Guidelines for Written Homework
Your report will be evaluated for mathematical correctness and
completeness, and for its narrative quality. Use worked examples in
the testbook as models:
- Write in complete English sentences.
- Show steps of calculations; omit only routine or obvious simplifications.
- Tell what every variable stands for and what its dimensional
units are (meters, kilograms, seconds, ...) if any.
- Tell what each paragraph is about (use topic sentences).
- Tell what are you doing, and why.
- State your conclusions, and justify them with reasons.
Your report may be either typed or handwritten. Legibility is more
important than choice of medium.
Use figures (graphs) when they are helpful. Graphs may be
printed or hand-drawn. It is more important for a graph to be
readable than to be high-tech. Provide each graph with a title,
axis labels, a caption and legend as appropriate. Tell the reader what
the graph shows (and if a graph is not on the same page as the
referring text, tell the reader where to find it).
