Dear GED 203 Students, Kindly be informed that assignment topic for spring semester is "Departmental Self Evaluation". You can evaluate and department, job or career according to the following details. Assignment should be uploaded to the portal after being checked at "Turnitin" system. Assignment can be individual or group. Assignment group size is max. 5 students. Each student should upload his/her paper to his/her portal. Assignment size from 5 - 10 pages in essay form. Details: Abstract Introduction about your chosen department Positive and negative sides Advantages and disadvantages Results Recommendations General style Specific editorial requirements for submission of a manuscript will always supersede instructions in these general guidelines. To make a paper readable Print or type using a 12 point standard font, such as Times, Geneva, Bookman, Helvetica, etc. Text should be double spaced on 8 1/2" x 11" paper with 1 inch margins, single sided Number pages consecutively Start each new section on a new page Adhere to recommended page limits Mistakes to avoid Placing a heading at the bottom of a page with the following text on the next page (insert a page break!) Dividing a table or figure - confine each figure/table to a single page Submitting a paper with pages out of order In all sections of your paper Use normal prose including articles ("a", "the," etc.) Stay focused on the research topic of the paper Use paragraphs to separate each important point (except for the abstract) Indent the first line of each paragraph Present your points in logical order Use present tense to report well accepted facts - for example, 'the grass is green' Use past tense to describe specific results - for example, 'When weed killer was applied, the grass was brown' Avoid informal wording, don't address the reader directly, and don't use jargon, slang terms, or superlatives Avoid use of superfluous pictures - include only those figures necessary to presenting results Title Page Select an informative title as illustrated in the examples in your writing portfolio example package. Include the name(s) and address(es) of all authors, and date submitted. "Biology lab #1" would not be an informative title, for example. Abstract The summary should be two hundred words or less. See the examples in the writing portfolio package.