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Attendance. Students are expected to attend each class. The official
means of communication for this course will be in-class announcements, though
every effort will be made to ensure that the course Web page is up to date.
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Homework submissions. Homework assignments are due as indicated on the
homework and the Web page. Handwritten homework is fine (unless otherwise
specified), but it must be legible. Late homeworks will be accepted at
the sole discretion of the teachning assistant(s), but in no case after a
solution set has been handed out or discussed in class. Late homeworks may
receive only partial credit, also at the sole discretion of the teachning
assistant(s).
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Rescheduling exams. Exams may be taken other than at the scheduled time,
but only under exceptional circumstances and then only if approved by the
instructor well in advance of the exam. It is your responsibility to
contact the instructor and justify your cause. Makeup exams will rarely be the
same as the original exam and will usually be all or partly oral.
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Grading policy. Although there are no points for neatness it does tend
to affect grades indirectly. Homework and exam answers should be clearly
organized and not needlessly wordy. An illegible homework or exam will be given
a grade of zero.
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Honesty. Your work must be your own. For anything other than exams, you
are welcome to discuss general issues with other students, but the answer, the
writing, and the final result that you hand in must be your own effort.
Discussing or sharing answers to specific problems is considered dishonest. If
you have questions about what is honest, please ask! One suggestion is never to
write down anything while you're talking with someone about classwork since
that will require you to come up with the result again on your own later. You
are strongly encouraged to cite your sources if you received extraordinary help
from any person or text (including the Web).
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Plagiarism. Plagiarism is a type of cheating and will not be tolerated
in this class. For all material that you hand in, you must appropriate indicate
when you are using work of others. If you use verbatim or only slightly altered
text, you must clearly indicate (quotation marks, indented text,etc.) that you
are quoting another source and what that source is. If you refer to work done
by others, even if you do not quote it, you should include a reference to the
original source. It does not matter if that work was published or not: if it is
work other than your own, you are obligated to make it clear that you are using
that person's work.
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Office hours. The instructor will normally be available in his office
during posted office hours. Outside of those hours, or times arranged on an
appointment basis, he cannot be assumed to be available for course-related
matters, even if in his office.
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