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== Writing ==
=== VSS 2014 experience with printer settings ===
see [[Holcombe:PhrasesForGrantsAndPapers|Phrases for grants and papers]]
As in 2013 below (Pages->PDF->Acrobat on Windows) except checked both "Auto-Rotate and Center" and also "Choose paper source by PDF page size". Note that printable area of printer is slightly smaller than 1065 x 2280 mm, therefore do not have poster elements all the way up to the edge.


Also see [http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/discussions.htm The University Of Manchester's phrasebook]. It contains a number of phrases commonly used in scientific writing. "If you use these phrases in your writing, it will be boring, but generally more accepted by the scientific community" - Alex Holcombe PhD.
=== VSS 2013 experience with printer settings ===


For paragraphs and for larger structures and maybe even sentences, these are great guidelines:
Downloaded printer drivers from two different places for OSX, never found exact correct "HP DesignJet 500ps", although did find "HP DesignJet 500ps plus 42" etc.


1. Follow a grammatical subject as soon as possible with its verb.  
Never found a way to get Pages to print the right size to the printer.


2. Place in the stress position the "new information" you want the reader to emphasize.  
On Windows machine in corner of graphics lab, eventually found a way to print a PDF exported from Pages.


3. Place the person or thing whose "story" a sentence is telling at the beginning of the sentence, in the topic position.
Used Adobe Acrobat


4. Place appropriate "old information" (material already stated in the discourse) in the topic position for linkage backward and contextualization forward.
After trying many different combinations of paper layout and printer options, finally hit on the right combination, please see screenshots of print config screens below. Note the non-intuitive "Auto Rotate And Center" is checked, NOT "Choose paper source by PDF page size".  The other image is of the screen that pops up if you click on printer Properties and in this case the printer is called "poster".


5. Articulate the action of every clause or sentence in its verb.  
[[Image:AutoRotateAndCtr.PNG‎]]


6. In general, provide context for your reader before asking that reader to consider anything new.  
[[Image:ClickOnPrinterProperties.PNG‎]]


7. In general, try to ensure that the relative emphases of the substance coincide with the relative expectations for emphasis raised by the structure.
From "The Science of Scientific Writing". George Gopen, Judith Swan. November-December 1990 issue of American Scientist.
[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,content.true,page.6,css.print/issue.aspx The Science of Scientific Writing]


== Making Diagrams and Figures (not graphs) ==
== Making Diagrams and Figures (not graphs) ==
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Alex uses Keynote for simple drawings, and even for posters with many drawings. Powerpoint is also a possibility. Both can be frustrating for precision drawing
Alex uses Keynote for simple drawings, and Keynote or better Pages for posters with many drawings. Powerpoint is also a possibility. Both can be frustrating for precision drawing


The university has a site license for Adobe Illustrator. It comes with the Adobe CS5 suite which you can download from [http://itassist.usyd.edu.au/software/adobe/design-premium.shtml here]. You'll need a staff unikey to proceed.
The university has a site license for Adobe Illustrator. It comes with the Adobe CS5 suite which you can download from [http://itassist.usyd.edu.au/software/adobe/design-premium.shtml here]. You'll need a staff unikey to proceed.


== Psychology and Neuroscience Journal considerations ==
=== Preserving high resolution ===
{|
From an Excel graph, worked to paste it into Keynote, annotate with text. Export Keynote to PDF.
! Journal
! Publisher
! Degree to which open-access
! 2007 impact factor
|-
|Journal of Vision||ARVO||open-access, gold||3.8
|-
|BBS||Cambridge Uni Press||post-print, +publisher's version after 12 months
|-
|Psychological Review||APA||post-print||7.8
|-
|Trends in Cognitive Sciences||Elsevier||post-print||9.4
|-
|Vision Research||Elsevier||post-print||2.1
|-
|Cognition||Elsevier||post-print||3.8
|-
|Brain||OUP||pre-print, subject to some embargos||8.6
|-
|Current Biology||Elsevier||post-print
|-
|Neuron||Elsevier||post-print
|-
|J. Neurophysiology||Springer||post-print||3.7
|}
 
Elsevier additional:
Deposit due to Funding Body, Institutional and Governmental mandate only allowed where seperate agreement between repository and publisher exists
 
*Science 30
*Nature 26.7
*Nat Rev NEurosci 24.5
*BBS 17.462
*Nat Neurosci 15.7
*PLoS Biol 14.1
*Neuron 13.4
*Trends Neuro 12.5
*Current Biology 10.5
*PNAS 9.6
*Brain 8.6
*J Neurosci 7.5
*JCN 5
*Proc Royal Society Biol 4.1
*Cogni Psych 4.0
*JEP:HPP 2.6
*Cogn Neuropsych 1.9
*Visual Cognition 1.7
*Perception 1.6
*Memory & Cognition 1.6
*Percept Psychophy 1.4
*QJEP 1.1
*Spatial Vision .94


See [http://eigenfactor.org/index.php Eigenfactor] for better rankings.
From R, save image command, which yields PNG. But unfortunately it is not infinitely high resolution (not entirely a vector art). But seems good enough, can import into Keynote.

Revision as of 23:52, 14 May 2014

Recent members

• Alex Holcombe
• Ryo Nakayama


Technical

• Skills Checklist
• Python Programming
• Psychopy/VisionEgg Installation Notes
• R analysis,plot,stats
• Statistics
• Buttonbox
• Buttonbox with photocell
• Programming Cheat Sheets


Poster making

  • hp poster printer in psych IT area has roll paper width of 1065 mm
  • VSS 2011: Posterboards are 4’ (121.92 cm) tall x 8’ (243.84 cm) wide, however usable space is 228cm x 106cm
  • EPC 2011: poster sizes A0 portrait 84.1 x 118.9, or A1 any orientation 59 x 84

Bizarre printing problems, color stopping in middle of images etc., as with Pages: If you want to complex shapes and pictures, please group that object into a picture (because that object has two layouts is too awesome :) ). If you still lost some contents in your poster, the final weapon to fix the problem is to click the "advanced" button and then click print "as a image" when you printing with a PDF document. (but in this way, it takes more time.)

notes on making animated demos

VSS 2014 experience with printer settings

As in 2013 below (Pages->PDF->Acrobat on Windows) except checked both "Auto-Rotate and Center" and also "Choose paper source by PDF page size". Note that printable area of printer is slightly smaller than 1065 x 2280 mm, therefore do not have poster elements all the way up to the edge.

VSS 2013 experience with printer settings

Downloaded printer drivers from two different places for OSX, never found exact correct "HP DesignJet 500ps", although did find "HP DesignJet 500ps plus 42" etc.

Never found a way to get Pages to print the right size to the printer.

On Windows machine in corner of graphics lab, eventually found a way to print a PDF exported from Pages.

Used Adobe Acrobat

After trying many different combinations of paper layout and printer options, finally hit on the right combination, please see screenshots of print config screens below. Note the non-intuitive "Auto Rotate And Center" is checked, NOT "Choose paper source by PDF page size". The other image is of the screen that pops up if you click on printer Properties and in this case the printer is called "poster".


Making Diagrams and Figures (not graphs)

Inkscape is a free open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

Example:

Alex uses Keynote for simple drawings, and Keynote or better Pages for posters with many drawings. Powerpoint is also a possibility. Both can be frustrating for precision drawing

The university has a site license for Adobe Illustrator. It comes with the Adobe CS5 suite which you can download from here. You'll need a staff unikey to proceed.

Preserving high resolution

From an Excel graph, worked to paste it into Keynote, annotate with text. Export Keynote to PDF.

From R, save image command, which yields PNG. But unfortunately it is not infinitely high resolution (not entirely a vector art). But seems good enough, can import into Keynote.

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