Writing resources

In this repo I am sharing the resources I find useful. My thesis is being written in latex using mainly overleaf (with some local copies when needed) and to ease the mental process of searching the useful tips online to remove the hustle of serching for resources while focusing to the main writing task. This resource list is a living document guiding me through.

Compiled list of resources for writing

0. Ideas

• Using a project tracking tool writing down daily goals and checking them regularly seems like the most common and working strategy.
• Creating a private repo at Github and working there as a project would be my way of completing my thesis.
• My local writing tools are miktex compiler local copy and overleaf, syncing through github.
• Projects section has kanban board and I know it is useful.

1. Resources for writing & motivation

Section by section resources

• a cliché motivation

• Andy Stapleton’s odd guide

• dissertation motivation

• some applicable and inspiring tips from famous fiction writers

• reddit thesis writing

• another reddit

• 8 motivational tips

• another cliché

• writing everything in two months

• thesis writing in 12 months

• writing in three months

• quora thesis writing guide

• some sad truth

• Suggestions about writing tone This one is shared by an email request about inclusive writing.

2. Resources for reference managers (referencing & editing references)

• latex referencing guide, bibtex references

• zotero link to the overleaf

• lib guide & citing bibtex

• zotero

• zotero guide

• jabref

• zotero usage for better bibtex

• visual studio latex zotero citation guide

• stackexchange tips for quick thesis writing

3. Resources for tables, graphs/pictures, illustrations

• figure formatting

• tables figures illustrations tips

• lovely plots

• science plots

• reddit figure discussion

• scientific publcations with seaborn

• Scientific Publication Plots with Pylab

• matplotlib latex

• matplotlib figure making

• color selecting

• basic guide on figures

• matplotlib & latex

• art-visual resolution guide

• jari saramaki figures

4. TOC, appendix, refering to sections, figures, appendix, indexing

• LaTeX guide

• Step by step latex

• getting started with latex

• latex wikibooks

• overlaf TOC

• overleaf general thesis

• toc latex

• Tips on appendix

• minitoc documentation

• TOC editing steps

• Sections in Latex

• Getting to Grips with LaTeX

• custom TOC

• Note: download latex guis/editors first then the compilers to not to deal with path issues, most of the tex editors are automatically detecting the latex in the environment once they are downloaded afterwards of the compuler ie: texmaker & texlive

5. Similar resources

• Thesis writing tips from Computational Linguistics and & Text Mining Lab

• How to write a good PhD thesis and survive the viva, Stefan Ruger

• latex with matplotlib

• thesis guide with latex

• Jari Saramaki paper writing tips

• dickimaw books latex guide

• why latex

• latex thesis guide

• nomenclature package

• manual backing up

• overleaf github

• github overleaf official requires payment or uploading zip files as a workaround

• latex turkish Turkish characters on latex

6. Templates

Some instituons have templates to ease the process of thesis writing. There might be also strict guidelines for accepted referencing formats. I find it useful to have such resources available.

• The template from METU

• FAQ-METU-TR

7. Debugging links

Here I dump the links of the solutions which helped me to solve several bugs happening along the way.

• depthwise and pointwise convolutions in pytorch

• antsRegistrationSyNQuick.sh: command not found

• Node serilaization

• Understanding TRUBA & SLURM guide

• Utah Slurm Presentation do not forget about exporting the TMPDIR here there are some tips

The videos below is to get the anatomical ROIs

• FSL Guide for brain masks

• Combining ROIs

• spherical ROIs

Contributors

Melvin Selim Atay (Mel)

Acknowledgments

There might be some internal conflicts of interest of contradicting motives.

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