EAWC | Listening, note-taking and summary

Listening and note-takingTips for note-taking:Don't take notes just for taking notes. Take it in an valuable and worthy way.Concentrate on important words (usually nouns, verbs, etc.) that give important information to you.Omit unimportant words.Have a consistent system for punctuation and abbreviation that will make sense to you. (It's unnecessary to make sense for others)Make the best of abbreviations, symbols and shapes.Summary writingGist: the main or essential part Summary: a comprehensive

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-22

EAWC | Seminar discussion and presentation

Discussion skillsEffective discussion should be:Be an attentive audienceA discussion should have a conclusion (decisions), otherwise it is an ineffective discussionTips for participating a discussion:For freshmen:ask a question so that the speaker can clarify or elaborate on a point that you don't understandask cause-and-effectFor junior students:explain that you find the speaker's opinions or points interesting and describe whybased on what the speaker had said and extend his opinion / pointspa

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-15

EAWC | Results, discussion, conclusion & poster presentation

Final part of paper writingSection of resultsIn this section, specific data of the work and detailed analysis of the data should be fully presented.Three moves to write results part:Provide preparatory informationDescribe the data in figures and tablesReport the results based on the dataWriting requirements for results:any data given in this section must be meaningfulpresentation of the data should be short without verbiage and be crystal claritythis section should also be well-written and shoul

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-08

DCN | Semi-Markovian system

M/G/1 queuing systemG means general distribution / more general situation. In this case, service time of the server has a general distribution with mean $X=E[x ]=1/\mu$ and standard deviation $\sigma_x$, where $mu$ is the mean service rate (services per second, etc.)Mean waiting time for a service request can be described by P-K formula: $$W=\frac{\lambda E[x^2]}{2(1-\rho)} $$ Using Little's Law, we can obtain the mean number of service requests in the buffer: $$N_Q=\lambda W=\frac{\lambda^2 E[x

Data communication networks · 2024-11-05

EAWC | Introduction, methods & editing

How to write a good introductionImportancemost read partdetermine the attitude of readerthe most dedicate partThe earlier you write the introduction part, the more you have to polish in the end. It's greatly suggested writing the introduction part after you finish the main body or at least the draft of your whole paper.Writing grammarTensePresent Simple/Present Continuous: this pair is used to state accepted facts and truths.Past Simple/Present Perfect: this pair is used to discuss the knowledge

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-11-01

EAWC | Paper publication process

Paper publication issuesCategories of papers:General articleTheoretical articleTechnical articleReport of significant achievementsOther kinds of articlesClassification of journals:JournalRapid communication / lettersReviewProceedingsOther technical documents: standard, patent, etc.Procedures of paper submission:In advance: Choose target journalsnecessary selection: read few published papers in this journal, it's better done before writing your paperone paper can only be submitted to one journal

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-10-25

DCN | Queuing models in data link networks

Ergodic process:As nothing is neither generated or lost in the queuing system, the arrival rate of packages equals to the departure rate.Little's LawStochastic processes and Markov chainsGiven appropriate state space and time variable, a stochastic process can be properly described. If the time variable is discrete, the process is called discrete-time process; otherwise, it's called continuous-time process.$\mu$ is the number of customers that can be served at one time (serving rate) $\lambda$

Data communication networks · 2024-10-25

EAWC | Acknowledgement, citation, paraphrasing and summary writing

Acknowledgement writingAcknowledgement is the last section of the body. It is set to express the author appreciation. This part is quite emotional and subjective.Components for acknowledgement: most important teachers, financial aids, financial support from foundation, research group (grant, fellowship, scholarship), other helps, friends, colleagues, families (but no boyfriend/girlfriend)Linguistic features of acknowledgement: being brief, polite, specific, first person, active voice, titles and

English for academic writing and communication · 2024-10-25