A Well Planned Writing #1

7 Writing Principles

Introduction What did you do? Why?
Materials & Methods How did you do it
Results What did you find
Discussions Your interpretation of results
Summary Statement of main findings
Acknowledgements Who helped
References Details of reference cited

Source: SCIENTIST MUST WRITES: A GUIDE TO BETTER WRITING FOR SCIENTIST, ENGINEERS AND STUDENTS, Robert Barrass, 1978 (old edition), Chapman & Hall.

I found that I need to upgrade my writing skills especially when sometime I felt that I am OK with my writing and most of the time I felt that I’m doing it the wrong way. First I must read and try to analyze any interested papers/journals and later divide its contents into those 7 principles. I believed theoretical papers would probably cause me more than 2 weeks or months for extracting the contents.

Famous Groups Packing Early

EURO 2008- After Portugal, followed by Netherlands and now its time for my favorite team Italy. I stay last night and watch the early of the game and I know that the Spain will go through. The way Italy play last night was not the way they've played during the last World cup. The energy and ball control was not really a full blast. Without a doubt Spain reserve the semi-finalist title.

A very unexpected outcome German-Turkey, Russia-Spain. If the underdog team won this year EURO, Greece wining over Portugal will be remembered...

Academic Advisory Workshop

"Bengkel Penasihatan Akademik"- I was asked to join this workshop for future sake. It was announced one day before that tutors are compulsory to attend this. I'm being quite skeptical about this compulsory thing as I'm quite sure that when the day come, I will only see the faces of my department's tutors only. As the day arrived, yes I was right. Other faces are our senior lectures and some are the new young lectures. This is not hearing myself making complaint but I believed its a good practice of our head of department to show some enthusiastism from the member of department to any program launched by the faculty.

During the workshop, we were all been spread of by five talks given by respective speaker, mostly related towards academic advisory element since at the end of this month, new student will start to begin their new semester. Everything is mostly tackled on how a lecturer handle his/her student successfully. But above all I enjoyed the talk given by the head of Counseling Section of the university where he's content is most of not boring. I must say that usually a counselor know how to tackle an audience since that kind of thing is the thing they use to.

One thing I learn was, keep yourself happy and smile as it represents a smart people. To start a practice try to pronounce the number TIGA as tige, 3. Look at the mirror and I'll tell you that you will find yourself smiling. Even though you are trying enough not to smile. Go...try it on

Discussion No. 23

We had resume our 23rd discussion group. The topic is not related to either maths or physics, but it was related to the word editor used by scientist especially physicist and mathematician when they are publishing their journals, books, theses and so on.

This is again about LaTeX. I just found out that all this while I had pronounce it wrongly. TeX is not pronounce as Te(ks), it was actually Te(ch) like we said 'te(ch)nology". Our speaker of the day, as I can called him a pro-user of LaTeX as he's been using LaTeX for quite a long time and it has became of his a used to of word editor. He did highlight a few of importance of user to use LaTeX as it is professional especially for publications and most of all author concentrate on content without paying much attention of the format setting.

I personally think that, LaTeX is absolutely nice together with the slide presentation and drawing image option. All we need to do is make sure that packages related must be installed in the miktex system.

Right now, I am trying to convert my master thesis to LaTeX version, as I'm happy to see the result later on. God Willing...

EURO 2008

Well, my favorite season of all time is back. EURO fever is now back on and as always I hope my favorite team ITALY will be the winner of this EURO 2008.

Happy footballing guys!!!

LaTeX Workshop

I've attended 1 and a 1/2 day LaTeX workshop organized by the maths institute. This is my first time participation in a LaTeX workshop with a formality. Previously, I was using LaTeX by learning them by myself together with the guidance of my SIFU. Also perviously I used MikTek together with WinEdit as the LaTeX editor but joining the workshop, I have found out more nicer and acceptable editor which can make me learn and grabs the technique faster.

Just name them few, TeXniccenter, ProTeX,

I think later I myself might want to install this TexnicCenter since everything we want is in one window only. And furthermore there's more icons and everything which is very handy if to compare to the previous known editor. Or maybe it is because I used the old version of WinEdit.

I fall in love with this new word editor for REAL

Completion

Early this month I had defense my master thesis in front of few recognize faces as my examination committee. It was very strange and later on awkward to confidently present my work to them. It is becoming more churning to stomach that my external was now entitled a professor and he's a mathematical physicist which known to be precise and particular.

However, that morning also, the officer in charged gave me a very happy news indeed. My external won't show up as the report he send going well and he actually satisfied with the content. So according to the new university regulation, reports by external that written satisfied won't be invited to the defense session. Lucky me I guess.

I have now completed my master study. Thanks millions to my supervisor. His time, courage and energy have put me through all the hard and happy time during the digestion of my thesis. And of course for listening to all my cents.

Appreciation also goes to people around me, family, friends and so on.

Thank You.