Documentation

When discussing a problem or a situation or reporting an experiment without using a questionnaire be sure you include everything the instructor and the general reader needs to evaluate your analysis and your results.

For experiments include all the raw data, and show how the data was converted into useful information and analyzed to reach your conclusions.

• For experiments you will typically have between four and ten 'data points', though in some cases you will have considerably more, and you will probably have to do one or more sets of calculations on these data.  You don't have to show and explain every individual calculation, but you need to show at least one example of every type of calculation you made, and explain the meaning and reason for each type of calculation.

Anything you write should be readable by your fellow students:

• When you write, you are not writing for the instructor but for the general reader--someone who knows about as much as you do, except for the situation you are explaining. 
• Give that person what he or she needs to understand what you are doing and what you are thinking.

On tests, you will be required to completely document all your work. 

• Tests are not timed, so you should set aside whatever time it will take to document your work. 
• Undocumented work is worthless and will not be given credit.
• Documentation includes all your thinking and reasoning on the problem and complete justification for everything you do.