The assignment

So the next task is:
Pick a topic to do research on and complete a paper for submission to a conference or journal. Lots of places to find information on this but I am going to start here as I will first need to learn how to do this. There is a good site at OOPSLA that can tell me how to get a paper accepted http://www.sigplan.org/oopsla/oopsla96/how93.html. I see the acceptance rate for papers can be very low (10-15%). This can be due to several factors such as a large amount of submissions for a specific topic, poor structure of the paper, standards not being met, etc.