In the next progress report, in addition to significant progress, I hope to see the following
deficiencies corrected. If you have none, don't worry about it, but most progress reports
exhibited one or more of them.

1. A full draft of the abstract. I know that there is a lot of provisional thinking about what
you may be able to accomplish, but by now, you should be able to articulate a goal well
enough to come up with a proper abstract.

2. Remove irrelevant text. Many submissions had text leftover from the original template;
this is now a distraction.

3. Use the template originally provided, or a near equivalent. Don’t change formatting of
margins, the type point, statement of authorship, etc.

4. Attend to mechanics: spelling, capitalization, grammar, etc.

5. Document all external sources, including data sets, software and sources of algorithmic
ideas.

6. Be careful of common errors in writing, like unnecessarily saying the same thing more
than once. We will discuss this more in class.

7. Be careful about overmuch etiological narrative, describing your progress and
failures. We will also give this further attention in class.
