Academic Writing

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Table of Contents

The contents of the lecture is as follows

1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 A Historical Overview
1.2.1 Inception
1.2.2 Adding Macros: LaTeX
1.2.3 Reworking Fonts and the LaTeX Project
1.3 Current State
1.3.1 Files During Compilation
1.3.2 A Hello, World!
1.4 Installation
1.4.1 Windows
1.4.2 Creating a Document
2 Looking at the Basics
2.1 The Process of LaTeX
2.1.1 A Small Example
2.1.2 What is the Point of LaTeX
2.2 Basics of Typesetting
2.2.1 The Use of Spaces
2.2.2 Quotations
2.2.3 Dashes
2.2.4 Accents
2.2.5 Special Symbols
2.2.6 Position of Text
2.3 Fonts
2.3.1 Type Style
2.4 Type Size
3 The Document
3.1 The Document Class
3.1.1 Font Size
3.1.2 Paper Size
3.1.3 Page Formats
3.2 Page Style
3.2.1 Heading Declarations
3.3 Page Numbering
3.4 Formatting Lengths
3.5 Parts of a Document
3.5.1 The Title
3.5.2 Abstract
3.5.3 Dividing the Document
3.5.4 Example
3.5.5 Additional Information
4 Displaying Content
4.1 Borrowing Text
4.2 Making Lists
4.2.1 Using Bullet Lists
4.2.2 Ordered Lists
4.2.3 Description Lists
5 Typesetting Mathematics
5.1 True Purpose of TeX
5.2 Fundamentals
5.2.1 Superscripts and Subscripts
5.2.2 Roots
5.2.3 Symbols in Mathematics
5.3 Custom Commands
5.4 Additional Math
5.4.1 Single Equations
5.4.2 Groups of Equations
5.4.3 Numbered Equations
5.5 Additional Commands
5.5.1 Matrices
5.5.2 Dots
5.5.3 Delimiters
5.5.4 Putting One Over Another
5.5.5 Putting Symbols Over or Under
5.6 New Operators
5.7 Fonts for Mathematics
6 Float Environments
6.1 The figure Environment
6.1.1 Creating floating figures
6.1.2 Figure Placement
6.1.3 Customising the float placement
6.1.4 Using Graphics in LaTeX
6.2 The Table Environment
6.2.1 tabularray Package
7 Glossaries
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Using Glossaries
7.2.1 Defining a Glossary Entry
7.2.2 Using in the Text
7.2.3 Displaying the Glossary
8 Cross-Referencing
8.1 The Purpose of Cross-Referencing
8.2 Making LaTeX do the Work
8.2.1 Referencing Items
8.2.2 Cross-Referencing in Math
8.3 Pointing to a Page using the varioref Package
8.4 The cleveref Package
9 Supplemental Information
9.1 Tables
Bibliography

Copyright Information


(2025, D. T. McGuines, Ph.D)

This document includes the contents of Academic Writing, official name being Presenting and Moderating in English, taught at MCI in the Mechatronik. This document is the part of the module MECH-B-2-SWE-ENG-ILV taught in the B.Sc degree.

All relevant code of the document is done using SageMath where stated and Python v3.13.5.
This document was compiled with LuaTeX  v1.22.0, and all editing were done using GNU Emacs v30.1 using AUCTeX  and org-mode package.

This document is based on the following books and resources shown in no particular order:

LaTeX Tutorials: A primer by Indian TeX Users Group , Indian TEX Users Group The LaTeX Companion Part I by Frank Mittelbach , Addison-Wesley The LaTeX Companion Part II by Frank Mittelbach , Addison-Wesley LaTeX: A Document Preparation System by Leslie Lamport , Addison-Wesley The TeXBook by Donald Knuth , Addison-Wesley Guide to LaTeX by Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly , Addison-Wesley LaTeX Wikibook by Wikibook , Wikibooks

The document is designed with no intention of publication and has only been designed for education purposes.

The current maintainer of this work along with the primary lecturer
is D. T. McGuines, Ph.D.   (dtm@mci4me.at).