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stoc-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) paper — the theorem-forward first page, informal/formal statement pairing, the technical-overview section that carries acceptance, notation economy for a cross-area committee, and prose that survives the twelve guaranteed pages.
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# STOC Writing Style
A STOC submission is read by two different people you must satisfy at once: a
program-committee member from a neighboring sub-area deciding whether the result
is a big deal, and a specialist subreviewer deciding whether it is true. STOC's
reading contract (abstract + table of contents + first twelve pages guaranteed;
STOC 2026 CFP, checked 2026-07-08) forces both conversations into the same
window. The house style below is how successful papers manage that.
## The first page: theorem before context
Theory flagship papers state the result almost immediately, then earn it.
The standard device is the informal/formal pair:
