Certificate Course: CCMAT05- Scientific Writing Tools

Course Description

Scientific writing is scientific style of writing used to communicate findings of our research in a clear, concise and organised manner. A number of scientific writing tools are available. Here we try to focus on two document preparation systems ‘LaTeX’ and ‘Overleaf’

LaTeX is a document typesetting system that is used to produce high quality scientific documents, like articles, books, dissertations, technical reports, etc. Using ‘LaTeX’, it is possible to express figures, tables, complex mathematical equations and bibliographies in attractive manner. Overleaf is an online collaborative LaTeX editor in which multiple users can work at the same time.

Learning Outcomes of the Course

• Use the preamble of LaTeX file to define document class and layout options.
• Use different environments like list, enumerate, tabular, array etc within a document.
• Use various methods to either create or import graphics into a LaTeX document.
• Use the beamer package to create presentations.
• Use Theorem, Corollary and other environments.
•    Use BibTeX to maintain bibliographic information and to generate a bibliography for a particular document.