Assignment 1: Find a paper

Before you begin

• Go over the module Skill: How to find research papers if you did not attend the lecture on Week 1.

Description

Your assignment this week is to simply find a research paper that you would like to read given your current research interests. While the intention of the assignment is to prepare a paper for when we move onto later modules (on skimming, reading, summarizing, presenting academic papers), this is not a binding commitment. If you are undecided, you can list multiple papers. For later assignments, we will have a smaller list of papers to choose from but that list is not fixed yet; the paper(s) that you find could end up on that list. And you can change your chosen paper, or even your topic of interest later in the class.

For each paper that you choose, collect or note down the following information:

• Title, authors, publication venue, year of the paper

• Link to a PDF of the paper. If the paper is not publicly available on the web, you can download the paper, put it on Google drive, and share a link from there.

• How did you find the paper? 

  • Example answers: from the lab/personal webpage of XYZ; from a conference webpage; from Google Scholar/Semantic Scholar with keywords X, Y, Z

• Why did you choose this paper (versus others you encountered during your search)? 

  • Example answers: I'm interested in X, Y, Z; this was the most cited paper on topic X; it has a cool title; it looks easier to read

Submission

This assignment is due on October 9, 2023 Monday 11:59pm.

Please submit a text entry on GradeScope with your answers to the four bullets above for each paper that you find.