Write a paper lightly and happily take a degree

Now it is the time for college graduates to complete their graduation project and to write their thesis, and we often have to languish one months to complete their graduation thesis. Now you're mostly using Microsoft Word to edit your paper (no matter which version you use, the basic functionality is consistent, hereinafter referred to as word). If you don't have the power to make a lot of word, you may often have to worry about changing the format when writing and editing a long, scientific paper. Here I summarize my previous experience and lessons learned from word in order to make a point.

A paper should include two levels of meaning: content and performance, content refers to the author used to express their thoughts of the text, pictures, tables, formulas and the entire article chapter paragraph structure, performance refers to the paper page size, margin, a variety of fonts, font size and so on. The same content can have different performance, such as an article in different publishing houses will have different performance, and different content can use the same performance, such as a journal published in all the articles are the same performance. The relationship between the two is self-evident.

The author thinks, the editor of "performance" of the thesis is a very time-consuming and laborious work. If before writing a paper, do all aspects of preparation, and according to certain rules to write and arrange, will have a multiplier effect; otherwise, it will bring you endless pain. The author according to own master thesis experience, to provide you with the following suggestions for your reference.

It is said that the master's thesis is like a one-month Coolie Porter, working hard, can't write much, the doctor's graduation thesis is like having a child, burn also have a spring and autumn period. The above proposal is not comprehensive, but I believe that more useful, I hope that you can learn from the paper writers. If you have any questions, take the time to read the Word column and study the Word Help document, and I'm sure it will work with less effort.

1, with good style

To write a paper, be sure to use the style, in addition to Word originally provided the title, body and other styles, you can customize the style.

If you find yourself using selected text and formatting in a format bar, be sure to think about whether the same format is needed elsewhere, and if so, it's best to define a style. For the same typesetting performance content must adhere to the unified style, this can greatly reduce the workload and error opportunities. If you want to make adjustments to the layout format (document performance), simply change the associated style at once. Another benefit of using styles is that Word can automatically generate various catalogs and indexes.

Under normal circumstances, regardless of the writing of academic papers or dissertations, the corresponding magazine or degree-awarding agencies will, according to their specific requirements, to the author of a clear format requirements. For example, ask for song body, small four, line spacing 17 points and so on. In this way, the writer can set the style before writing the paper, so it will be very convenient to write the paper.

For example, the author uses Microsoft Office Word 2003 to design the following figure:

2. Use cross-reference to set number

Be sure not to knock the number, recommend the use of cross-references, or manually entered the number is likely to give you the article changes to bring endless trouble. The number of headings can be achieved by setting the heading style, and the number of tables and graphs is done by setting the number of captions. When writing the words "see chapter X, as shown in Figure X", do not knock the numbers yourself, use cross-references. When you do this, all the numbers and references are automatically updated when you insert or delete new content, without human maintenance. And you can automatically generate diagrams, table directories.

3, Alignment

Be sure not to use a manual space to achieve the purpose of alignment. Only English words will have spaces, Chinese documents have no spaces. All alignment should take advantage of rulers, tab stops, alignment, and indentation of paragraphs. If you find yourself playing a space manually, be cautious and think about whether you can avoid it by other means. In the same vein, you must not adjust the spacing of the paragraphs by knocking in the carriage.

4. Drawing Skills

The paper will use a lot of charts, I strongly recommend that paper writers to distinguish between the graphics and tables in the paper, the table can be written using the tools provided by word, very simple, here is no longer to repeat. Block diagram and flowchart editing, I strongly recommend using Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003, which is bound in Office 2003. If you can't tolerate the speed with which Visio objects are copied to Word, you can also try Smarddraw, which is no less powerful than Visio, and it's a lot faster to use than Visio.

5. Edit the mathematical formula

In the paper to edit the mathematical formula, personal advice to use MathType5.0, in fact, word integration of the formula Editor is its version 3.0. After you install MathType, Word adds a menu item, which features a clear glance. It is recommended that you use the automatic numbering and referencing features of MathType so that you have a good alignment effect, and you can automatically update the number. A common problem with inserting formulas in the body of Word is to make the top and bottom spacing large and unattractive, which can be fixed by fixing the line spacing. But to remind paper writers, if you have MathType5.0 installed on your computer, the formula is written very quickly and takes up a small amount of CPU. But when you're ready to print your paper, remember to look for a MathType5.0 computer to print, otherwise our formula will be "gone".