How to write a journal article

Make your article a story
Detailed description
Functional description
Test Results/ Validation
Background/ Lit review
Economic & IP Analysis
Introduction
Summary/Conclusion

Introduction
Why this awesome project happened

Summary and Literature review
Other people may have helped my awesome project along

What is a summary/ lit review?Why do I need one?
Someone did something that made you want to do this project – talk about it
Someone has probably done something similar in the past
Someone has probably designed or created some of the bits your project uses

Cite with Style
IEEE: http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/
Examples: http://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecitationref.pdf

Example: In-text
Bockelman [1] and Lowe-Wincentsen [2] both postulate that student authors learn how to write proper citations. In her Copyright 101 talk, Lowe-Wincentsen [2], states that plagiarism can be avoided through proper use of citations. The Library website [3] has many resources to help format citations.

Examples: Reference page
Book:
[1] J. K. Author, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of His Published Book, xth ed. City of Publisher, Country if not USA: Abbrev. of Publisher, year, ch.x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.
Journal/ Conference:
[2] J. K. Author, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year.
Web page:
[3] Author(s). “Title.” Internet: complete URL, date updated [date accessed].

Functional description
This is my project, it does these awesome things

Detailed description
My Project is so Awesome you will never believe how awesome it is. Give details about awesome things 1 – 1,000about my project

Test results and Validation
To prove my project’s awesomeness, I tested it

Economic and IP Analysis
These things add up, but who can put a price on Awesomeness?

Summary/ Conclusion
All the whos down in Whoville will sing about how awesome this project is.

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How to write a journal article

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