Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:20:29
From: Lenimar Nunes de Andrade 
Subject: [JAMPA] Dicas para escrever ou entender trabalhos de pesquisa

Ola', pessoal!

    Circulou na semana passada na lista SBC-GRAF uma mensagem
que, entre outras coisas, apontava para a pagina
	  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/how-to.html
Esta pagina  e' intitulada  "Collected Advice on  Research and
Writing" e contem varios itens interessantes, como por exemplo:
"How to Organize your Thesis",  "Hints  on  good  mathematical
writing", "How To Have Your Abstract Rejected" etc.

    A pagina  tambem tem a  sua parte bem humorada. Ela aponta
para:
      "A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases"
      http://www.best.com/~smurman/soga/misc/research.html
E' um pequeno dicionario que traduz para a nossa linguagem de
simples mortais as frases em trabalhos serissimos "de pesquisa".
Vejam um trecho a seguir:


	RESEARCH PHRASE                           TRANSLATION
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Of great theoretical and practical         Interesting to me.
importance...
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Typical results are shown...               The best results are shown.
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It is generally believed that...           A couple of other people think
					   so too.
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Correct within an order of magnitude...    Wrong.
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Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for            Blotz did the work and Frink
assistance with the experiment and         explained to me what it meant.
to George Frink for valuable
discussions...
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[]'s, Lenimar N. Andrade