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1# The Press-Release Principle (Paper as Press Conference)
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3## One-line principle
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5A paper is a press conference, not a project summary, a lab log, or a self-audit.
6Your job is not to present every aspect of the work evenly, but to identify its
7most publishable value and build the most favorable, complete, and persuasive
8narrative around it.
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10## 1. Narrative rules
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121. **Organize the paper around strengths only.** Look for what is genuinely ahead,
13   unique, or irreplaceable: a new capability, a new problem, a new mechanism, a new
14   perspective, broader applicability, lower cost, higher efficiency, better
15   scalability, or a more meaningful trade-off. Content that forms no advantage
16   does not enter the main storyline.
172. **Do not write a work report.** No "we first did X, then tried Y, and Z failed"
18   chronology. Keep only the final standing logic: why the problem matters → why
19   existing methods fall short → what this paper provides → how the evidence
20   supports it.
213. **Never set a contest you cannot win.** If a metric is not your strength, do not
22   build the narrative on it. Re-choose the task definition, evaluation dimension,
23   application scenario, constraint, or comparison frame that best reflects your
24   value. Name the game this paper actually wins.
254. **State the advantage explicitly.** Do not expect reviewers to discover the
26   contribution from a table. Explain: under which condition the method performs
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