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osdi-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising an OSDI paper's prose and structure — building the pain → abstraction → mechanism → measurement narrative, fitting it into the 12-page reviewed body with no appendix escape hatch, and writing for a PC told to down-rank padded papers and given no rebuttal to clarify with.
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# OSDI Writing Style
Shape the paper the way OSDI reviewers read. Format numbers below are the OSDI '26
rules (12 reviewed pages including figures and tables, unlimited references, no
appendices at submission — verified 2026-07-08); recheck the live CFP before trusting
any of them for a later cycle.
## The narrative arc
An OSDI paper is an argument that a design decision was right, carried by a built
system. The arc, section by section:
1. **Pain** — something operational breaks, stalls, or costs money, and the trend
makes it worse. Not "X is important."