Evaluating Research Papers

If you are enrolled in CSE 464, then you must read several papers and submit written reviews by the specified deadline. Late submissions will not be accepted. Your evaluations should have the following form:

  • Your name.
  • Paper title and author(s).
  • What problem does the paper address?
  • Two (or more) most important new ideas in the paper, and why.
  • What is the approach used to solve the problem?
  • How does the paper support or otherwise justify its arguments and conclusions?
  • Two ways the paper could be improved, and why.
  • Two important, open research questions on the topic, and why they matter.

    • You must submit evaluations as a PDF file. You should upload the evaluations to the online Catalyst dropbox. Your evaluation for each reading must be less than one page long, be single-spaced, use 12pt font, and have at least 1 inch margins; We expect for most paper evaluations to be approximately 1/2 to 3/4 pages long. You are welcome to, and in fact encouraged to, discuss the papers with other students in the class. However, you must write the evaluations on your own.