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Below are the guidelines in constructing your respective essays:

Computerize your work. Provide ample margin, say 1" on each side of a short-size, good-quality bond paper. In the headings, please don't forget to write your names, your major course-year level, the subject (section), and group number; also, and importantly, the corresponding title of the activity assigned to you.
For example:

for students in PHY10L Uzumaki, Naruto N. B.S. Ninja-4 PHY10L(A6): Group 1A Final Exam

for students in PHY12L Uchiha, Sasuke M. B.S. Shinobi-4 PHY12L(A6): Group 1A Final Exam Bonus

You may use whatever font you like as long as it is appropriate for technical documents (e.g. Times New Roman) but please DON'T use ARIAL! Arial is really a misfit font style for technical documents! Hate it! hehehehe You may write up to eight (8) paragraphs with the following breakdown: An introductory paragraph - this may address the following: What is the course all about? What are the general ideas in this particular subject? For instance, in 10L, is about the topics about kinematics, definition of force, Newton's laws, friction, etc. What were your expectations from this subject? Please don't limit to the above suggestions. Then you can now start with the main body of the document in the succeeding paragraphs.

The main Body (one paragraph per experiment) - should, at least, be able to answer the following questions in each paragraph:

What is this experiment all about? You can start the paragraph by writing: Experiment 1 (Resolution of Forces) is about... Cite the objectives of the experiment?

You may then proceed with presenting your results, not the numerical ones, but the trends or observations; i.e. "in Experiment 1, the magnitude of the resultant force is equal to the equilibrant but is oppositely directed," things like that, rather than "in this experiment, we obtained 0.00001% percent difference." Give your thoughts about the experiment before giving conclusive statements. Also, mention your contribution both in performing the experiment and in making the lab report. You may then proceed with citing possible cases by which this particular experiment may be useful in the field of engineering, in general, and in your field of study in particular. Take note: One paragraph per Experiment!

A concluding paragraph - this may consist of the following:

How did you find this subject? How did you find the teaching of this subject? What were your expectations from the instructor of this subject? (yeah that's me! You may evaluate me honestly and don't try to flatter!) Please take note that your grade will not be affected whether you would give either positive or negative comments about me.

One more thing, about your long exam (The Killer Very Long Exam! ): Perhaps most of you may find the exam overly challenging, but that was with the intention of trying to give you a taste of an exam that promotes critical thinking rather than mere recall of problems which you may have already encountered and solved. My intention had only been to help you grow, instilling in your minds the importance of "thinking-before-solving", rather than pulling you down (as I have always been jokingly coining the term "GG"-force to the event of pulling your grades down). In line with your long exam, you are welcome to give comments about it; just cite your thoughts. And one last thing, make your essay a little more convincing! The bottom line is, you may convince me on why you think you deserve to pass not because you are on "Warning Status", or any other reason, but based on your own performance in the class; tell me why I should let you pass! That is, or course, granted that you reached the 65% border-line; that means, whether your argument is convincing or not, but you fall behind the border-line, then you are in hell already! hahahaha All those in the Purgatory region (i.e. 65-69.99%) can still be saved depending on the number of slots left!

Lastly, of course, print out your work and staple them (I'd be expecting only about 3-4 pages) so no need to place in a folder nor make a cover page; just staple on the upper-left corner (a little on top of your name). Submission dates: All in sections in 10L: Absolute deadline is March 11, 2013 at 11:59:59 in the MORNING. Please submit per group (not subgroup). Thanks! For 12L(A6): March 19, 2013 Note: This is not a deadline but the only submission date; that means you are not allowed to submit early on since we are still going to have our Killer VLE on March 16, 2013. Thus, you can only submit on the finals week but not before nor after March 19! Please submit per group to Jaspreet. Thanks!

Best regards, R.M. Cabrera

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