How to Use Overleaf for collaborative Academic Writing — Part I

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What is Overleaf

How can you collaborate with yourself (working in different devices), your colleagues and students when you use Overleaf for text composition

Let’s set up the document first

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This is the simple interface of Overleaf when you first start. Click on “New Project” to get started
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This is the first screenshot when you start working with Overleaf
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The Interface of Overleaf when you first open the Sample Paper

The Left Window

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Now we have three panes. You can put all your files in the leftmost panes to get started
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The structure of the middle panel. Just change the minimum you need to change (see the text below)
Your Name \\ Your co-author’s name
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We have uploaded the bibliography file, indicated where to find the citation information, and all set
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This is how it is going to look like after we have turned on the rich text
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What happens when you hit “share” in Overleaf

A theory of creating sections within Overleaf and getting things done

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We created four documents and put them in the file manager in Overleaf
\include{name of the document}. 
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You can include as many sections as you like in the Overleaf document and reorder them

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