Writing Skills –Part 2 Technical Issues. Content vs Presentation Content is always more important than presentation! Bad presentation can often detract.

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Writing Skills –Part 2 Technical Issues

Content vs Presentation Content is always more important than presentation! Bad presentation can often detract / distract Good presentation can enhance impact and intelligibility

Formatting Page layout, headings, sections, headers and footers, page numbers, page breaks, table of contents, index etc… Font size Font type times, verdana comic vivaldi Font style bold italic Line spacing, paragraph spacing, indenting, bullet points, numbering etc.

Example Document Set outline document structure Set styles and formatting Set page layout Create content, references, figures

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

Contact IT staff Paul J Warren - Senior IT officer –Tel: –General overview Alex Cock – IT officer –Tel: –TeachingLab and Library computers Khalid Schofield – IT technician –Tel: –General problem solving (hard and soft)

Questions? Any pet hates? Any common problems? Microsoft Office Help does work! Google will find free tutorials!

Software Word Processing –Microsoft Office - market leader! (OUCS) –Corel (WordPerfect) – alternative (OUCS) –MathType / SciWord - equation editing (OUCS) –LaTeX / Winedt / WinTeX - (web download) consider compatability with your supervisor! Bibiliographic software –Endnote / Procite / Reference manager (OUCS) Powerful in combination with on-line databases Endnote web free site license

Software2 Graphing –Excel – part of Office readily available (OUCS) –Origin, SigmaPlot - low cost site licensed (Dept website) –Mathematica and Matlab – low cost site licensed (Dept website) Images/micrographs –Photoshop / PaintshopPro / Corel – cost money (OUCS) –Gimp – freeware (web download) –Digital micrograph etc – specialist (Dept IT staff) Mathematical packages –Mathematica & Matlab – low cost site licensed (Dept website) PDF creation –Acrobat full – costs money (OUCS) –Pdf995 or CutePDF – freeware (web download

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