This course requires you to submit 8 critical reviews for papers. You are also require to decide the area in which you will be doing your project/term-paper. You will also be required to lead presentations of papers.
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- This is around 2 pages
- 1’ margins, Times Roman 11, and single-spaced
- The objective is not to defend the paper
- Poke and probe this paper to see if (where and when) things fall apart
- Include a 1 paragraph (¼ page) summary of the key concepts in the paper
- This is not a rewording of the abstract of the paper
- This something that your peers who have also read the paper can appreciate
- Identify the crux of this paper
- And also the trade-off space within which proposed solution will work
- What are the possible inefficiencies in this approach?
- How can we address them?
- Construct situations that cause things to break
- If you could redesign components, how would you?
- What are the possible extensions to this work?
- It is OK to come in from left-field and propose significant changes
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Critical Review Submissions:
The critical review must include your name and should be submitted via e-mail as a PDF document.
The file naming convention is: CR<reviewnumber>_<FirstnameLastname>_<AbbrevOfPaperTitle>.pdf
e.g. CR1_JohnSmith_GFS.pdf or CR2_JohnSmith_Dynamo.pdf
These submissions should be received at 11:59 am on the first day of the paper discussion.
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