Guidelines for Reports
Your report will be evaluated for mathematical correctness and
completeness, and for its narrative quality. Write in complete English
sentences. When you introduce a new variable, tell what it stands for;
say what its dimensional units are (meters, kilograms, seconds, ...)
if appropriate.
Your report may be either typed or handwritten. Legibility is more
important than choice of medium.
Graphs may be printed or hand-drawn. Again, choice of medium is less
important than legibility: provide each graph with a title, axis
labels, a caption and legend as appropriate, to inform the reader what
the graph displays.
Use worked examples in the textbook as models for writing your report.
Throughout the report, take care to
- Tell what each paragraph is about.
- Tell what are you doing, and why.
- If using a diagram, tell what you observe in it (and if a diagram is
not on the same page as the referring text, tell the reader where to
find it).
- State your conclusions, and justify them with reasons.
Each problem must have a designated solver and at least one
editor. The solver drafts a solution of the problem. The
editor corrects all errors in the draft solution, and coordinates the
solution with other editors so that the final report is a unified
coherent narrative. You as a team member are required to be the solver
of at least one problem, and editor of at least one
different problem. Your individual grade for the report will
be computed as 50% of your team's overall grade plus 50% of the
percentage on all problems for which you served as either solver or
editor.
