Technical Writing Workshop

Technical Writing Workshop

A series of informal workshops designed to help you write papers faster, more efficiently .. and with less errors to slow down acceptance! The workshops are informal: although KRIS has asked you to sign up, you may join any workshop that seems interesting to you. You may also suggest topics that you would like discussed. The notes on "Fake Journals" are in response to one question in the first session, please feel free to ask for any other questions to be answered.

Resources

TitleNotes, SlidesDate
Introduction, HypothesesLecture 1May 16
Fake JournalsLecture 2May 23
Direct Active WritingLecture 2aMay 23
LaTeXLaTeXJune 6
LaTeX examples
PDF Notes
AbstractsAbstractsJune 13
Words to avoidWords to avoid
PresentationsPresentationsJune 20
Graphs and TablesTablesJune 27
Graphs
Example paper Class use only: Not for general distribution
Responding to Reviews; RejectionsReview ResponsesJuly 4
Presentation practice
General Review		Lecture 8??
Reverse Workshop ... Improve John's Thai Language
Everyday Word ListWord ListMay 23

LaTeX Workshop

If possible, please bring a laptop for this workshop. We will try to get your first LaTeX paper started. You should instal on your computer:
Download from the Web LaTeX files Miktex
Any LaTeX editor TeXworks
or
TeXstudio
Download from KRIS Simple Test document test.tex
It may be efficient to work together with a partner (one who can type fast!) for this workshop: so you only need one computer with LaTeX installed per group.

Of course, if you have a paper ready to try, then bring the paper, as plain text (ie no complex formatting). Just type your text with any editor (including Word, but save as a text file) or use the LaTeX editor in TeXworks or TeXstudio. Type the section headings in plain text on a separate line. Put a blank line between every paragraph. You could try using the simple template in text.tex, and fill in some of your own text. Most of the markup directions will be obvious, i.e. for a section, place your own section heading in the curly braces: replace "Section Two"

\section{Section Two}
with your text
\section{Experimental Method}