I’m writing the master thesis, and I’d like to know if the following text would be appropriate or not. Consider the middle paragraph is copy-pasted from the source      In this section, I will briefly overview the Lipsum dummy texts and full details can   be found in the source [1].      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting   industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever   since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and   scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only   five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting,   remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with   the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and   more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker   including versions of Lorem Ipsum.      Bibliography: [1] Source, formatted in APA, IEEE, …
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I am writing a project report for my master degree in STEM (U.S.). I have to cite a large paragraph of others' work. This paragraph describes some basic stuff (For example, a duck has two eyes and two legs). I did not change a word in that paragraph.  I have already cited this paper at the end of my report. Is there anything else I can do to avoid plagiarism?
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I was reviewing an English text as an exercise, English not being my mother tongue, and I came to this sentence:     (...) with the two other articles that conclude several things about customers e.g.. It is (...)   Note the double periods at the end of the sentence. Now I've got a gut feeling that this isn't right, but I can't find any rules about it. Is it even 'allowed' to put 'e.g.' at the end of a sentence, where something like 'etc.' would suffice?
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I am writing my thesis currently and I want to include papers that I am included on as an author.  I will have a couple papers where I am 1st author, but there is one where I am third but did a lot of the work.  How do I go about integrating it into my thesis?  Can I copy/paste most of the text still or do I need to rewrite it?  I don't want to plagiarize but don't want to rewrite it if I don't have to.
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On  we expect answers to include a full list of references on which the answer was based at the bottom of the question. There are a few ways in which to format this list and we haven't decided on a preferred format yet.  One of the ideas is to wrap the list of references in &lt;sub&gt; tags as it .  This looks as follows:   Neher, A. (1991). Maslow's theory of motivation: A critique. Journal of Humanistic Psycholgoy, 31, 3.  Mahmoud A. Wahba, Lawrence G. Bridwell,  (1976),   In order to place the second reference on a new line, two spaces need to be added at the end of the first reference. Using (the more logical) return breaks markdown! Adding a first return only adds a space. Everything after a second return isn't subscript anymore.   Neher, A. (1991). Maslow's theory of motivation: A critique. Journal of Humanistic Psycholgoy, 31, 3.   Mahmoud A. Wahba, Lawrence G. Bridwell,  (1976),   Is this a bug?
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I'm at the stage in writing my dissertation where most of the substantive aspects are finished and the only tasks left are more or less administrative. However, one thing that I've been avoiding is writing the "Acknowledgements" section. Obviously I will thank my supervisor, committee members, other faculty and staff that have played a meaningful role in my education, other students who have been friends and co-workers, my close friends, and my family (in that order!), but I'm struggling with how to approach it. Does anyone have advice or hot tips about what to do or not do that they'd be willing to share? Is it possible to make it meaningful without sounding contrived or pedantic or disingenuous? Do I go with the standard disclaimer about how any errors that remain after getting all that wonderful help and support are mine alone...? Thanks!
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I'm writing a thesis which is an aggregate of separate articles. I have the source code for the articles and I'm using \include to include them in the main document of the thesis. So in my main.tex (thesis document), I have  \include{article1} some pages in between the two articles \include{article2}   The problem that I'm getting is with the Appendix sections. In article 1, I have at the end:  \appendix \numberwithin{equation}{section} \section{Coefficients}\label{sec:Coeffic} \subsection{Good coefficients} then comes the first line of appendix   This gives in article 1 (when  compiled separately with the article class):     A. Coefficients      A.1. Good coefficients   and equation numbers in the Appendix A as (A.1), (A.2)  which is ok and what is expected.  When I put article 1 within main.tex, I use \include command. Also, I removed the document class for article 1 and put \chapter instead.  But when I compile main.tex (the thesis document), I get the appendix sections as:     .1 Coefficients      .1.1 Good coefficients   and the equation numbers in the appendix A as (.1.1), (.1.2) etc  My article 1 is treated as a chapter in the main thesis document (main.tex) and the title and section numbers, equation numbers are preceded by A in main.tex. This is what I want.  Maybe it would be ok to get the appendix in my main.tex as     A.A. Coefficients      A.A.1 Good coefficients   and the equation numbers in the Appendix as (A.A.1), (A.A.2) etc  to denote that it refers to appendix A of paper A. First A is for the first article and second A is for first appendix. How to get this?
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I'd like to know how this text gets adapted onto these 3D models. Could it be a PNG  which gets mapped. Or is this text pre planned how it would be layout onto the model? what's the method involved in this technique? Would the text layout need to be the same ratio done with a graphic editor like Photoshop or Illustrator? and have the mesh modelled in the same metric unit so the text can later fall correctly in place? All information is appreciated, unfortunately my college instructors are really lame in giving information....  Thank you.
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I came across these two examples, given to illustrate 'a case' where the inclusion of the preposition for is considered optional in the paper "" by the authors Jae-Min Kim and Gil-Soon Ahn (in §2, on p.3):     a. We have lived here (for) 12 years.      b. I've studied English (for) ten years.   Though I have no problems with either version of the (a) sentence, omitting the preposition in (b) sounds unacceptable to me.  Is this regional?   Is acceptability influenced by   the size of the DO (/locative / PP / ...) between the verb and the time phrase the actual verb used   ?  Please note: The referenced paper  is very useful, but contains a few expressions that need minor corrections – possibly translation errors.
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Hi I want to format my chapter of my thesis as shown in the figure. How can I do it? Can you suggest me some fancy latex templates for a phd thesis?
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I just found  to a question on SO. While it provides a source for the (very long) quote, I do not like the fact that the answerer just posted the quote, without adding anything. Maybe add highlights/emphasis or remove uninteresting passages. Or skip the quote altogether and write a short summary. I feel, in the current form, this should have been a comment that just links to the original article.  Am I too pedantic? Should I flag this as not an answer? Should I downvote it? What do you think about such answers?
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I have a grant proposal that I'm ready to submit, and I would like to re-use a significant amount of the text (on the order of 5-8 pages) in a paper that I intend to submit to a journal for publication.  Is this considered self-plagiarism?  As I suggested in the title, I am also interested in the reverse direction of this.  Is it okay to take significant amounts of text from (e.g.) my own unpublished doctoral dissertation and use it in a grant proposal?  If this were an issue of paper-to-paper copying I know both of these would be clearly off-limits.  The key issue that I am wrestling with is whether the rules are different for unpublished works like dissertations and grant proposals.
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I am looking to create some handwriting drill sheets.  Similar to what can be found here    I also found this question:  But I'd like to be able to simply write a paragraph of text with a known font and have the lines placed behind, perhaps like a watermark.  I have found a git repo with some nice lines in both portrait and landscape here   From the kindergarten example, I would like to overlay "phantom" text (probably a dotted cursive font) over the lines that are generated.  Any thoughts?  \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}  \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,lmargin=1cm,rmargin=1cm} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage{dashrule} \usepackage{forloop} \makeatother  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}  \begin{document}  \newcounter{ct} \forloop{ct}{1}{\value{ct} &lt; 13} { \vskip 10pt \rule[1.75ex]{7.5in}{1pt} \\ \hdashrule{7.75in}{1pt}{4mm} \\ \rule[-1.75ex]{7.5in}{1pt} \\ }  \vskip 1cm  \end{document}   *Edit: I also just found this source:    So some combination of these makes sense to me, I'm just not clear on how...  *Edit: Okay, So I've gotten pretty far here.  But it seems like several parameters need to be functions of each other some how.  The line spacing, the font size, etc.  Here is where I am:  \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,english]{article}  \usepackage{babel}  \usepackage{blindtext}   \usepackage{setspace}  \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,lmargin=1cm,rmargin=1cm} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage{dashrule} \usepackage{forloop} \makeatother  \usepackage{xcolor}  \newcommand{\baselinegrid}{%   \raisebox{0pt}[\height][0pt]{\makebox[0pt][l]{%   \begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}%     \begin{color}{red}%     \newcounter{ct}     \forloop{ct}{1}{\value{ct} &lt; 11}     {     %\vskip 15pt     \rule[0.5ex]{7.5in}{1pt}     \\     \hdashrule[0.75ex]{7.75in}{1pt}{4mm}     \\     \rule[1.2ex]{7.5in}{1pt}     \\     }     \end{color}   \end{minipage}% }}}  \begin{document}    \baselinegrid%  \begin{spacing}{2.5}    \usefont{T1}{wela}{m}{n}   \fontsize{30}{15}\selectfont   \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}   \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}    DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.  \end{spacing}  \end{document}
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I am writing a scientific article. In the "materials and methods" section I must specify the hardware I used, namely an HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (I also specified the details of its features).  Now my doubt:  Should I use bibliographic citations (such as when mentioning a software, book, or scientific article) when I mention the hardware?  What is standard (if any) for such cases?  Thanks in advance for any help and/or suggestion.  P.S. I use APA standards for bibliographic references, although the question is independent of that subject.
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Is it plagiarism if I copy several paragraphs from another's source (let's say a CS paper) into my work and then footnote Source: ..., for example, as background information?
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Question:  Are there any guidelines, sources, or examples of good practices for maintaining theorist's research notebook?  Motivation and context:  Maintaining a  is a much advised (if not a vital) tool for doing research. Many do that nowadays also in . While the methods for writing and maintaining a labbook might differ in details, in "dirty-hands" (no offense!) experimental, or field disciplines, the basics are relatively straightforward and clear. The advice tends to boil down to keep a labbook per single topic one works on and then record all the experiments and thoughts related to those experiments into the notebook. Simplifying a lot, in the end, the researcher (team) would compile a paper from the notes in the notebook.  Now situation of a researcher in a more theoretical discipline is strikingly different. Usually one engages in research on several topics at the same time. The problems a researcher works on are often intertwined and one's view on them changes over time, often merging originally separate streams of thought into a single one, or vice-versa. The work revolves not around experiments which would have a clear objective, but rather around currently prepared papers and then "a cloud of ideas". In summary, theorist's workstyle tends to be very non-linear. Maintaining some kind of a notebook is still a good thing, if for nothing else, then for not forgetting about stuff. My question is about how to go about doing it.  I am after a practical tool helping me to archive my thought process for long-term, as well as efficiently manage and keep an overview of the evolution of the several interacting topics I engage in.
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I am in the early stages of my PhD and I am trying to put together a literature review of my topic. My intention is that this review will eventually be included in my thesis, something like "the chapter that describes the state of the art in the domain."  My subject is soft matter physics and a large number of theses have already been written this topic. When looking at the literature reviews included in these other works I've noticed that:    The sequence of ideas is often the same (this makes sense, so why not?) Cited papers are always the same, even though 20 years elapsed between the first and last thesis. Moreover, papers from the 30's are cited but no one in my lab seems to have a copy available?    My hypothesis is that these theses are derived from some sort of a Mother of All Thesis, and that paraphrasing the work of the previous student is OK.   So, what makes a good literature review?  How do you notice that a literature review is sloppy?   PS: I posted this question because I assume many of you have experience with this process either in your own PhD work, or as a supervisor where you have had to deal with paraphrasing of your students.   PS2: I am not asking about making proper citations, LaTeX+BibTeX handles that like a charm.
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I have a written thesis, as my Final year project. I have submitted in university.   but now i want to make it professionally mine.   I want to publish it some where but i don't have such kind of experience before. I am total Rookie in this field.  Any Expert Opinion?  Note: Thesis in About "Handwriting Recognition "