The following describes what you are supposed to do at each stage of the schedule. See Appendix A for a summary of the deadlines for each component, including the due dates for each document and dates for seminars. All written documents, except program code and other exceptions, should be prepared using a word processing system that produces portable Postscript output. One option is to use LaTeX on the Departmental Unix systems. For students not familiar with LaTeX a short introductory tutorial will be conducted at the start of the course (see Section 2).
When you submit a document it will be marked by your supervisor(s) and another staff member (called your reader). This results in two marks that are then averaged to determine your final mark for the document. In cases where there is a substantial difference between the supervisor and reader marks, another reader may be asked to read the document and assess it to resolve the difference.