Make sure you know how to format a technical paper before your next report!
Learn how to add numbered footnotes - (google it if you don't know how)
- Use Headings - bold, numbered, underlined
- Use bullet lists and numbered procedures instead of long paragraphs.
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Use figure captions. Refer to figures in the text.
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- Use consistent format through entire report
- If different people write different sections, make sure when you put it all together it looks like one single report written by one single person.
- Don't plagiarize!
- Warning - I do random google checks on what you have written. Cite your references, use small quotes if you need to, but most of the report should be in your own words.
- Pay attention to simple grammar and spelling!
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It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
- Read what you have written out loud
- if it sounds strange when you hear it, then fix it.
- Read through the work of your team.
- Pay them $0.25 for every mistake they find in your work.
- Presentations
- Practice with one another
- practice in an empty room
- videotape yourself, watch yourself, and fix what you see.
Pay attention to people who impress you, - copy their techniques.
Use the LSC writing center!!
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Chapter 7: Succeeding in the classroom
Some random tips:
1. Learn from Failure, don't be scared off by it.
The only way you can really fail, is if you stop trying.
'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.” ― Robert S. Arrighi, Pursuit of Power: NASA's Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2
2. It's ok if you don't know everything.
No one knows everything.
3. It's ok to be a little insane.... most successful people are.
4. Be a team player, and be the MVP.
5. Be patient, go with the flow, your chance will come.
- this book is a best-seller for a reason!
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Take initiative in life by realizing that your decisions (and how they align with life's principles) are the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Take responsibility for your choices and the consequences that follow.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Self-discover and clarify your deeply important character values and life goals. Envision the ideal characteristics for each of your various roles and relationships in life.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
A manager must manage his own person. Personally. And managers should implement activities that aim to reach the second habit. Covey says that rule two is the mental creation; rule three is the physical creation.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Genuinely strive for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had got his way.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Use empathic listening to be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, and positive problem solving.
Habit 6: Synergize
Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could have done alone.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, prayer (meditation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions service to society for spiritual renewal.
Take initiative in life by realizing that your decisions (and how they align with life's principles) are the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Take responsibility for your choices and the consequences that follow.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Self-discover and clarify your deeply important character values and life goals. Envision the ideal characteristics for each of your various roles and relationships in life.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
A manager must manage his own person. Personally. And managers should implement activities that aim to reach the second habit. Covey says that rule two is the mental creation; rule three is the physical creation.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Genuinely strive for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had got his way.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Use empathic listening to be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, and positive problem solving.
Habit 6: Synergize
Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could have done alone.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, prayer (meditation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions service to society for spiritual renewal.
7.2 Attitude
Ability is what you're capable of doing
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz
7.3 Goals
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Create a mission statement - define a standard, and strive for it.
7.4 Keys to effectiveness
Take time to study! 2 hours of study outside of class for every hour in class.
Go to class, keep up with class, participate in class, take notes in class.
Practice - read example problems, then solve a few problems on your own.
Study in groups
7.5 Test Taking
Come prepared (be there early, with pencils, paper, etc.)
Skim through entire test before starting
Do the easy problems first
keep track of the time
Go for partial credit - don't leave anything blank - if you know it's wrong, explain that you know it is wrong, and write down your thinking process.
Don't erase your work - just put a single line through it (you might get more partial credit)
Check over your answers, and re-check them. Don't leave early.
Go over the graded test - correct mistakes, study it for the next test.-
7.6 Make the most of your professors / tutoring centers
You paid for it - might as well use it!
http://www.lonestar.edu/learning-kingwood.htm
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