Writing Papers

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Writing Papers for SAS User Group Conferences

A paper discusses a topic; within that topic is information: new ideas for the reader. Within library science, these two ideas are also known as theme and rheme.

1 List of Items in A Good Paper
2 Using LaTeX to write your SUG paper
3 Using Microsoft Word to write your SUG paper
4 Bibliography

[edit] List of Items in A Good Paper

Paper
1. title
2. abstract
3. introduction
4. body
5. bibliography
Presentation: an advertisement for the paper
1. concise review of topic and information
2. good delivery of presentation

[edit] Using LaTeX to write your SUG paper

What is LaTeX? A Document Preparation System

http://www.latex-project.org/

SAS User Group Conference Class file: sugconf.cls.

The layout produced by the 'sugconf' class is based on the description contained in SUGI paper guidelines, published by SAS Institute: (2006)

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/conferences/sugconf/

[edit] Using Microsoft Word to write your SUG paper

This is the most popular tool, reflecting its market dominance. Because of its wide use, some [most? all?] of the SUG conferences provide Word templates.