Brief Summary
This course teaches you how to use LaTeX for creating stylish and professional-looking publications. You'll learn to automate tasks, manage references, and format documents for various needs, whether it's a paper or a resume. It's super accessible and user-friendly!
Key Points
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Learn the basics of LaTeX for creating professional publications.
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Automate tedious writing processes.
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Format documents for academic journals easily.
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Apply LaTeX to various types of documents like books and resumes.
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Access free tools and templates for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
Learning Outcomes
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Create professional-quality documents using LaTeX.
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Import and layout graphics in your publications.
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Manage citations easily with bibliographies.
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Format documents for specific academic styles effortlessly.
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Use LaTeX for a variety of writing projects like reports and letters.
About This Course
Learn the basics of generating quality publications that effectively showcase your talent and skills.
This course is open to anyone who wants to learn how to create a professional quality, typeset publication. In addition to improving the aesthetic quality of your work, LaTeX users benefit from automating many of the tedious processes involved in writing a professional publication.
LaTeX allows you to manage references, figures, tables, footnotes, formatting, mathematical equations, algorithms, scientific proofs, and more in a programmatic fashion that provides benefits far exceeding that of word processing software.
Need to format a paper for a specific venue? Many academic journals and conferences provide LaTeX Style files (.sty) for correctly typesetting your submission. With one line of code, you can modify your publication to match the style of many leading academic publishing outlets.
Not writing a paper? LaTeX can also be used for books, reports, technical and business documents, screenplays, resumes, letters ... anything you want to write!
The course uses tools that are freely available online for Mac (Linux) and Windows users. Templates are included for download to get you started.
Learn the basics of creating a document in LaTex
Be able to import and layout graphics
Manage citations and references with biobliographies and bibligraphy styles
Sven S.
still able to perfectly follow the course at 1.75x speed! ;-)