REPORT WRITING Research preparation in Post graduation studies 1.1 Instructions Students will provide an individual & original historical and literature review at a high level on one of several potential themes: • Quantum Comupting • Robots in Space • Bush_re prevention • Earthquake proof engineering • visualization in hollywood movies • or a self chosen topic The report will showcase skills covered in class and will be 6-8 pages (not counting bibliography). To construct your literature review you can use guidelines from the lecture notes and power-point slides to End papers and journals relevant to your chosen topic. Lists of web resources are included in the lecture notes. You can also use the book website at: 1.2 Step-by-Step To run the LaTeX template: • Create a folder • Make sure all _les have exactly the same name as shown • install LaTeX using links given in tutorial notes • open Literature Review.tex in LaTeX • put your references into a BibTeX .bib _le • Add the _lename of your .bib _le to your Literature Review.tex template on bibliography{opticsbooks,opticsjournal} • Write your literature review in the .tex _le, remember to use cite{} or citep{} for your references and quotation marks when you use direct quotes • when compiling, run pdfLaTex, then BibTeX, then pdfLaTex again to produce the _nished pdf 1.3 Report Format and guidelines For your Literature Review, Written report 1, you will use the `Literature Review.tex' template found on the site together with a .bib _le you have constructed. The Literature Review report will be original and individual work and will have a minimum length of 6-8 pages using the A4 paper 12pt font article format found in the template. The `Literature' section of the text will be at least 5 pages with approximately 1 pages of Background and a short summary section as shown in the template _le. You may include a maximum of 2 _gures to illustrate points in your literature review. You must include a minimum of 10 references in the text (and the bibliography). This report must be original and individual work, make sure to check your similarity online, and make sure your citations are done correctly with parenthesis and cite commands. Anyone with plagiarism will get an automatic zero on their report. 2 LATEXtutorial 1 2.1 Simple Text Words are separated by one or more spaces. Paragraphs are separated by one or more blank lines. The output is not affected by adding extra spaces or extra blank lines to the input _le. Double quotes are typed like this: quoted text". Single quotes are typed like this: `single-quoted text'. Long dashes are typed as three dash characters| like this. Emphasized text is typed like this: this is emphasized. Bold text is typed like this: this is bold. 2.1.1 A Warning or Two If you get too much space after a mid-sentence period|abbreviations like etc. are the common culprits)| then type a backslash followed by a space after the period, as in this sentence. Remember, don't type the 10 special characters (such as dollar sign and backslash) except as directed! The following seven are printed by typing a backslash in front of them: $ & # % f and g. Online LaTeX manuals detail how to make other symbols. 2.2 Compiling You will need to typeset your document four times, _rst LaTeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, and then LaTeX again. Your bibliography will now appear in the style of your choice and your citations will be correctly formatted. If question marks appear where citations should, that means you need to LaTeX your document once more. If the citations are entirely missing, you have likely forgotten to BibTeX your document.

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