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Homework guidelines

Homework guidelines

ISyE 6662 - Spring 2013: Homework guidelines

The solutions to the homework are required to be typesetted in LaTeX. Please find a LaTeX template and more information in the LaTeX folder in the Resources section of the course's T-square site.

Please follow the following guidelines regarding your homework solutions:

Homeworks are meant as individual assignments. Although you are encouraged to discuss them with your classmates, each student should complete and submit his/her own work, unless specifically instructed to work in groups. Cite all reference sources used in your assignments. Late homework submissions will not be accepted, except for serious unavoidable circumstances.

Write your name and class clearly at the top of at least the first page, along with the assignment number and the page number(s). If you are not stapling or paper-clipping the pages together, then put your name or initials on all the pages.

Use standard-sized white paper (8.5" x 11"). Attach your pages with a paper clip or staple. Do not fold, tear, spit on, or otherwise "dog-ear" the pages. It is better that the pages be handed in loose (with your name on each sheet) than that the corners be folded or shredded.

Clearly indicate the number of the exercise you are doing. If you accidentally do a problem out of order, or separate part of the problem from the rest, then include a note to the grader, referring the grader to the missed problem or work. It is OK if you don't write down the statement of the problems, but use clear references to the assigned problems.

Do "scratch work," but do it on scratch paper; hand in only the "final draft." Show your steps, but any work that is scribbled in the margins belongs on scratch paper, not on your homework.

Show your work. Show everything in between the question and the answer. Use complete English sentences if the meaning of the mathematical sentences is not otherwise clear. For your work to be complete, you need to explain your reasoning and make your computations clear.

Do not invent your own notation and abbreviations, and then expect the grader to figure out what you meant. For instance, do not use "#" in your sentence if you mean "pounds" or "numbers". Do not use the "equals" sign ("=") to mean "indicates", "is", "leads to", "is related to", or anything else in a sentence; use actual words. The equals sign should be used only in equations, and only to mean "is equal to".

Remember to put your final answer at the end of your work, and mark it clearly by, for example, underlining it. Label your answer appropriately. If the question is a word problem, the answer should be in words.

Try to be clear as you can in the exposition of your solution. Get used to presenting your ideas in an orderly fashion. This affects the way your work is graded or even considered by colleagues or reviewers in the future.

Based on "Homework Guidelines", http://www.purplemath.com/guidline.htm Copyright © 1990-2011 Elizabeth Stapel, Used By Permission