As per title, which one is a better way to go:
to write the Related Work
part right after Introduction
and before System Architecture
OR
to write the System Architecture
right after Introduction
and dump Related Work
in the end just before the Conclusion
?
In my field, I have read both ways. I personally find Related Work
a bit unnecessary and I usually skip them while reading a paper. It is reasonable in the sense that a researcher would have already read nearly all the related work within his or her field. So he or she may not bother to read those sections of the similar papers.
In this sense, I prefer to adopt the latter that dumps this part at the end. However, I see most of the papers that I have read adopted the former.
What are the pros and cons of these two approaches? How do I choose wisely?
I am in EECS field, but any generic advice is also very much welcomed