Throughout my PhD, I collected writing advice from all my different mentors. Because this list could be useful not only to me, I am sharing this advice as a writing guide here.

I mainly write HCI systems or human-behavior style papers. But there are many more kinds of papers in HCI. So this writing guide may or may not apply to your writing. I also just describe my own style here, and there are many ways to write a great HCI paper.

Mindset
Whenever you write, the most important is to have the right mindset. Don’t write to show off how smart you...