Guidelines for Electronic Submission

Assignments for this class must be submitted electronically. Since we don't meet face-to-face every week, email attachments simplify the exchange of information between instructor and student. Also, because I have terrible handwriting, you can more easily read my typed comments interspersed in your electronic document than handwritten comments on hardcopy.

Please follow these guidelines in preparing and sending email attachments:

1. You can use any major word processor, as I have translators for handling documents in formats different from Microsoft Word (what I use). If you have no particular preference, please use Microsoft Word, as I can then utilize the revision tracking feature to highlight mycomments.
2. Please name the document as follows: [your last name up to eight letters].doc For example, if I sent you a document using these guidelines, I would name the document Dede.doc
   (Otherwise, I get lots of files named paper.doc and have to re-label to keep them separate.)
3. Please do not compress the document (e.g., don't use Stuffit or a similar application). The best way to send documents is binhexed; an email application like Eudora will do this automatically.
4. If the document is more than 1 Megabyte in size after binhexing, please do not send it to me in that form. Instead, please reformat the document so that the graphics (which are what makes the size so large) are at the end. (For example, the text might say, "place figure one here," and then figure one itself is put at the end of the document.) Then send me the electronic version up to (but not including) the graphics, and fax the graphics to me in hardcopy at (617) 495-9268 - please use a cover page addressed to me.

Also, if you send an email message without an attachment, please use your name in the subject heading and make the content of the heading descriptive of the message (e.g., Smith proposed assignment 2).

Thanks!