Useful_tips_thesis_writing.md

Useful tips for thesis writing (Work in progress, just like the thesis itself ;) )

(Many/most of these I learnt from Gül Varol !)

Additional recommandations

Setting up

• Find a template (mithesis for instance)
• Ask your supervisor for examples of well-written thesis
• Take some time to setup your text editor !

More details on my setup

I used mostly SublimeText3 with the LaTeXTools plugin and the Sumatra PDF viewer.

I made sure to enable spell checking, and to add specific missing words so that the spelling highlighting is meaningful

Preparing latex

• Useful commands to create placeholders
  • Placeholder figure : Add \newcommand{\draftfig}[1]{\fbox{\parbox[c][1in][c]{\textwidth}{#1}}} before \begin{document} and then create figures with \draftfig{Description of what the figure will be}
  • Highlighted TODO text: Add \newcommand{\TODO}[1]{\textcolor{red}{TODO: #1}} before \begin{document} and then use \TODO{Here say what you plan to do in the future.}
  • To speed-up computation, you can use the standalone latex package as per this stackexchange issue

Generic advice

• Add many illustrations (We are in computer vision :) but also probably true for any thesis ! )
• Make many connexions between sections (point to figures, to other relevant sections, ...)
• All figures/tables should be referenced in the text
• Make extra-sure you are citing relevant literature from your jury
• Ctrl + F "this paper" and replace with "this work"