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Work to be submitted or done in class: During the semester students will have to prepare the following (more details on link above):
(I) 6 homework assignments, some of them to be completed during online weeks. Graded: Pass/Fail, worth 10% of final grade up to 50% total. One assignment can be dropped.
(II) 3 writing assignments:
Short Essay, worth 20% of final grade.
Survey design for Bio, worth 10% of final grade; and
Short Bio, worth 10% of final grade.
(III) Participation in class during in-person lectures (grading and discussing other student's assignments), worth 10% of final grade.
LaTeX
The assignments in this course will be written in LaTeX, for which help can be found in the links above. It is each student's responsibility to work out how to use TeX on a computer of their choosing.
Writing Center
The English Department runs a writing center, where you can get help with all aspects of writing: http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/writing/
(You can make appointments, which is probably a good idea).
Writing Advice
A great summary of some of the main things to look out for when writing about mathematics and writing mathematics appears in the following paper:
"Writing a Math Phase Two Paper" by Steven Kleiman
In particular, when grading your writing, we'll be paying special attention to those common issues described in Section 4 and Section 5 of that paper.
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