[OS X TeX] Getting students to use LaTeX (and apa.cls)

Themis Matsoukas matsoukas at psu.edu
Thu Aug 17 14:46:46 EDT 2006


On 8/17/06, Michael Kubovy <kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Your write "I don't let my students use anything else". Do you impose
> this on students working in your lab, or students in a course? If the
> latter, are these grad students? How do you persuade them to do
> what's best for them and abandon the deeply ingrained MSW habit?

Last semester I taught two undergraduates in my lab to use latex.  
They had to start from scratch with MikTeX (not much help from me  
there), but they got it quite fast. In a dumb-down world of low  
expectations where anything beyond MSW is too geeky and anything  
beyond high-school algebra is too advanced, these kids made me feel  
better about the future.

Themis
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