For reading assignments outside of the text (i.e. technical papers), you must prepare comments or two questions with answers, based on the paper. If there is more than one paper assigned for a specific day, then prepare one comment or question/answer from each of the papers. Each comment or question and answer should be about a half page in length. Suitable questions are those that you or someone reading the paper for the first time might have to stop and study, look elsewhere or reread to find an answer. Suitable comments include comparison and/or evaluation of the work in comparison with other work reported either in the textbook or in other papers. Also, see "How to Read an Engineering Research Paper" by Bill Griswold (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/wgg/CSE210/howtoread.html) for additional ideas. The questions or comments will be graded (each question or comment) on the following scale (0:not received, 1:marginal, 2:what was expected, 3:outstanding). You must accumulate an average of 1.5 points per question or comment to pass this class REGARDLESS of other evaluation criterion. In general, to receive a score greater than 2 you will have to incorporate material from sources other than the current reading assignment (e.g. from the textbook or from papers read at other times during the quarter).

If you paraphrase a source other than the one you are writing about then you must indicate this with a citation footnote. If you quote any source, including the one you are writing about, you must use quotation marks and include a citation footnote. Failure to follow these requirements will be considered a serious breach of academic integrity ( http://oasas.ucsc.edu/avcue/integrity ).