Writing clearly helps promote clear thinking, so we will focus some of our attention on learning to write more clearly. 

An overall guideline is to write solutions in a form that you could understand if you looked back at the assignment a year after completing the course (try this with previous work!) or in a form that is understandable to another student who is not in the course with you.

Guidelines for each assignment include guidelines for all previous assignments. 

These guidelines are slightly edited forms of those developed by Dr. Tracy Payne. 

Abbreviations are as follows:

(M)	Mechanics
(P)	Presentation
(O)	Organization
(L)	Logic
(E)	Enhancement

Assignment 1

(P)	Include carefully drawn, precise pictures on copied grids or graph paper.  This will help make it easier both for you to see patterns and answer the questions about the shapes, and for me to understand your work.

 
Assignment 2

(P)	Leave some room between solutions.  This will make your work easier to read and understand and will allow me to provide comments close to the relevant portions of your work.
(M)	Write complete, clear, concise English sentences.

 
Assignment 3

(O)

Either restate the task or problem before you give your solution, or write your solution so that it is clear what was asked.  For example, instead of just "Yes", write "Yes, a shape consisting of two triangles, one pointing up and one pointing down, is a basic unit for the triangle grid because...".

 
Assignment 7