POPL 2025
Sun 19 - Sat 25 January 2025 Denver, Colorado, United States
Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:00 - 16:45 at Peek-A-Boo - Fourth Session Chair(s): Leonidas Lampropoulos

Learning to write well is an essential part of becoming a successful researcher. Unfortunately, many researchers find it very hard to write well because they do not know how to view their text from the perspective of the reader. In this talk, we present a simple set of principles for good writing, based on an understanding of how readers process information. Unlike such platitudes as “Be clear” or “Omit needless words”, our principles are constructive: one can easily check whether a piece of text satisfies them, and if it does not, the principles suggest concrete ways to improve it.

Tue 21 Jan

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16:00 - 17:30
Fourth SessionPLMW @ POPL at Peek-A-Boo
Chair(s): Leonidas Lampropoulos University of Maryland, College Park
16:00
45m
Talk
How to Write Papers So People Can Read Them
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Derek Dreyer MPI-SWS
16:45
45m
Panel
PLMW Panel
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Ronald Garcia University of British Columbia, Mike Dodds Galois, Inc, Alexandre Moine New York University, Jenna DiVincenzo (Wise) Purdue University