropriate abstract for this paper. A more suitable abstract would
be:
"The general structure of a technical paper in the control systems area is discussed. Our aim
is to assist students/researchers that are starting to write technical papers for peer reviewed
conferences or journals. We provide examples of what to include and what not to include in
each section of a technical paper."
Note that I did not start any sentence with "In this paper, . . . " This construction is generally
redundant and one can simply drop these three words. This also applies to the introduction and remaining
sections of the paper. http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~hespanha/published/writingpapers.pdf
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