wme7 / LaTeX_BuildThesisTemplate

This repo constains contains snippets and figures to exemplify the construction of a thesis document with LaTeX

LaTeX course : Thesis module

Module's sample files and figures:

Goal:

To build a basic thesis template to become familiar with:

• S1 : Learn to write an abstract,
• S1 : Learn the basic structure of a thesis document,
• S1 : Learn to build a fancy header and footer,
• S1 : Learn to build the bibliography using biblatex.

Writing an abstract:

1. The old-school AbstractMaker.pdf,
2. The online Abstract Generator.

Starting hint:

% Set Report class
\documentclass{report} % double-sided pages
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{ {figures/} } % Add path the figures

% Title page info
\title{
    {My Cool Research Project Name}\\
    {\large Institution Name}\\
    \vspace{1cm}
    {\includegraphics{TeXlion}}
}
\author{Manuel A. D\'iaz}
\date{\today}

% Begin thesis document
\begin{document}

    % Title page
    \maketitle

    % The abstract
    \chapter*{Abstract}
    Briefly: what have you done? and why it matters?

    % A dedication
    \chapter*{Dedication}
    To my mom, dad, dog, ...

    % Statement
    \chapter*{Declaration}
    I declare this is an original work ...

    % Acknowledgments
    \chapter*{Acknowledgements}
    I wish to thank ...

    % The Table of contents
    \tableofcontents

    % Introduction
    \chapter{Introduction}
    Let me tell you a story ...

    % Chapter 2: Methodology part I
    \chapter{Title of Chapter 2}
    Some method we used for ...

    % Chapter 3: Methodology part II
    \chapter{Title of Chapter 3}
    Another method we also used for ...

    % Chapter 4: Experiments and results
    \chapter{Experiments and Results}
    To verify our idea, we did ...

    % Chapter 5: Conclusions and Future work
    \chapter{Conclusion}
    We conclude that ...

    % Appendix
    \appendix
    \chapter{Title of Appendix Chapter}
    Here are some important details ...

% End thesis document
\end{document}

Complementary material in figures/ :

References

1. The Thesis tutorial by overleaf.com,
2. Dr. Trefor Bazett, youtube video: My favorite LaTeX packages for writing beautiful math documents,
3. The Markdown cheat sheet.