Summary and Discussion Guidelines, Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University

Summary and Discussion Guidelines: a work in progress
Created by Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University, hammond at cs dot tamu dot edu

Summary Rubric:

Brevity: Writing should be as short as possible, Length should be appropriate: between a paragraph and a page

Clarity: Writing should be clear and understandable to someone who hasn’t read the paper

Completeness: Writing should include main/significant/important concepts from paper

Completeness: Writing should function as a reference: If you later need to access information from the paper, it should be in the summary

Completeness: Writing should include information necessary to implement ideas

Discussion Rubric:

Why is this paper interesting or significant?

What are the faults of this work?

What is the possible future work extending from this work: i.e., if you had implemented this work, what would be your next steps – either continuing or fixing this work, taking some of these ideas and applying them to others’/your work, or starting new work from some of these ideas.