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Comments on Writing Reports
FER 10feb15
• See the book / readings for / as examples
– Headings
– Figures & tables
– Citations and References
• Reports to be portable/professional/usable
– Authors, contact details, date, pages
• See the course web site for student examples, see conferences,
published books, papers for other professional examples
• See ‘Writing mistakes that I hate’ for stuff we’ll mark up, not as
points off, but as stumbling blocks
• Use more paragraphs
• Use Outline mode in Word
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Intro - why is this important? Interesting?
Method - what did you do, so we can replicate and understand
Results - what you found, NO SOLO TABLES
Discussion/conclusions - What this means