These 8-page notes address the parts of a paper; mathematical style for attribution, citation, and internal references; the distinction between belief and proof; and a miscellany of 15 common errors. These errors range from grammatical issues such as articles and comma splices to errors of precision, notational consistency, and sequencing of information. Examples are included.
Read more →Posts Tagged Resource
This student handout includes examples of plagiarism of math writing as well as examples of acceptable paraphrasing of math sources. The handout is written in the style of and is meant to accompany M.I.T.’s Academic Integrity Handbook, which has similar examples from humanities contexts. The Academic Integrity Handbook is available at http://integrity.mit.edu/handbook/academic-writing/avoiding-plagiarism-paraphrasing
Read more →Skeleton for journal articles to be published in M.I.T.’s Undergraduate Journal of Mathematics. The journal is no longer published, but this skeleton is still used in some of M.I.T.’s communication-intensive math classes. Save the style files as mathp2e.sty and thmp2e.sty (remove the final number from each name) and store them in the same folder as the .tex file.
Read more →A LaTeX skeleton for an analysis problem set (pre-populated with Rudin as a bibliography item, but otherwise blank).
Read more →A template for submitting pset solutions in LaTeX
Read more →A list of links to resources for (ams-)LaTeX
Read more →This is a basic handout for students beginning to teach themselves LaTeX.
Read more →This collection of resources for LaTeX novices includes a handout explaining how to get started with LaTeX as well as a template and a verbose template. The handout lists further resources.
Read more →This handout demonstrates how guiding text can be used to communicate the structure of logic or text.
Read more →This student handout gives guidance for explaining algorithms clearly. Advice includes knowing the knowledge level of the audience, stating the algorithm’s purpose before going into details, indicating the structure of the explanation, defining new terms in context, viewing a draft from the point of view of a reader, asking for peer feedback, and proofreading. From MIT’s Principles of Applied Mathematics.
Read more →