Writing a Survey Paper

1 Write a Survey Paper

You can use the example LaTeX skeleton for writing a survey paper.

Bear in mind:

• Make sure that LaTeX is set up to produce a two-sided PDF for duplex printing:

  \documentclass[11pt,onecolumn,twoside]{report}
  

  This is the default in the skeleton provided.

• Make sure that each chapter (and main part such as Table of Contents and References) starts on a fresh right-hand-sided (odd-numbered) page. [for two-sided printing]

  This is the default in the skeleton provided (\cleardoublepage).

• Draw any diagrams as vector graphics (with Illustrator or Inkscape) and hand in the original source files (.ai or .svg) as well. Export as vector PDF to include into LaTeX.

2 Prepare Your Survey Report Directory

Your directory structure should look something like this:

  ivis-ss2016-g1-survey/
    data/
    latex-src/
      diagrams/
      images/
    literature/
    presentation/
    software/
    videos/
    ivis-ss2016-g1-survey.pdf

Bear in mind:

• Include the final PDF of your survey paper in a file called ivis-ssYYYY-gN-survey.pdf, where YYYY is the year and N is your group number, for example ivis-ss2016-g1-survey.pdf.
• Include the LaTeX source of your survey paper in a subdirectory called latex-src.
• Include the slides (ppt, pdf, html) from your final presentation in a subdirectory called presentation.
• Include any additional papers or literature which you discovered in a subdirectory called literature.

• Include any data files you used in a data folder.

• Include any code examples in a software folder.

• Include any screencast video demos in a videos folder. You can make screencasts with Camtasia or similar software. If you can, include an audio track explaining what you are doing (in English).

3 Hand In Your Work

Zip up everything as a file named somthing like ivis-ss2016-g1-survey.zip to hand in.