How many of you go for
dating with a clumsy dress, smelly shoes and uncombed hair? Especially girls,
how much time do you take to get ready before going for a party or movie? No
need to hide behind your computer screen. I am well aware of it. Now you tell
me, do you like a person who is not well maintained and not looking hygienic?
Let him/her be the Mr Einstein or Ms Madam Curie. This is how the human mind
works. It first judges by looks then by contents. Same thing goes with your
assignment. Formatting and presentation are like dressing up and make up for
your assignment.
Suppose, it is your
birthday, and your friend gifts you a wonderful showpiece, but packed with most
shabby looking wrapper, do you like it? I think; I can make you understand the
importance of formatting and presentation for your assignment. Though it does
not convey the depth of your knowledge but it surely carries the first
impression of your assignment.
We all are very much
particular about our dressings and looks but we often ignore the looks of our
assignment. Moreover, you take special care in wrapping the gifts for your
loved one but while presenting your assignment, you adopt a casual attitude
which is detrimental for your assignment as well as grades. The more you please
your teacher by formatting and presentation, the more he/she will please you in
giving marks.
Today I am going to
tell you few tricks regarding formatting and presentation which will help you
to clear the doubts and also to fetch more marks without much effort. Each and
every university has its different sets of formatting and presentation
techniques but the basic things are same for all. Moreover, formatting and
presentation is a vast area which includes many aspects like title page
orientation, formatting, layout, font style, font size, page margins, page
indentation, line spacing and page alignment. These are not only important in
context to the looks of the assignment but also carry marks.
Before starting your
assignment follow the assignment guidelines carefully. You will get much
information regarding the formatting and the presentation of your assignments
from the assignment question paper. If the instructions are not clear for you,
then don’t hesitate to contact your respective teacher or professor. I will
suggest you email them instead of making a phone call in order to keep a
written record of what they inform.
FEW TIPS:
1) For the softcopy
submission you need .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, zip, ppt, or pptx format instead
of CAD files, Visio (.vsd), PDF s (.pdf) or rtf files if not mentioned
otherwise in your assignment question.
2) While using your
fonts pay attention to the legibility to try to use Arial, Times New Roman,
Calibri, Tahoma or Verdana font size with 11 or 12 font size. To be specific
Times New Roman and Arial are the standardised ones.
3) You must use black ink
against a white background.
4) The spacing in
between two lines must be 1.5 and there should be 10pt spacing after each
paragraph. Make sure you maintain these throughout your assignment.
5) Take
extra care while preparing your cover page it should be as per the university
or the academic institution guideline.
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