THESIS & DISSERTATION WRITING WITH LaTeX/LyX PART II: WRITING BOOTCAMP

Event Date:
January 30, 2020 – 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Location:
Center for Graduate Life-Cone 268

For those who attended Dr. Willis’s workshop earlier this week or have already begun learning Latex or Lyx.

Are you spending hours formatting your thesis, dissertation, or other writing project? If so, please join us for this advanced LaTeX/LyX workshop. LaTeX is one of the most practical text editing tools available for technical and scientific documentation. If you are new to LaTeX, want to learn how to write more quickly please attend this workshop. Students that bring a laptop with LaTeX and LyX already installed will benefit most from this talk.

In this workshop you will learn:

(1) Advanced formatting of thesis documents. How to use of the “include” directive to manage/decompose large documents into smaller “child” documents; a divide-and-conquer strategy to writing.

(2) Examples of common LaTeX thesis pitfalls and challenging formatting circumstances.

This session has participants contribute to collaboratively forming a hypothetical thesis statement, creating a writing road map, and then getting started down that road by actually generating original content on this topic. This often includes demonstrations of how to: (i) create tables, figures, equations, sections and chapters, (ii) how to cross-reference these components to your document, (iii) how to get, check and use/include citations in your document and more.

Q & A: Comments on any LaTeX issues attendees are experiencing is discussed as time permits. Students will be encouraged to consider trying LyX for writing LaTeX documents.