Section: Course Materials | Additional Skills (2025-26)

Lecturer: Profile: Kathryn Gillow

Course information

Course term: Michaelmas

Course lecture information: 16 lectures

Course overview:

All students will attend the Additional Skills sessions in MT. These will provide information about how the course is assessed and advice about special topics as well as covering the use of LaTeX and the web, sources of numerical software, literature searches, communication and career development. A careers event is usually organised in November.

Section outline

- Select activity Week 1: Programme for the term
  
  Week 1: Programme for the term File
- Select activity Week 1: Links
  
  Week 1: Links File
- Select activity Week 1: Exam conventions summary
  
  Week 1: Exam conventions summary File
- Select activity Week 1: Guidelines on special topics
  
  Week 1: Guidelines on special topics File
- Select activity Week 2: Using the web
  
  Week 2: Using the web File
- Select activity Week 2: Introduction to LaTeX
  
  Week 2: Introduction to LaTeX File
- Select activity Week 2: LaTeX example
  
  Week 2: LaTeX example File
  
  Zip file with example LaTeX file written in week 2 (downloaded as source from Overleaf)
- Select activity Week 2: LaTeX example pdf
  
  Week 2: LaTeX example pdf File
  
  pdf file produced from LaTeX file written in week 2
- Select activity Week 3: Badly written document
  
  Week 3: Badly written document File
  
  There are well over 40 deliberate mistakes in this document. How many can you find?
- Select activity Week 3: Annotated version of badly written document
  
  Week 3: Annotated version of badly written document File
  
  Annotated version of Week 3: Badly written document. Use with Week 3: List of corrections.
- Select activity Week 3: List of corrections
  
  Week 3: List of corrections File
  
  List of corrections to Week 3: Badly written document. This should be used with Week 3: Annotated version of badly written document. Some related LaTeX tips are also included.
- Select activity Week 3: ChatGPT feedback
  
  Week 3: ChatGPT feedback File
  
  ChatGPT was asked for feedback on the Week 3: Badly written document. This level of feedback is permitted by the departmental AI policy.
- Select activity Week 3: ChatGPT rewrite
  
  Week 3: ChatGPT rewrite File
  
  ChatGPT then volunteered to produce a LaTeX file with the proposed improvements to the Week 3: Badly written document implemented. The file below is what is produced by running pdflatex. This is not permitted by the departmental AI policy as it constitutes "substantive original writing by Gen AI".
- Select activity Week 4: Doing a DPhil
  
  Week 4: Doing a DPhil File
- Select activity Week 6: Special topic tips
  
  Week 6: Special topic tips File
- Select activity Week 6: How to write an [M] special topic
  
  Week 6: How to write an [M] special topic File
- Select activity Week 6: How to write a [C] special topic
  
  Week 6: How to write a [C] special topic File
- Select activity Week 6: Assessment guidelines for special topics
  
  Week 6: Assessment guidelines for special topics File
- Select activity Week 6: Special topic template (LaTeX version)
  
  Week 6: Special topic template (LaTeX version) File
- Select activity Week 6: Special topic template (pdf produced by LaTeX file)
  
  Week 6: Special topic template (pdf produced by LaTeX file)
- Select activity Week 7: Dissertation handbook summary
  
  Week 7: Dissertation handbook summary File
- Select activity Week 7: Presentation Skills
  
  Week 7: Presentation Skills File
- Select activity Week 8: Exam URLs
  
  Week 8: Exam URLs File
- Select activity Week 8: Plagiarism and citation guide
  
  Week 8: Plagiarism and citation guide File
- Select activity Week 8: AI declaration form
  
  Week 8: AI declaration form File
  
  You will be asked to complete an AI declaration form like this when you submit reports via Inspera. The AI declaration is not needed within the project itself.

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