a quick note on contributions; contributions have a specific argumentative format; a contribution can be an algorithm, a framework, a methodology, a highly significant empirical finding
but..
each paper contribution has four parts to the argument:
state the contribution; e.g. we developed a linear time algorithm
contrast with prior work; e.g. In contrast, the state of the art is by smith et. al. who developed algorithm Y that had quadratic time complexity.
the key insight for our algorithm was...
our algorithm (or method, or finding) is significant because...
papers typically have 2-3 contributions; of course you can have more, but arguing for four significant contributions is hard.
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but..
each paper contribution has four parts to the argument: