Wanting to do research?

You would like to do research? Maybe your MSc or PhD? You love to discover new things? To propose new innovative ideas? You like the areas of Service Science, Business Process Management, Information Systems, and Semantic Web?

Then you should send my an e-mail (jcardoso hhatte dei.uc.pt) and/or we should have a chat (office D2.20). I always have a couple of interresting topics to be explored.

Writting a Paper

The Ten Commandments for writing academic papers
Julienne Hanson, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, November, 1988

How to write a great research paper
Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research.

Editor's View: an opportunity for editors of IS journals to relate their experiences and offer advice.
The Editorial View of Ray J Paul. First in a series.

The Top 10 Reasons Why Manuscripts Are Not Accepted for Publication (Medical domain)
David J Pierson MD FAARC

The points your paper should address

• Is the research new?
• Is the research interesting?
• Is the research significant to the field of research?
• Does it clearly motivate and clearly formulate the research question?
• Does it identify the significant problems in the field of research?
• Does it outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions?
• Does it present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far?
• Does it sketch the research methodology that is applied?
• Does it point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution?
• Does it state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem?
• Does it state how the expected results will be evaluated or compared to existing approaches to the problem?
• Does it state how and by whom the expected results can be applied?

Writting a Thesis

WRITING RESEARCH THESES OR DISSERTATIONS (guidelines and tips)
School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

How to write references
Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET.