Anyone who breaks formatting should be penalised in the normal way through adjustment of marks.
Below are a number of reasons why this new template system should be dropped for academic year 2015:
- The template is by no means fit for purpose, it is difficult to use, buggy and appallingly presented.
- Titles are inappropriate for some projects.
- Adding figures is difficult and often malfunctions.
- 4th Year master students are more than capable of formatting our own documents.
- The mark scheme still gives marks for formatting, which is no longer valid, the overall make distribution needs to be changed if the template is used.
- The Template has been introduced far to late into the project, giving us little time to adapt to the format and penalising those who started writing early. There is also very short time to fix bugs in the template.
- This format makes the reports less likely to be shared or published by students due to the poor format.
- Students are unlikely to showcase their work to employers or institutions due to its poor appearance.
- The format unfairly penalises those who use other popular and effective software such as LaTeX, the standard for technical report writing.
- Formatting skills are a critical part of an Engineers ability to succeed, many examples of poor formatting and poor communication in the real world have led to engineering failure.
What could be used instead:
- A list of criteria for formatting
- A strict penalties for breaking the formatting
- An example document, not a template
It is possible, if executed properly and in plenty of time the template could be used in the future.
Updates
March 22, 2015
I have been hearing from many of you about the technical glitches you face when trying to force your work into this faulty template. Please email the department head today to insist that we return to a standard formatting criteria list instead. We need to keep pressure on the faculty until they agree to remove these barriers to our professional output.
March 22, 2015
The momentum behind this petition proves we are united in rejecting this broken template. Post a link to this page on the course Facebook group right now so our classmates see they are not alone.
4 Comments
The template is literally breaking my figures every time I try to move them. Why are we being forced to use this half-baked thing when we have deadlines in a week?
Fourth Year students should be allowed to format their work in whatever way they think is necessary to portray their research. The template limits this!
This template is unsuitable for my project.
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Anyone who breaks formatting should be penalised in the normal way through adjustment of marks.
Below are a number of reasons why this new template system should be dropped for academic year 2015:
- The template is by no means fit for purpose, it is difficult to use, buggy and appallingly presented.
- Titles are inappropriate for some projects.
- Adding figures is difficult and often malfunctions.
- 4th Year master students are more than capable of formatting our own documents.
- The mark scheme still gives marks for formatting, which is no longer valid, the overall make distribution needs to be changed if the template is used.
- The Template has been introduced far to late into the project, giving us little time to adapt to the format and penalising those who started writing early. There is also very short time to fix bugs in the template.
- This format makes the reports less likely to be shared or published by students due to the poor format.
- Students are unlikely to showcase their work to employers or institutions due to its poor appearance.
- The format unfairly penalises those who use other popular and effective software such as LaTeX, the standard for technical report writing.
- Formatting skills are a critical part of an Engineers ability to succeed, many examples of poor formatting and poor communication in the real world have led to engineering failure.
What could be used instead:
- A list of criteria for formatting
- A strict penalties for breaking the formatting
- An example document, not a template
It is possible, if executed properly and in plenty of time the template could be used in the future.
Updates
March 22, 2015
I have been hearing from many of you about the technical glitches you face when trying to force your work into this faulty template. Please email the department head today to insist that we return to a standard formatting criteria list instead. We need to keep pressure on the faculty until they agree to remove these barriers to our professional output.
March 22, 2015
The momentum behind this petition proves we are united in rejecting this broken template. Post a link to this page on the course Facebook group right now so our classmates see they are not alone.
4 Comments
This makes our reports look like absolute trash. I worked way too hard on this to turn in something that looks this unprofessional.
The template is literally breaking my figures every time I try to move them. Why are we being forced to use this half-baked thing when we have deadlines in a week?
Fourth Year students should be allowed to format their work in whatever way they think is necessary to portray their research. The template limits this!
This template is unsuitable for my project.
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This makes our reports look like absolute trash. I worked way too hard on this to turn in something that looks this unprofessional.