Homework Rules and Assignments

MAA 4211 — Advanced Calculus I
Section 16G0, Fall 2013

Last update made by D. Groisser Dec 4 18:47 EST 2013

Homework Rules

Homework will be collected at the beginning of the period on the
announced hand-in day, and must be completed and stapled together
before the start of the class period.

Even when homework is well-written, reading and grading it is very
time-consuming and physically difficult for your instructor. In order
that this process note be more burdensome than it intrinsically needs to be:

  • The homework you hand in must be neat, and must either be typed
    or written in pen (not pencil!).     Please do not turn in homework that
    is messy or that has anything that’s been erased and written over (or
    written over without erasing), making it harder to read. Anything that is
    difficult for me to read will be returned to you ungraded.
  • Work everything out for yourself on scrap paper first. Carefully rewrite
    what you’re handing on clean sheets of 8.5″ x 11″ paper, leaving enough
    space for me to write comments.
  • Staple the sheets together in the upper left-hand corner. Any other means
    of attachment makes more work for me. The staple should be close enough to the
    corner that when I turn pages, nothing that you’ve written is obscured. Also, don’t
    use paper that’s been ripped out of a spiral-bound notebook; it will make a mess on
    my floor.
  • Write in complete, unambiguous, grammatically correct, and correctly
    punctuated sentences,     just as you would find in your textbook.
  • Warn me about partial proofs. If a problem is of the form “Prove this” and you’ve
    been unable to produce a complete proof, but want to show me how far you got, tell me
    at the very start of the problem that your proof is not complete (before you start writing
    any part of your attempted proof)    . Do not just start writing a proof, and at some point
    say “This is as far as I got.” Otherwise, when I start reading I will assume that you think
    you’ve written a complete and correct proof, and spend too long thinking about, and writing
    comments on, false statements and approaches or steps that were doomed to go nowhere.

Academic honesty. On all work submitted for credit by students at the University of Florida,
the following pledge is implied:

“On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in
doing this assignment.”

For purposes of preparing your hand-in homework, no aid that involves anything but your
own brain, your textbook, your notes, and any handouts from me, is authorized. The
“no aid” restriction doesn’t apply until I have announced the hand-in date for a given problem.
Up until that announcement, you’re allowed to work with each other, look at other textbooks,
ask me for help, etc.

But once the hand-in date for a homework problem is announced, you are on your own.
Remember that you are supposed to do ALL assigned problems. It is very unwise to procrastinate,
waiting to see which problems I’m going to require you to hand in before deciding which problems
to work on.

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