- Year of Creation: 2025
- Posted Online on: 16 June 2025
- Duration: Over 32 Hours
- Total Video Lectures: 16
About This Course
Scientific writing is a critical skill for researchers, academics, and professionals involved in producing technical or scholarly documents. LaTeX is the gold standard tool used globally for writing scientific documents, offering precision, control, and professional-quality output. This course has been thoughtfully designed to introduce and train learners in the art and science of writing professional documents using LaTeX.
Whether you are preparing a thesis, writing a research paper, crafting a report, or designing a presentation, this course will walk you through all the essential components of LaTeX. Starting from installation and basic syntax, you will gradually explore document structure, mathematical equations, tables, figures, citations, bibliographies, and more.
Participants will learn to format complex documents with ease, manage references using BibTeX, and troubleshoot common typesetting issues. The course content is suitable for beginners with no prior experience in LaTeX, as well as for intermediate users seeking to refine their skills.
On completion, learners will be equipped with the ability to independently create well-organized, publication-ready scientific documents. The course combines clear explanations with hands-on demonstrations, ensuring a smooth learning experience for researchers, students, and professionals alike.
Topics Covered
- Day 1: Introduction to LaTeX and its importance
- Day 2: Fonts selection and text formatting
- Day 3: Page layout and page style
- Day 4: Listing of items
- Day 5: Table preparation
- Day 6: Figure insertion
- Day 7: Equation writing
- Day 8: Bibliography preparation
- Day 9: Article writing
- Day 10: Thesis writing
- Day 11: Slide preparation
- Day 12: Poster preparation
- Day 13: Drawing figures and plotting functions/datasets
- Day 14: Document writing in Indian languages using LaTeX
- Day 15: Any incomplete topic of previous days, Quiz, and Feedback
Requirements
No prior knowledge of LaTeX is required. However, basic familiarity with scientific writing and general document structure will be helpful.
Learners should have access to a computer with internet connectivity.
An interest in academic or technical writing and a willingness to learn a powerful typesetting tool.
