Book Instructions

Due Dates

First fixed draft: May 7th (to student editing your work and cc'ed to us - Please post online!)
Final Version: May 13th

Creating a new tex file

Each student should create a tex file for each of their assignments using these guidelines and then must work on editing their assignments with another student as mentioned below before submitting it.

Remove begin{document} and end{document}

Remove all includes

Images directories should be listed in the following format:

For scribe notes: scribe/lecture# (Ex: scribe/lecture1)
For hw1-3: hw#/Name# (Ex: hw3/Smith3)

Bibliography files should be made corresponding to each:

lecture#.bib, hw1.bib, hw2.bib, hw3.bib
Make formatting of all citations consistent.
Each paper referenced in the bibliography file's entry should be called by <LastName><Year> Where last name will be the first last name in alphabetical order (lowercase) and Year is the year published. Notes should reflect these changes. Ex: smith2002. If two or papers exist in the same year use <LastName><Year><.#>. Ex: smith2002.1 and smith2002.2
Software should just be the name of the software. ex: clairlib

Remove \printbibliography

If you defined any new environments, place them in a separate file, environments.txt. Some environments that will be in the book: definition, theorem

IMPORTANT all images should include proper credit (e.g., the paper from which they were taken)

Make sure that the images are readable when printed. If needed, find the original source of the image and copy from there.

Don't used bulleted lists when a narrative paragraph would be appropriate.

All files necessary for compilation are required in the submission.

See Scribing Changes and Homework Changes for changes specific to each type of document.

Scribing Changes

Each chapter heading should be as follows:
\chapter{}
\vspace{-1cm}
\subsection*{Lecturer: \\Scribe: or Author:}

ex: First \section should become \chapter:

\chapter{Real Networks}
\vspace{-1cm}
\subsection*{Lecturer: Dragomir Radev\\Scribe: Sara Stolbach}
Move each section up one level (All \subsection should become \section, and \subsubsection should become \subsection etc...)
Sample: lecture1.tex

Homework Changes

Each chapter heading should be as follows:
\chapter{}
\vspace{-1cm}
\subsection*{Lecturer: \\Scribe: or Author:}
ex: The title should become the \chapter:

\chapter{My Hw1}
\vspace{-1cm}
\subsection*{Author: John Smith}
Images (and tables). Either center your images, or place them side-by-side. Use the more appropriate one per image.
- Center your image via the \centering command:
  \begin{figure} \centering
  \includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{1.jpg}
  \caption{\label{fig:1} fig 1}
  \end{figure}
- Place two images side-by-side:
  PREFERRED WAY:
  
  \begin{figure} \centering
  \subfigure[description for figure 1]{\label{fig-1}\includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig1.jpg}}
  \subfigure[description for figure 2]{\label{fig-2}\includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig2.jpg}}
  \subfigure[description for figure 3]{\label{fig-3}\includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig3.jpg}}
  \label{fig}
  \caption{Description for all the figures}
  \end{figure}
  
  Make the general label name be the first part of the individual figures name. Each figure will be referenced in the text with (a), (b), or (c) depending on the image it is.
  
  OLD WAY:
  
  \begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{1.jpg}
  \includegraphics[width=8.5cm]{2.jpg}
  \caption{\label{fig:1} fig 1}
  \caption{\label{fig:2} fig 2}
  \end{figure}
Leave out your abstract.
If the abstract had some information in it that wasn't mentioned elsewhere add it to the report.
Don't mention major implementation details. For example,
- DON'T SAY: "I extracted the data by writing a script in perl that parsed each line by .... It was then used to..." DO SAY: "The important data was extracted and used to ...".
- It is ok to say briefly what software you used: "Clairlib was used to extract the statistics...."
Remove Italian Network from Homework 1.

Editing each other's work:

Each student will be responsible for editing one other student's work. The final submission must be satisfactory according to both students before submission.
Both student's grades will be reflected on the final version (although more heavily on the author)
You will be contacted regarding the student you will be editing
The editing version should follow the rules above, but be created as a document and sent in pdf form. (Use this to create it as a document: test.tex)
The version for editing should include the references so that the student can confirm that they are in the proper format.