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Add On Course

Scientific Document Writing Using LATEX: A Hands-On Towards Its Methodologies

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Title

SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENT WRITING USING LATEX: A HANDS-ON TOWARDS ITS METHODOLOGIES

Since 2022-2023, Garhbeta College is offering this specialized training program which is certified the College itself.


Course Duration

32 Hours


Objective

LaTeX is widely used for scientific publications and a variety of other forms of publishing. It not only produces attractively typeset documents, but it also enables users to swiftly tackle the more technical aspects of typesetting, such as entering mathematical equations, constructing tables of contents, referencing and constructing bibliographies, and maintaining a consistent layout across all sections. The prospects with LaTeX are limitless due to the vast number of open-source packages offered.

So, our main objectives in running this course are

  • • To introduce the students with a document preparation system that allows them to create professional-looking documents without using a word processor.

  • • To help the students to excel at typesetting equations while writing long, structured documents. It is freely accessible for most of the operating systems.

  • • To make the students know importance of this software for publishing research articles, papers, project reports and books and thereby help them to be comfortable with the software.

  • • To make the students learn how to utilize LaTeX to isolate a document's content from its aesthetic, i. e., once they type the content of a document, they can easily change its design.


Curriculum for this Add-on Course

➤ Module 1 (5 hours):


  • ✔ Installation of the software LaTeX - 1 hour
  • ✔ Document class & Environments - 1 hour
  • ✔ Packages - 1 hour 30 minutes
  • ✔ Preparation of a title page and abstract - 1 hour
  • ✔ Sectioning - 30 minutes

➤ Module 2 (3 hours):


  • ✔ Preparation of table of contents, ordinary paragraphs & bibliography - 2 hour
  • ✔ Label, Cross-referencing & Hyperlink - 1 hour

➤ First Tutorial - 1 hour

➤ Module 3 (7 hours):


  • ✔ Fonts & spacing - 1 hour
  • ✔ Coloring - 30 minutes
  • ✔ Special characters including various & foreign letters - 1 hour
  • ✔ How to type various mathematical symbols - 1 hour 30 minutes
  • ✔ How to type mathematical equations & multiline formulae - 2 hour

➤ Second Tutorial - 1 hour

➤ Module 4 (5 hours):


  • ✔ Customization of header, footer, margin & dimension of a page - 1 hour
  • ✔ How to create multi-column pages, footnotes & margins - 1 hour 30 minutes
  • ✔ Graphics, Figures & Captions - 2 hours 30 minutes

➤ Third Tutorial - 1 hour

➤ Module 5 (3 hours):


  • ✔ Errors & Warnings - 1 hour
  • ✔ When, why, what & how to index: Use of MakeIndex - 1 hour
  • ✔ Theorem Styles & related topics - 1 hour

➤ Module 6 (4 hours):


  • ✔ Introduction to beamer presentation: How to prepare title page & author information - 1 hour
  • ✔ Themes of beamer presentation - 2 hour
  • ✔ Construction of frames of a beamer presentation - 1 hour 30 minutes
  • ✔ Referencing in beamer presentation - 30 minutes

➤ Final Tutorial - 1 hour


Assessment / Examination

1. Step 1 – Submission of written scientific document using LATEX

2. Step 2 – Beamer presentation

3. Step 3 – Viva-voce conducted by the college


Certification

After passing all the examinations listed above a student will be given a certificate from Garhbeta College.



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