The Akashic Field Chronicle

I’ve always thought Jorge Cham’s PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) Comics are simply brilliant, ever since someone recommended it to me at the start of my career as a grad student. Here’s one that’s very close to my heart right now:

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On my previous post, I showed you why you should be ditchin’ MS Word and instead learning LaTeX. In this post, I’ll give a very short glimpse of my basic workflow when using LaTeX. Which programs I use? Is there any particular way I use them? Hopefully this will get you started (if you haven’t yet) on mastering LaTeX for those technical papers.

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If you’re doing research work (in school or otherwise), or if you’re seriously considering a career in the field of research or maybe the academe, then you probably know by now how important it is to publish your work. As they say, in the academic world, it’s “Publish or Perish”. Basically, you’re only as good a researcher as the output you produce and the papers you publish. That isn’t entirely true of course, but it definitely helps if you publish frequently.

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