FORMATTING AND PRESENTATION: IS IT A NECESSITY OR WASTAGE OF TIME???

Just imagine you are ready to go for a date with someone for the first time! You are so excited about the meeting… Eventually you meet the person but Oh My God!!! The appearance of the person is not at all appreciable. The entire presentation is not acceptable.

This is exactly the same in case of your coursework writing.

1) FIRST IMPRESSION IS THE LAST IMPRESSION: Formatting and Presentation impresses the Supervisor at the very first go! You will be happy to know that the first impression remains till the end. The Supervisor definitely has a positive approach while checking your assignment if it satisfies the Formatting and Presentation criteria.

2) GOOD PACKAGING: Imagine yourself going for shopping. Will you prefer to buy a product which is properly packaged, sealed and specifically labelled, thereby meeting the Labelling Regulations Act or opt any random product, which is not attractive?

It is exactly the same case here! Formatting and Presentation is like packaging of your assignment. It acts as the wrapper of the gift box! It helps in promoting your assignment in the eyes of the Supervisor. It heightens your work at a BETTER Level!!!

3) LOOKS NEAT AND TIDY: If the assignment looks neat and tidy, there are chances that the Supervisor feels interested to go through it carefully, thereby reading between the lines. The appearance has to be neat and clear.

4) ATTRACTIVE YET PROFESSIONAL: In order to hold the attention of your Supervisors for a long period so that they go in-depth of your assignment. You need to make your assignment attractive by adding tabular, statistical, figurative and graphical representations. Moreover, with the help of few highlighted areas (like bold, italics and underlined), you can bring the main points into the notice of the Supervisors.

However, REMEMBER this is an academic piece of writing!

•  So it has to be professional and formal.
• DO NOT use too catchy or bombastic words as headings or sub headings
• DO NOT highlight too many words as Bold, Italics and Underlined

5) COHERENT STRUCTURE: For an appropriate structure the basic criteria is to follow the assignment questions and build a coherent framework. Once you are done, believe 50% of your head ache is cured! Now, you surely know, where to proceed and how to proceed???

6) SCOPE TO GAIN MORE MARKS: You have often wondered how it is that you friend has got those few extra marks… You scratch your head to think!!! Formatting and Presentation of an assignment stand out as a significant aspect for obtaining HIGHER GRADES!

So next time, when you have to do an assignment, make sure never to neglect the formatting and presentation of the work. REMEMBER professors do allot marks for all sorts of assignments!!!