Writing tips for modern Academic Writing

A curated list of resources for writing papers in AI, computer vision, and related fields.

🧭 Principles

• Simple and direct. A paper exists to transfer information, not to show off prose. Use short sentences, plain words, and as few nested clauses as possible.
• Figures first. If an idea can be shown as a figure, show it. A reader should get the core message of a figure within 30 seconds. See Figure 1 of HED and FCN, and Figures 1–2 of Attention Is All You Need.
• Math is a simplifier. If a process can be written as an equation, write it as one.
• Fixed content in fixed places. Contributions at the end of the introduction, implementation details at the start of experiments, ablations at the end. Reviewers know where to look.
• Cite every claim. Each claim is supported either by your own experiments or by a reference. Prefer the formally published version over the arXiv version.

Figures

1. figures4papers — Python scripts for high-quality figures in top AI conferences and journals