Simple skeleton of a review paper

1. Writing a Review
Paper Workshop
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A humble sharing by:
Khirulnizam Abd Rahman
bit.ly/skeletonreview

2. Objective
 Main: all participants must produce a simple academic article or proceeding,
or a review paper.
 5 pages only including the references (Times New Roman, 12 points, 1 ½
spacing).
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3. Simple Skeleton of A Review Paper
 Title
 Affiliation
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Previous Works
 Conclusion
 References
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4. Read lot of
Samples
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5. Abstract (pg 1) 5

6. Introduction (pg 2) 6

7. Terminologies / Definitions (pg 3) 7

8. Previous Works (pg 5) 8

9. Summary of
Previous Works
(pg 6)
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10. Conclusion (pg 9) 10

11. References (pg 10)
 APA citation styles - https://www.library.cornell.edu/research/citation/apa
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12. Experience is the Best Teacher
 Let remind ourselves, the main objective of this workshop is to produce a
simple academic article or proceeding, or a review paper.
 5 pages only including the references (Times New Roman, 12 points, 1 ½
spacing).
 Don’t make it right, make it written… (Dr OT)
 So… just write...
 All the best lah!
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13. Questions
 bear in mind that you are not in a Developing Question Skills Workshop,
it’s OK if you have no question :)
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14. Example
(Exercise)
 Title
 A Review of IDIOM AUTOMATED DETECTION
 Affiliation
 Abstract (no citation needed – normally the last thing to do)
 What is Idiom (in brief).
 Why automated detection for Idiom is important (in brief).
 Objective of the paper (in brief).
 Name approaches of Idiom automated detection to be discussed.
 Which approach best suited the research (in brief).
 Introduction
 Elaborate the objective of the paper.
 Explain Idiom.
 Explain Automated Detection of Idiom.
 Previous Works
 Discuss thoroughly these approaches; type based extractions, token-based classification and token-
based detection.
 Other approaches to consider; Look up table / hash table, N-Gram, bag of words, finite-state machine.
 Summary of important approaches in a table (do this later).
 Conclusion
 Synopsis of the paper.
 Decide which is the best for the current research - elaborate.
 References
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