Scientific Writing

Autumn 2011
0368-4000

Details

Requirements

Resources

1. Links
2. Course Wiki

Lessons

1. 2 November
   

   • Write Research Summary
   • Hans Rosling on Animated Stats
   • Quiz #1

2. 9 November

   • Articles
   • Quiz #2
   
   
3. 16 November
   
   
   
   • Commas (Alex)
     
   • Mathematical Writing
   • Knuth's Mathematical Writing
     
   • Toby Walsh on Paper Writing
     
   • Your Abstracts

4. 23 November

   • Colons and Semicolons (Yaron K)
   • Uri's Lecture
   • Guidelines
   • Presenting
   • Ian Parberry's Speaker's Guide
   • Visual Aids
   • Colors in Scientific Writing
   • Online Check for Colors
   • Download Check for Colors

5. 30 November

   • Capitalization (Sasha)
   • Tenses (Shir)
   • Pronunciation
   • Th
     
   • Poster Specification: due 13 Dec.
   • Posters in LaTeX (Cambridge) (Beamer)
   • Template for Powerpoint
     

6. 7 December

   • Quotations (Yaron O)
   • On Posters
   • Poster Guidelines
   • How to Make a Good Poster
   • Poster Tips

7. 14 December

   • Extended Abstract (click for detailed instructions): due 27 Dec.
   • How to Write an Abstract
   • More how-tos

8. 21 December

• Conditionals (Livnat)
• How to Write a Paper
• Titles (Good and Bad)
• Organization

9. 28 December

• Singular & Plural (Rinat)
• Texisms (Source)
• On Reviewing
• How to Review

10. 4 January

    • Email etiquette (Amir)

11. 11 January

    • Prepositions (Yuval)
    • Common errors (Raphy)

12. 18 January

    • Why?
    • Advice for the Young Researcher
    • More punctuation (Taron V)

13. 25 January

    • Quiz
    • Tufte on Powerpoint
    • Powerpoint and the Shuttle Disaster
      
    • Final assignment: introduction to thesis (click for details)
      
    • Use TAU-CS thesis format
      
    • Guidelines (comments welcome)
    • Latex style (comments welcome)
    • Word template (volunteer needed)
      
    • An example of a nice thesis (in preparation)
      
    • How to Write a Thesis

14. 1 February -- No class

Student Presentations

5. 30 Nov.: Livnat
6.   7 Dec.: Yaron V
7. 14 Dec.: Rinat; Yuval
8. 21 Dec.: Yaron K; Yaron O
9. 28 Dec.: Eugene
10.   4 Jan.: Raphy
11. 11 Jan.: Amir; Sasha
12. 18 Jan.:
13. 25 Jan.: Alex

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