Transcript Writing Skills –Part 2
Writing Skills –Part 2
Technical Issues
Content vs Presentation
• Content is always more important than presentation!
• Good presentation can enhance impact and intelligibility
Formatting
• Depends on your intended audience!
• E.g. document, powerpoint presentation, website, journal article, poster • Font size Font size Font size Font size • Font type times , verdana comic vivaldi • Font style bold italic
Example Document
• Set outline document structure • Set styles and formatting including line spacing, paragraph spacing, indenting, bullet points, numbering etc.
• Set page layout, headings, sections, headers and footers, page numbers, page breaks, table of contents, index etc… • Create content and references, figures etc...
Checklist
• Content – Formatting, Spelling, Grammar – Figures and captions, References • Page structure – Margins, Paper Size, Document Title, Author, Page No’s and Total, Modification Date or Printout Date
Software – the basics
• Word Processing – Microsoft Office - market leader! (OUCS) – Corel (WordPerfect) – alternative (OUCS) – MathType / SciWord - equation editing (OUCS) – LaTeX / Winedt / WinTeX / MikTeX - (downloads) • consider compatibility with your supervisor!
• Bibiliographic software – Endnote / Procite / Reference manager (OUCS) • Powerful in combination with on-line databases • Endnote web free site license
Software – yet more!
• Graphing – Excel – part of Office readily available (OUCS) – Origin, SigmaPlot - zero cost site licensed (Dept website) – Mathematica and Matlab – zero cost site licensed (Dept website) • Images/micrographs – Photoshop / PaintshopPro / Corel – cost money (OUCS) – Gimp / Inkscape – freeware (web download) – Digital micrograph etc – specialist (Dept IT staff or EM staff) • Mathematical packages – Mathematica & Matlab – zero cost site licensed (Dept website) • PDF creation – Acrobat full – costs money (OUCS) – PDF Creator Pro – zero cost site license (OUCS) – Pdf995 or CutePDF – freeware (downloads)
OUCS training courses
• Course details and bookings are via http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses • Word: Creating professional documents – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TRWF • Manging your Thesis – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TRWG • Word: Building long documents – http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TRWK
OUCS course resources
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/asuc/oucs/itlp_courses
Getting IT Support - Local
• Dr Paul J Warren - Senior IT Officer – paul.warren@materials ; 73727; ETB Room 10.12
• Dr Alex Cock – IT support / Teaching Lab / Admin – alex.cock@materials ; 73727 ; ETB Room 10.15
• Khalid Schofield – IT support / Networking – khalid.schofield@materials ; 73728 ; ETB Room 10.28
• Chris Akinola- IT support / General / Audio Visuals – chris.akinola@materials ; 73667 ; ETB Room 10.14