Author Carpentry at FSCI 2019: Writing a Research Compendium and the Future of Scientific Reporting

Instructors: Tom Morrell, Donna Wrublewski

Lesson status: In Development

What you will learn:

• Identify the features of a reproducible and dynamic research communication (Paper of the Future) that is fit to enter the scholarly record.
• Recognize at least three models of “Future Papers” now in publication.
• Describe the benefits of composing research reports with open authoring tools.
• Apply a text-based workflow for creating a paper that combines dynamic text, code and software.
• Demonstrate an open-source workflow for automatically converting openly authored documents for publication, online posting and professional presentation.
• Demonstrate use of the RStudio GUI platform for authoring and producing professional-quality research reports.

Full Syllabus

Topics:

1. Day 1: Introduction
2. Day 2: Basic Markdown
3. Day 3: Dynamic Documents
4. Day 4: Publishing

Requirements

Author Carpentry’s teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools, but working through this lesson requires working copies of R and Rstudio. We’ll work through any software installation problems during the first day.