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Writing Exercise Reports: Advise and Instructions

This document provides guidelines for writing exercise reports, including structuring the report with a title page, order of pages, and identification; explaining solutions clearly with explanations, references, figures, graphs, tables, and equations; and ensuring consistent formatting with margins, page numbers, sources, and units. The guidelines are intended to make reports easier for exam readers and assistants to follow and to train students in professional technical writing.

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Writing Exercise Reports: Advise and Instructions

This document provides guidelines for writing exercise reports, including structuring the report with a title page, order of pages, and identification; explaining solutions clearly with explanations, references, figures, graphs, tables, and equations; and ensuring consistent formatting with margins, page numbers, sources, and units. The guidelines are intended to make reports easier for exam readers and assistants to follow and to train students in professional technical writing.

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Writing exercise reports

Advise and instructions

FB - 7-oct-2004
Why write in a certain way?
• Easier to read (for the exam reader and for
the assistant)
• Avoid misunderstandings
• Training for writing
– essays
– thesis
– work
– scientific writing
The folded A3
• Cover
• Order
• Becomes a
booklet
• Keeps all
papers
together
• Preferred 5
mm squared
paper
Attach the assignment text
• As first page
• Specification for
the exercise
• Easy
identification
• Assignment text
and solution
belong together
Identification
• At least on the
last page, bottom
right
• Course,
assignment
number, year
• Name and
student number
Page order
• Read from first to
last page
• Attachments after
other text
• NOT 1:st, 2:d ,
next to last, 3:d
page
• → Leave next to
last page empty!
Last page
• Empty except for
identification
• Room for the
assistant’s notes
Write on computer
• If the teaching assistant allows or requests
– Send your answer through e-mail
or
– Print the answer and insert into a folded A3 as
other assignments
– Same rules of style
Attachments
• Numbered attachments
– Corrections (S2, S3, ...)
– Computer printouts
– Program codes
– Excel or Matlab graphs
• Figure titles and explanations on the
attachments
Explain
• Report how you
have solved the
problem
• Noone should have
to guess the
meaning
• Quicker reading
• Explaining text
• Explain variable
symbols
Margins
• Better looking
with some
space
• Room for notes
• Easier to read
Structure
• Better looking
• Room for notes
• Easier to read
• Separation of
steps
• Structure of the
text
• Intermediate
headings
References
• No ”magic numbers”
• Explanation and reference
– cp = 4,181 kJ/kgK (specific heat capacity of
water at 20 ºC, Perry’s Chemical Engineer’s
Handbook)
– Equation (4.2-1) in Coulson&Richardson vol 6
– Table 2, page 10 in ...
– Figure 2 in Attachment 1
Sources
• The same source can be found again!
• Author, title, publisher, year, page/pages

Westerlund, T., Anläggnings- och apparatteknik,


Åbo Akademi, 2001, s. 56
Figures
• A well made
picture says more
than a thousand
words
• Flow diagrams
• Stream notation
• Given data
• Names for units
Graphs
• Variable names and 5

notation 4.5

(MW)
4

1,
3.5

• Unit on axIs

Överförd värmeström, Q
3

2.5
2

• Figure number and 1.5


1

caption below 0.5


0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
temperaturskillnad, ∆ T (K)

Figur 2: Överförd värmeström i fjärrvärmeväxlare 1 som


funktion av temperaturskillnaden mellan inkommande
och utgående vattenström.
Tables
• Table number
and caption
above
• Column and row
titles
• Units on variables
Units
• Must be given!!
• Check that the
dimensions are right
• Unit conversions
• Prefix (MW, km, mg)
• In text
The production during
a year in 100 tonnes
= Production is 100
tonnes/year
Equations
• Variables with slanted
Q& = m& ⋅ cp (T2 − T1 )
font (italics)

• Units and numbers m& = 1000 kgh


with straight font

• Functions with sin 2 α + cos 2 α = 1


straight font dQ &
≡Q
dt
Number of significant digits
• All digits in
calculation
• All digits in
solution
• Is the answer
reasonable?
• Round the answer
– Precision of given
data
Final copy
• Noone wants to read the rough copy
• Noone understands the rough copy after a
week
• Mistakes are found during writing of final
copy
• Structuring
• Own understanding
• Terminology

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