Tutor: Dr Christopher Cooling
Course Level: Level 2
Prerequisites: You should be familiar with the key concepts of LaTeX and/or should have attended the Introduction to LaTeX Graduate School course
Course Duration: 3 hour session
Format: Microsoft Teams with live teaching and hands-on practice

Description

Your thesis is likely to be the longest technical document you have ever compiled and can seem a daunting task. But if done well, you will leave behind a lasting record of your achievements. This workshop explores how LaTeX can be used to typeset a thesis in a professional and aesthetic way, which conforms to the Imperial College guidelines. You will practise using a variety of LaTeX packages, will receive personalised feedback on your typesetting, and will leave with your thesis template.

Syllabus:

• Thesis requirements
• Page numbering
• Margins
• Footnotes
• Line spacing
• Title pages
• Thesis preamble
• Tables of contents
• Appendices
• Splitting your document
• Hyperlinks
• Graphicspath
• Subfigures
• Custom commands
• Acronyms
• Bibliogrpahy Management

The course will be delivered through a combination of slides, and hands-on practicals.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Identify an array of useful LaTeX packages 
• Recognise when and how to split large documents into manageable subdocuments 
• Employ custom formatting and referencing 
• Assess and respond to LaTeX compiler output 
• Develop a full thesis template

Materials
Pre-Course setup

Dates

• Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-17:00, Microsoft Teams
• Wednesday 09 June 2021, 10:00-13:00, Microsoft Teams

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