• Lecturer: Prof. Amitava Datta
• Email: datta@csse.uwa.edu.au
• Semester: 1st
• Points: 6
• Formal Contact: 9-11am on Wednesdays
• Total Workload: 10 hours per week
• Unit outline
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Lecture topics

Material for 2009

1. LaTeX (pdf and Powerpoint, LaTeX source and pdf output)
2. General writing skills (pdf and Powerpoint)
3. Inclusion of symbolic terms (pdf and Powerpoint)
4. Composition (pdf and Powerpoint)
5. Writing a paper (pdf and Powerpoint)
6. Revising a draft (pdf and Powerpoint)
7. Publishing a paper (pdf and Powerpoint)
8. Designing and analysing experiments (pdf and Powerpoint)
9. Citations and References (pdf and Powerpoint)
10. Giving a talk (pdf, Powerpoint, and EMO talk)
11. Designing and writing a web page (pdf and Powerpoint, cheat sheet from Kuraman Creative)
12. Writing a thesis (pdf and Powerpoint)
13. Writing a CV (pdf). A workshop conducted by the UWA Careers Centre

Some useful links

• The LaTeX Home Page
• An Online Guide to LaTeX
• Psfig/TeX
• Hypertext Help with LaTeX
• The Elements of Style
• UWA's Policy on the Use of Non-Discriminatory Language
• Pointers on giving a talk
• UWA's Library Guide to Harvard Reference Style
• The ACM Computing Classification System (1998)
• HTML Goodies
• Plain English Campaign
• How to Read an Engineering Paper
• Advice for Designing Scientific Posters

Assessment

• Assignment 1 (due 24 March 2009)
  
• Assignment 2 (due 27 April 2009)
  
• Assignment 3 (due 18 May 2009)
  
• Assignment 4 (due 27 May 2009)
  
  
• Marking Criteria
  
  
• Portfolio (due 5 June 2009)

Exercises

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6
• Exercise 7
• Exercise 8
• Exercise 9
• Exercise 10
• Exercise 11

Class resources

• LaTeX template for a Research Proposal
• The Seminar Page
• My Check Mate
• The Greek Alphabet
• The CSHonours Latex template (pdf notes)
• Proposal for New English
• LaTeX source for paper template
• The Different Types of Research