Archive of posts with category 'Authoring'
Do's and Don'ts in Technical Reports about Term and Thesis Projects
Springtime is thesis writing time in many universities. This post shares editorial advice from thesis reviewers and provides a checklist of questions they tend to ask. It does not claim...
Research Methods and Peer Review Advice
Which level of research rigor and result maturity is required to satisfy paper reviewers? I shared tips how to write for reviewability and how to review before. Here are some...
Shorthand and Markup for Speedy Note-Taking and Review Comments
I review documents a lot, and I attend many meetings too. Creating meeting minutes or review comments ain’t fun; the same holds for processing them. Over the years, I have...
Reports of Insights, Stories and Experience Reports
News (7/2025): Hello “Dear Researchers”! I now co-edit this fairly new column in the Journal of Software and Systems together with Austin Henley. Learn about it in this post.
How to Write Review-Friendly Articles
Scientific and technical writing is hard and requires deliberate practice. I already blogged about some of the challenges. Here is some more advice.
Conference Updates: ECSA, ICSA, SummerSoC, EuroPLoP 202x
Difficult times for conference organizers… ECSA 2020 and Microservices 2020, two events I helped organize in 2020, took place online. What is happening in 2021?
Technical Writing Tips and Tricks
When authoring specifications, technical documentation or articles, many pitfalls wait for authors (and, as a consequence, their readers) — but there are ways around them. In this post, I’ll highlight...