Category: Writing
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How to change text case in LibreOffice
Dear friends, After a long hiatus due to so many paper works that I have to work on, finally I get to post a short article on how to change text case in LibreOffice. Have you ever felt irritated, when ever you typed a set of texts in to a cell of a group of…
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WTF: More on reference manager Zotero
(image from: wiki.ubc.ca) Dear friends, I’ve been posting my research plan for 2015 in various medias, so that my students, or any other students in Indonesia could read it and participate. I’ve got many responses. And the following post is my comment. I’ll make the translation later on. — In Indonesian — Kalau anda berminat pertama…
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WTF: Example of filtering result from Scopus
Dear friends, Before we start to write or conduct a research, in this case PhD research, one should write a literature review. Before we do the actual writing, first we search for any previous researches or papers. To do this we must choose the database that we are going to use. You can use Google…
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Links to learn data analysis in Excel for (geology) students
(image from: homepages.spa.umn.edu) Dear friends, The following post was originated from my email to two students under my supervision. They’re both working on data analysis. Instead on pushing them to learn new software, R for instance, I spread some seeds for them to learn deeper into software that they’ve already known. Some students, or it’s my students,…
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WTF: Merging duplicated citation info Zotero
With your long list of citation info over the years, there might be chances of duplicated citation info. Reference manager is very handy in dealing with this problem. The following picture is how you do it in Zotero. Just go to the “Duplicates” tab in your left side pane. It will detect duplicated entries in…
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WTF: Sepuluh hal penting dalam menyiapkan tabel data
Ten things in dataset preparation oleh: Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Institut Teknologi Bandung 22 Oktober 2014 Data harus benar (Put in correct data) Kolom berisi parameter/variable (Columns are for parameters/variables) Baris berisi sampel/lokasi pengukuran (Rows are for samples/observations) Berikan kolom nomor urut (Use a manual row number) Berikan identitas yang bersistem (Use a systematic identity) Jumlah kolom boleh banyak (Use as many columns as…
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WTF: Lima hal penting saat menyiapkan peta kerja
Five things in map preparation oleh: Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Institut Teknologi Bandung 22 October 2014 Jelas (Clear) Tajam (resolusi cukup) (Enough resolution) Memiliki koordinat (Show coordinate) Bersih (Clean) Hindari hindari warna dan arsiran untuk peta dalam teks (Avoid colors for in-text map) (pdf is available at Academia.edu) Salah satu komponen paling penting di awal menulis adalah menyiapkan peta kerja atau…
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WTF: Reference manager: citation info
Skip this post if you’re an experience (academic) writer. That will save your time. :-). pdf or this post is available at Academia.edu. Ever heard of reference manager? If you’ve heard or used EndNote (a long widely known software owned by Thomson Reuters), then you must know what is reference manager is. Basically it stores your references.…
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A wordcloud
A word cloud of my posts (from Jason Davies Word Cloud Generator)
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Open source writing
Open Source Writing. I’ve been working on a deadline this week. Then here’s a question that popped along the way: Can we write in fully open source kind of way? This is a short slide to share my way how to do it. 141021-OpenSourceWriting