• GRP Meeting Minutes
  • Student:
  • Supervisors:
  • Aim:
  • Agenda:
  • Discussion:
  • Action Points
  • Next Meeting: No next meeting

GRP Meeting Minutes

Student:

Zhefeng ZHOU, Yangyu GAO, Muyi JIANG, Jiaying SUN, Kan LIU, Zhe REN

Supervisors:

Heshan DU

Aim:

To discuss the interim report

Agenda:

1. Discuss and improve the first version of interim report

Discussion:

1. Common academic writing mistakes
   • We should avoid using emotional word like “excellent” and “beautiful”.
   • We should avoid using abbreviation like “can’t”, “it`s” and “don´t”.
   • We should avoid using personal pronoun like “you”, using “a” or “the” instead.
2. Common mistakes in formating
   • We should use footnodes to provide a link for pictures.
   • We should use citation at the last of sentence and place a space before citation.
   • We should not use nouns “user”, “people” and “student” to indicate one kind of person. Choose one to use.
   • We should not use nouns “application”, “software” and “system” to indicate the project. Choose one to use.
3. The detail of content that needs to change
   • The detail is described in the paper version of interim report which Heshan gave to us after she commented on it .

Action Points

1. Improve the interim report
2. Finish and hand in the interim report before December 16th

Next Meeting: No next meeting