From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Feb 8 09:49:33 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l18EnXA4010592 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:49:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l18EnNfP056905 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:49:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 12287 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 14:49:23 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 14:49:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 6948 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 14:49:23 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 14:49:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 8320 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 14:49:20 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 14:49:20 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3219863 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:49:20 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 27208 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 14:49:20 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 14:49:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 21392 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2007 14:49:19 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 8 Feb 2007 14:49:19 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l18EnJ4R010582 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:49:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l18EnJUH010581 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:49:19 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702081449.l18EnJUH010581@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:49:19 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: POSITION PAPER #1 To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1335; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2537/Thu Feb 8 05:22:43 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 750 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: POSITION PAPER #1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A student writes: | I was reading over your 'How to Write' document, and was just curious if we | should follow all of those rules in our 1 page position paper. Obviously, | things like grammar and formatting are to be followed, but it says to | include an abstract, and possible intro, and I think fitting these in, along | with the arguments we have, will be very difficult to do in ~250 words. | Thanks. Quite right, and thanks for bringing this up. The position papers do NOT need either an abstract or an intro. You can jump right into the analysis of the argument.