Mathematics 412A        Winter 2006

W credit

If you would like W credit for Math 412, turn in the following on the last day of class:

• For each of four homework exercises:
  • a copy of your initial attempts at the problem
  • a copy of any drafts which you showed to your group, plus comments they had on it
  • a copy of any drafts which you showed to me or to Jacob, plus comments we had on it
  • a copy of the draft you turned in, plus comments that Jacob had on it when he graded it
  • a copy of the revision (if you did one for that problem)
  For exercises from assignments 1 and 2, you may have discarded your early work, so you can instead summarize what the early drafts were like, what sorts of comments you received, and how you incorporated them into your final solutions.
• A cover sheet describing how well (or badly) the revision process went for these problems. Did the revision lead to a better solution? If so, better mathematically, or better explained, or better in some other way, or some combination?

Explanation of this assignment: in order to receive W credit, you need to demonstrate that you understand (and have participated in) the "writing process" in which you write a draft of your document, and then you revise it (repeatedly if necessary) until you get a draft that you're happy with (or you run out of time and have to hand it in).

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