Dissertation writing tips and resources

• Helping Doctoral Students Write
• Strategies for brainstorming
• What makes writing hard

Latex tips

• Page numbering trick thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/501394,
• Text wrapping implemented per https://latexindentpl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sec-the-m-switch.html#text-wrap-simple-examples,
• InputIfFileExists https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/311133/does-inputiffileexists-not-work-anymore,
• Month year date format https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/212263/month-year-format-in-latex,
• UCSB Graddiv LaTeX template: https://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/filing/filing-your-thesis-dissertation-or-dma-supporting-document,
• Image cropping https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57418/crop-an-inserted-image,
• TColorBox https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13506/how-to-continue-the-framed-text-box-on-multiple-pages,
• LongTable prevent multiple listoftables entries https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26024/how-to-use-a-longtable-with-only-one-entry-in-the-list-of-tables,
• TikZ Picture scaling everything (incl. text) https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4338/correctly-scaling-a-tikzpicture,
• LaTeX for-each loop https://tikz.dev/pgffor