How to write a STEM paper

[@DrTrefor]

I always recommend writing papers using LaTeX, so my particular thanks to Overleaf (a great LaTeX editor) for sponsoring today's video. Get the Overleaf DISCOUNT CODE ► www.overleaf.com/events/exclusive-offer-to-trefor-bazetts-followers? to get 10% off an annual Student or Standard plan until May 31st.

[@fikilemkhize5776]

Could you make a video on writing the Article in Latex? Please. I wrote my master's thesis using a template. I have compressed my thesis into about 18 pages for the article, but I do not know how to write it in the different formats and fonts that different types of journals use

[@dakotagutierrez9135]

I cannot fully put into words how great of a resource you have been to me throughout my stem schooling so far. Thank you so so much Dr. Trefor

[@DrTrefor]

So glad to hear!

[@magalyjuarez9203]

Overleaf is all I use as an undergrad… math major! U have no idea how much I appreciate your videos

[@DrTrefor]

Thanks for sharing!

[@RandyKing314]

thanks for the simple tips! also thanks to you, I am learning LaTex by using Overleaf, and I love it. after earning a B.S. in math 25 years ago, I am finally writing a paper. Although not on the level of a professional mathematician, it’s still an enjoyable intellectual exercise.

[@DrTrefor]

That’s awesome!

[@DanielaLopez-hg8vc]

Amazing! Today at school we're going to have a little talk precisely about this on our women in math club. 😮 Thanks! It helps me a lot. ❤

[@DrTrefor]

Oh fun, hope it helps:)

[@memyselfishness]

This came out a week after my Math paper was due -___-

[@DrTrefor]

haha worst timing ever:D

[@bertlemoi431]

hey, for your next one, you will be better for it ;)

[@nosferatu5500]

Best video for this topic so far

[@DrTrefor]

Thank you!

[@yoman6367]

Sir,you make even writing a paper more interesting,I have no reason to watch this video 😂but I just watched for the knowledge,and the way you explain is just amazing,I have no reason to watch all the maths on this channel too,cuz Im a CS student but you make math unteresting,very hard to do for any teacher.

[@galus_anonimus]

Hi! Could you please provide a reference to specific papers you find well written or even better to some kind of base with high quality papers? Thank you from advance.

[@madhavsirohi2225]

Haha the timing, I just reached the end of the LaTeX tutorial series! :)

[@affrontit]

Just about to start writing up my research project so thank you for blessing us with this 🙏😂

[@DrTrefor]

Good luck!!

[@coffeeconfessor4747]

What do you think about endnotes/footnotes? (Your LaTeX tutorials are a LIFESAVER btw.. I don't use it that often, and I don't know the codes by heart, I tend to use Word, and I know all the math codes there by heart, so I don't have to go clicking lol) Mostly my version of paper writing consists of vomiting all my information down, printing it out, then physically highlighting specific things that go together with the same colors... it makes it so much easier to see what should be where. I'm super bad at intro/conclusion sentences though, and I tend to save those for the last thing..lol

[@DrTrefor]

I'm definitely a fan of them. I'm always wanting to add little asides and details etc that are much better for footnotes than the other way around.

[@coffeeconfessor4747]

@@DrTrefor I usually use them if I have a minor calculation, or I've seen some weird thing that may lead to a contradiction in a study. However, my code, I use my comments to vent my anger at something not working along with what things are supposed to do.. usually it's something like, "This bit is supposed to do this, but it decided to be a jerk and so it got modified and beat into submission..

[@salganik]

not sure about math, but in physics the structure is a bit different: - introduction - methods - results - discussion This allows to divide methodology of your experiments or numerical/analytical model from the results of using these methods, while results don't include any interpretation.

[@wjrasmussen666]

Love it!

[@sdl9258]

If possible, please make video on reference manager.

[@FelipeBalbi]

Dr Bazett, \documentclass{article} or \documentclass{scrartcl}?

[@DrTrefor]

I typically do article but your mileage may vary

[@vivekm.s8819]

Proffesor i failed in math exam in my academics but i dont know why i failed but i need to do further research in mathematics. Can these failures decides that i am not eligible to do math.?

[@DrTrefor]

Not at all imo!

[@StephenBoothUK]

Some people just don’t get on with how maths (I’m British, we say maths) is taught in school. Some people have terrible maths teachers. Find resources that help you build understanding and work through them. I’ve just started reading “Visible Maths” by Peter Mattock which is a book aimed at teachers that looks at how to teach maths, at primary and secondary level (so from basic numeracy up to preparation for university undergraduate courses), in a way that will help students to grasp the material. Something to consider is that a key difference between STEM and most other subject areas is that in STEM there is more of a structure of each topic building on the topics before, what you’re learning this month requires you to have a decent understanding of what you learned last month, and if you don’t understand basic numerical operations and at least some geometry you’re going to have problems with algebra and trigonometry. Most non-STEM subjects it may help to understand what was taught before but it’s not needed, in geography knowing about the exports of South Africa isn’t going to help with understanding terminal moraines in post-glacial Northern Europe and whilst knowing about the Tudor period of English history may give you some context for the English Civil War it is by no means needed to understand what happened. Talking to adults who struggle with maths a common thing I’ve heard is that up to a point things made sense, then nothing made sense. Often the “It stopped making sense” moment coincided with a life change, changing school or having to miss a period of school being common ones. I feel that this lends weight to the idea of one topic building on the ones that went before it. They understood maths then something happened and they didn’t, maybe they missed some key topic and the stable wall of maths topics they had been building lost some stability. I’m trying to fill in the gaps in my own maths knowledge and, following the principle that the best way to learn something well is to try to teach it to someone else, have started to try to assemble a textbook both as an aide memoir of my own learning and maybe something that might help someone else. It’s very much in it’s early stages (I’m currently on different types of numbers).

[@wafikiri_]

References point at material the authors have read. Whatever they haven't should be pointed at in another section, Bibliography, a much forgotten one nowadays.

[@othmanaljbory3649]

Good luck

[@othmanaljbory3649]

❤❤❤

[@dreamtheater_92]

Anyone here use LaTeX in business? I'm a software engineer and love it, but everyone else uses Word. It's very hard to reproduce Word's "collaboration" features, such as commenting and revisions in the output PDFs.

[@CrazyMineCuber]

Please please stop putting code in the appendix!!!!! Code does not belong in a formatted documented to be copy pasted just ta have ticks be replaced with backticks, breaking the code! Code belongs in a git repository! Just link it!

[@DrTrefor]

I do agree with that for sure, although I also think sometimes it is nice to have key sections (like the meat of the algorithm) in a highly annotated version in the appendix, but this probably varies a bunch discipline to discipline.

[@vivekm.s8819]

First comment proffesor.❤

[@DrTrefor]

congrats!

[@jonsentio3150]

thanks pewdiepie

[@aaarc_]

PewDiePie?

[@DrTrefor]

Maybe

[@Fanaro]

The padding, and spacing on these bullet lists are so visually annoying...

[@marinchan6334]

Thank you Sir a lot.Its really helpful as a guide for someone like me who is going to start my phd this year.

[@DrTrefor]

Good luck!

[@muhammadizhar4817]

Which book do you recommend for LATEX? I follow Latex Beginner's Guide by Stefan Kottwitz

[@DrTrefor]

To be honest, I've never read a LaTeX book. Everything I know I've just read online and figured out as I need to practice. I ended up making a video series introducing LaTeX in part because I learn better this way myself