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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.
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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.
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Remove irrelevant text. Many submissions had text leftover from the original template; this is now a distraction.
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Use the template originally provided, or a near equivalent. Don’t change formatting of margins, the type point, statement of authorship, etc.
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Attend to mechanics: spelling, capitalization, grammar, etc.
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Document all external sources, including data sets, software and sources of algorithmic ideas.
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Be careful of common errors in writing, like unnecessarily saying the same thing more than once. We will discuss this more in class.
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Be careful about overmuch etiological narrative, describing your progress and failures. We will also give this further attention in class.