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Assignment and Referencing Guide

This guide provides essential tips for writing assignments on polymers, emphasizing the importance of planning, content quality, and editing. It outlines referencing requirements, including citation formats and the necessity of avoiding plagiarism. The document also includes presentation guidelines and highlights the serious consequences of academic dishonesty.

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Assignment and Referencing Guide

This guide provides essential tips for writing assignments on polymers, emphasizing the importance of planning, content quality, and editing. It outlines referencing requirements, including citation formats and the necessity of avoiding plagiarism. The document also includes presentation guidelines and highlights the serious consequences of academic dishonesty.

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Assignment and Referencing Guide

POLYMERS

The following guide aims to give you helpful tips on how to write a good assignment.
Follow the referencing tips and plagiarism policy cited in this document.

1) Plan and Structure Your Assignment

Your experience of assignment writing will be faster and much less frustrating if you
first spend time planning what you want to say. This is the essence of the creative
writing process. Let your plan be guided by the requirements of the assignment.
a) Often a natural structure for the assignment becomes evident as you start to
write down your ideas for each of the assignment criteria/question.
b) Ensure the structure is clear and logical.
c) It is important that you think through your arguments and ensure a logical flow
of the text before you begin writing your first draft.

2) Check Content Quality

Ensure you have addressed all aspects of the question. See the taxonomy of educational
objectives for guidelines on what is required when instructors ask you to ‘describe,
‘apply’, ‘propose’ and ‘explain.

a) Arguments and key points should be supported by examples and evidence


(references) from literature.
b) Have you done sufficient research and/or analysis to address the key
issues/questions in depth?
c) Have you recognized alternative perspectives or interpretations and identified
assumptions?
d) Have you shown evidence of independent, critical thought and original work?

3) Edit Your Work

Once you have a complete rough draft and have checked the content quality, it is time to
start editing. At this point you should be concentrating on the writing process rather
than the content. The assignment is your attempt to communicate your ideas to the
reader. The better the communication, the easier it will be for the reader to understand
your points and hence award marks. Look for how you can improve communication.

a) Always define abbreviations the first time you use them. Then you can simply
use the abbreviation through the rest of the assignment.
b) Have you used a simple and coherent style of writing?
c) Is your writing focused, relevant, and clear?
d) Do your arguments flow logically?
e) Are there connections and the logical flow between paragraphs?
f) Avoid starting sentences with ‘And’ or ‘But’.
g) Ensure to correct punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
h) You will typically have a strict word/page limit, so it is important to be succinct.
Are there words or ideas that are redundant or lack relevance?

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4) Referencing

Citation in Text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list
(and vice versa).

Web References

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last
accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a
source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately
(e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired or can be included in
the reference list.

Reference Style

The author of assignment carries the full responsibility for the accuracy of their
references. The format of references must be uniform and consistent with the following
design. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references
following the text of the manuscript. In the text refer to references by a number in
square brackets (e.g., Kim and Michler [1]), and full reference should be given in a
numerical list at the end of the assignment in the following form:

Referencing a Journal Paper

1. Kim GM, Michler GH. Polymer 1998; 39:5689-5697.

Referencing a Book

2. Jenkins AD, Loening KL. Nomenclature. In: Allen G, Bevington JC, Booth C, Price
C, editors. Comprehensive polymer science, vol. 1. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989. pp.
13-54.
3. Van Krevelen DW. Properties of polymers, 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1990
(chapter 6).

5) Presentation Guidelines

 Typed, 12 font, 1.15 spaced and numbered pages.


 Complete the Assignment with a Cover Sheet at the beginning of your assignment.
Cover sheet will not be counted towards assignment page limit.
Start early as no extensions will be granted.

Plagiarism

It is IST’s policy that attention be drawn to the nature and serious consequence of
cheating and plagiarism. Following are classified as plagiarism:
a) The submission of an answer that is substantially similar to an answer submitted
by another student.
b) The submission of an answer that is not substantially the student’s own work
(or, in the case of joint work, not substantially undertaken by the individuals
named as having undertaken the joint work).

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c) The submission of an answer that contains substantial quotations from other
works, such as books or journals, without appropriate reference to the source.
The consequences of plagiarism are serious. Any student who (i) copies or otherwise
uses the work of another person, or (ii) allows another person to copy or otherwise use
his or her answer when both are completing the same or similar assessment, will either
lose credit for that assessment, the subject, or be disciplined in some way.

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