Edinburgh Napier School of Computing Honours Dissertation
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Simon Wells
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Abstract
A LaTeX template for the School of Computing Honours Dissertation report at Edinburgh Napier University
A LaTeX template for the School of Computing Honours Dissertation report at Edinburgh Napier University
%You can delete all the comments after you have finished your document
%this sets up the defaults for the documents, 12pt font and A4 size. The article type sets this up as such as opposed to letter or memo.
%for the finer points LaTeX see https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX or http://tex.stackexchange.com/
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{titlesec} %these are how we import packages, one helps set up footers and title layout
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\newcommand{\sectionbreak}{\clearpage}
\usepackage{apacite}
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % set input encoding (not needed with XeLaTeX)
\usepackage{graphicx} % support the \includegraphics command and options
% \usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
%%% PACKAGES
\usepackage{booktabs} % for much better looking tables
\usepackage{array} % for better arrays (eg matrices) in maths
\usepackage{paralist} % very flexible & customisable lists (eg. enumerate/itemize, etc.)
\usepackage{verbatim} % adds environment for commenting out blocks of text & for better verbatim
\usepackage{subfig} % make it possible to include more than one captioned figure/table in a single float
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
% These packages are all incorporated in the memoir class to one degree or another...
%header and footer settings
\pagestyle{fancyplain}
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\fancyhead[L]{Joe Bloggs - 2201882}
\fancyhead[R]{ SOC10101 Honors Project}
\fancyfoot[L]{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%this starts the document
\begin{document}
%you can import other documents into your main one, these layout the Title and Declarations on its own page.
%you might need to change these to \ if your on Microsoft Windows.
\input{./Dissertation-Title.tex}
\input{./Dissertation-Dec.tex}
\pagebreak
\input{./Dissertation-DP.tex}
\pagebreak
%LaTeX let you define the abstract separately so it wont get sucked into the main document.
\begin{abstract}
% fill the abstract in here
\end{abstract}
\pagebreak
\tableofcontents % is generated for you
\newpage
\listoftables
%generated in same way as figures
\newpage
\listoffigures
%you may have captions such as equations, listings etc they should all appear as required
%these are done for you as long as you use \begin{figure}[placement settings] .. bla bla ... \end{figure}
\newpage
\section*{Acknowledgements}
Insert acknowledgements here
\subsection*{}
I would like to thank my cat, dog and family.
\newpage
\section{Title of section would go here}
You can fill out sections as you please. \\ %adds a line brake
Most of the formatting is taken care for you but you can add this yourself as you please.
\subsection{Title of subsection would go here}
Or have sections that are relevant to your main body of work above but warrant there own section. Both - with numbering would be entered into the Table of contents.
\subsubsection{Overview Of Project Content and Milestones}
This is a sub sub section with a list of bullet points.
\begin{itemize}\itemsep0pt
\item A working X, that will be used for this investigation.
\item Investigation of current tools and their potential use during an investigation of X .
\item Programming of X with related frameworks Y and Z.
\item That is all.
\end{itemize}
\section{Chapter 2}
The following bibliographic information on Writing a literature review is contained in the \emph{bibliography.bib} file \cite{randolph2009guide}
The template automatically starts new chapters on a new page. The associated guidelines tell you what the available styles do and also how to structure a report.
There is a section break on this page that you should be careful NOT to delete otherwise the references and appendices will be numbered continuously with the rest of the document.
% another example section
\section{Additional Information / Knowledge Required}
Experience with Linux and managing Virtual machines, networking.
So on and so forth...
\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{bibliography}
%you can crate this on a extra tex document just like the title or any other part of the document.
\newpage
\begin{appendices}
\section{Project Overview}
%insert IPO
\begin{subappendices}
\subsection{Example sub appendices}
...
\end{subappendices}
\section{Second Formal Review Output}
Insert a copy of the project review form you were given at the end of the review by the second marker
\section{Diary Sheets (or other project management evidence)}
Insert diary sheets here together with any project management plan you have
\section{Appendix 4 and following}
insert content here and for each of the other appendices, the title may be just on a page by itself, the pages of the appendices are not numbered, unless an included document such as a user manual or design document is itself pager numbered.
\end{appendices}
\end{document}