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This describes how to _shorten_ your paper (which is useful to get it within page budgets). This is not how to write "short papers", which is a term generally u
by azhenley 9y ago
This describes how to _shorten_ your paper (which is useful to get it within page budgets). This is not how to write "short papers", which is a term generally used for lesser papers with a shorter page budget, as opposed to a "full" or "long" paper.
If you want tips on how to condense a paper: shrink figures and tables, put multiple charts into a single figure, reduce the space between captions and figures, omit parentheticals, and shorten lists of references (e.g., [3, 4, 7, 11, 15]). At the cost of readability, you can also begin removing transitional phrases and examples.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoSentences can almost always be optimized to reduce wordiness, you can almost always make a paper shorter and more readable, it is only a matter of how much time you have to do this. As Blaise Pascal once said “I only made this letter longer because I had not the leisure to make it shorter.”
- 52-6F-62 9y agoThis little tool is a favourite of mine when I'm in a time crunch, or firing off an email that begins to seem a little wordy, long, or washed-out: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ (Larger context behind the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory) Of course the theory itself applies more directly to fiction, but that little tool can be useful to aid thinking through the process of editing.