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6 CONTENTS4.12.4 Dash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804.12.5 Semicolon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804.12.6 Quotation marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.12.7 Parantheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.13 Genitive: ’s or of? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.13.1 Special cases where ’s genitive is used for unanimatethings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.13.2 When of structure is necessary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.13.3 Possessive form of pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.14 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 Writing master’s thesis 855.1 Parts of the master’s thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.1.1 Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.1.2 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855.1.3 Main chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865.1.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865.1.5 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865.1.6 Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875.1.7 Examples of master’s theses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875.2 Master’s thesis process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895.2.1 Reading literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895.2.2 Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895.2.3 Difficulty to get started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905.2.4 Revising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915.2.5 Technical notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 L A TEXinstructions and exercises 936.1 Why latex? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936.2 Latex commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946.3 Basic latex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956.3.1 Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 956.3.2 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966.4 Writing equations and special symbols by Latex . . . . . . . . 976.5 Writing references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996.6 Including figures into a latex document . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006.7 Drawing figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016.7.1 Advices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016.7.2 Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026.8 Spell checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026.9 Writing references by bibtex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
CONTENTS 76.9.1 Idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1046.9.2 Bibtex entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056.9.3 Searching bibtex entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1056.9.4 Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076.10 Writing algorithms in latex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076.10.1 Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1076.10.2 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1096.11 Special latex notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106.11.1 No numbers to sections or sections . . . . . . . . . . . 1106.11.2 Other symbols or item names to lists . . . . . . . . . . 1106.11.3 Footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116.11.4 Font size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116.11.5 Multi-column tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116.11.6 Sideway tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136.11.7 Special letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136.11.8 Removing extra spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146.11.9 Adding extra spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147 Appendices 115Appendix A: A simple latex template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Appendix B: A latex template for articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Appendix C: A check list for the master’s thesis . . . . . . . . . . . 123References 123
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