UMBC CMSC 601 Spring 2011
Basic Research Skills

Homework 2: Summarizing a paper

out 2/2, due 2/9

This exercise asks you to summarize a paper in a two page document. As an example consider the paper The structure of scientific collaboration networks by M. E. J. Newman. Here is a short summary (tex) produced by Professor desJardins and a short powerpoint presentation. Read our paper summary guidelines advoce on ow to approach this.

Choose one of the paper from the list below. Using LaTex, write up a short summary and submit both your source file and pdf output.