Guidelines for Written Homework

At class time on the due date, submit, as a team, the solution to your assigned problem. List all participating team members as co-authors of your solution.

Your solution will be evaluated for

• mathematical correctness and completeness, and
• the quality of the writing.

You may type your solution or write it by hand. Legibility is more important than choice of medium.

• Write in complete English sentences.
• Tell what each paragraph is about (use topic sentences).
• Tell what every variable stands for and what its dimensional units are (meters, kilograms, seconds, ...) if any.
• Distinguish between "solve" and "evaluate:"
  • You solve an equation 2x=4 for an unknown x to find its value x=2.
  • You evaluate an integral ∫ 3x² dx to find the value of the antiderivative x³+C.
• Indent important equations and all but the simplest calculations, and surround them with whitespace. If you need to refer to an equation, label it with a number.
• Show steps of calculations; omit only routine or obvious simplifications.
• Tell what are you doing, and why.
• State your conclusions, and justify them with reasons.

• 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.
• If a graph is not on the same page as the referring text, tell the reader where to find it.

• By submitting a paper for an assignment, you declare that all work presented without attribution is your own.
• Any work not your own that you submit without acknowledgment is subject to penalties for academic misconduct.

• Be aware of university policies on Academic Misconduct.
• Know what plagiarism is, and how to avoid it.
• The university catalog states the policies and procedures for cases of academic dishonesty.

You must give credit for anything you present in your paper that is not your own original work.

• If you use an item found on the internet, cite the URL.
• If you use material from a book or periodical, cite the author, title and publication data.

It is not necessary to cite material you learned

• from our textbook¹,
• from class,
• in office hours
• or at the Math Help Room.