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focs-author-response
Use when managing author-side communication around a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) submission, where no rebuttal round exists — discharging objections inside the paper before submission, handling rare chair-mediated queries, and converting a rejection into a disciplined autumn resubmission.
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# FOCS Author Response
The FOCS 2026 CFP schedules no rebuttal, no discussion phase, and no
author-visible reviews before decisions (checked 2026-07-08; any informal
PC-initiated clarification in a given cycle: 待核实). At a venue with no
second turn, "author response" is a set of practices displaced in time:
persuasion happens *before* the deadline, correction happens *after* the
decision, and almost nothing happens in between. This skill covers all three
phases.
## Phase 1 — the pre-emptive rebuttal (before submission)
Write the objections you would rebut, then edit the paper until each is
answered where it would arise. Build the table with a co-author playing