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Formatting Instructions

All documents (the summaries and the detailed reports) must meet the following formatting and other requirements.

• 1 inch margins on all sides. Please check the margins in the hardcopy manually before submission.
• Letter size paper (8.5 inches by 11 inches). In particular, do not set the paper size to A4.
• 12 point Times New Roman font. The title should be 14 point bold-face Times New Roman font.
• Single spacing.
• The title should be centered. It should be followed by an empty line followed by your name, which should also be centered. All other text should be fully justified on the left and right margins.
• You should proof-read your paper to ensure that there are no typographical errors. You report will be considered unsatisfactory if there are many typographical errors. In fact, your report will be considered unsatisfactory even if there is one spelling error that can be caught by a spell checker. Please run a spell check on your document finally, before turning it in. You may also wish to use MS Word, and correct any error pointed out by the grammer checker.
• Do not waste space using excessive empty spaces.
  • For example, do not use excessive indentation. For example, bulleted lists are usually indented. It is ok to use bulleted lists occassionally in the detailed report. However, only a few lines should occur in such lists.
  • Note that the one inch margin applies to the text. If you give a bottom margin of one inch for the page number, and the text is higher than one inch from the bottom, then I will consider the format as incorrect.
  • Your writing should have technical substance to it. Avoid wasting space on other things. For example, do not call some research as "interesting". This does not have any technical substance to it. Do not include biographical information about a professor, such as the university from which the professor graduated, etc.

Summaries

• The title shouldy be Summary of the talk by Prof. XYZ, where XYZ should be replaced by the name of the professor.
• There should be no bulleted lists in a summary.
• You should have at least 25 lines of text (excluding the title and your name).
• Example of formatting and other instructions.

Detailed Reports

• The title shouldy be Detailed Report on the Research of by Prof. XYZ, where XYZ should be replaced by the name of the professor.
• Your name should be followed by a blank line, followed by an abstract.
• The abstract should be followed by several sections, including at least those given in the example mentioned below. The last lection must be References.
• Section titles must be in 12 point font. The should be preceded and followed by a blank line. Sections must be numbered in Arabic numerals. The references section should not be numbered.
• References must by cited in the main text using the reference number in square brackets, such as [2].
• Your writing should be formal, as used in normal technical writing. Please read papers in some good journals, such as the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, to get an idea of how to write.
• Example of formatting and other instructions.

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Last modified: 22 Aug 2008