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In general, the word "assignment" means anything that is assigned as work. Teachers assign homework, therefore anything a teacher tells you to do is an assignment, so the definition of "homework" you found is correct.

However, when a teacher says, "I'm giving you an assignment", "assignment", they are using classroom jargon that refers to a larger piece of work, closer to the scale of a "project" than of a simple piece of homework.

As a Brit who grew up in London, we didn't really use the word "assignment" for schoolwork at all - but I'd expect it to refer to any work we were given without implications of size or where it was to be done.

A larger piece of work might be a "project" - likely to be done over a longer period of time with some work in class and some at home and usually involving ending up with some kind of polished output (which may be a poster, or a presentation, or a longer piece of writing, or a physical item, or something else).

"Assignments" can be large or small. You can be assigned a long complex task to complete at home over several weeks. Or you can be assigned several very short tasks (perhaps as short as "solve this equation") and one piece of homework can consist of several assignments.

Individual schools will have their own culture. I've worked at schools in which there was no homework, but there was "prep" or "study". I know of a school, that has "IRCP" (independent research consolidation and preparation).

I agree with @JamesK in that different schools have their own culture. I'm American (from NYC), and where I went to school, an "assignment" was work given as a punishment, whereas "homework" is regular small/medium sized work that you did at home. A larger piece of assigned work, of which there were only one/a few per semester, would be called a "project."

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I have recently returned to grad school, and am attempting to use

mathematica as my "word processor" for my math-related homework. There are

a few annoying things that keep happening to my attempts at this, and I

thought I'd describe them here in hopes that someone would have some better

suggestions.For an example of what I've been doing, see

rsharris/spamlog/ExampleHW.nbMy motivations are (a) it will give me a clean output that will be easier on

the grader's eyes, (b) it will make it easier for me to edit changes to

equations, etc., and (c) I can include mathematica-generated plots and

import drawings from other packages.I've been doing this with some success from the beginning of the fall

semester. I'm not incredibly sophistocated with mathematica, but have

managed to do this using only InputForm and StandardForm cells (i.e. I have

set the cells to DisplayAs one of those two forms, depending on whether the

cell contains running text or equations). This sort of works, but there are

many shortcomings:1) Mathematica likes to auto format things, so it is difficult for me to get

things to line up the way I want them to. This has made the inclusion of

mathematical symbology in my running text difficult. I think I have

discovered that displaying a cell as Text rather than InputForm is better,

but haven't tried it much yet.2) In many cases when I include a plot, or an imported drawing, when I print

out the notebook I get an unnecessary page feed before and/or after the

plot/drawing.3) Font sizes on the printout don't seem to correlate with font sizes on the

screen. The default size of 12 pt is fine to read on the screen, but is too

small on the printed page. Very surprisingly, it is not as large on paper

as wehen I use 12 pt fonts in other programs.4) Trying to set font sizes on things seems like a nightmare of hard to

comprehend results. E.g. slecting a cell and setting the font size many

times seems to have no effect whatsoever.5) ... others ...I've also looked at style sheets a little bit. Like I said, I'm not very

mathematica-sophistocated, and am trying to find a fairly quick solution

that I can implement without having to dig *too* deep (am willing to dig

some, but don't really have the time with my current class and teaching load

to spend a lot of time with this).It seems like what I'm after is the same sort of set up that someone writing

a paper for publicatiojn would need. Have looked for such examples, but

have not found any.Thanks for any help or suggestions,

Bob Harris

2. It may be that the page properties are such that there is not enough room

for the plot left on the current page (even though there IS enough room

according to your eye). Have a look at File Printing Settings Page

Setup...3 & 4. You have overridden the default fonts in your cells. If you want to

make global changes then it is best to edit the style sheet. This is done

via Format Edit Style Sheet ..., and select "Import Private Copy" to

ensure you don't edit the master copy.If you want to have a standard set up for writing a paper for publication

you could start with the "Article Classic" or "Article Modern" style sheet

(reached from the Format Style Sheet ... menu). Use Text cells as your

default. Embed inline maths using inline cells in the text cells. Use

Numbered Equation or Display Formula cells for equations, and convert these

cells to TraditionalForm using Cell Convert To Traditional Form in order

to get the maths to display in a nice format (i.e. rather like LaTeX would

produce, but in a different font). For multi-line equations you can lay

things out in a controlled way by inserting a GridBox in the equation (you

find this looking like an empty 2x2 matrix on the Basic Typesetting Palette

reached from the File Palettes ... menu), and you plug whatever you want

into the empty gridbox cells ... and I could go on and on ... I find

Mathematica can do everything I want in writing technical papers, but it's

just not documented in a way that helps you get started quickly!--

Steve Luttrell

West Malvern, UK"Bob Harris" wrote in message

news:bo7oud$aj1$1...@smc.vnet.net...

>Howdy,

>

>I have recently returned to grad school, and am attempting to use

>mathematica as my "word processor" for my math-related homework. There are

>a few annoying things that keep happening to my attempts at this, and I

>thought I'd describe them here in hopes that someone would have some better

>suggestions.

Hi -

I have found Mathematica to be so incompetent at basic typesetting,

and its behavior so bizarre and unpredicatble, that I would never use

it for what you are doing. I know how to set math in Mathematica (up to its

severe limitations), in Tex (non-wysiwyg), and in Word. It's not a

good route for publishing, but I think Word and Equation Editor are

the easiest and most reliable of the methods. I had a paper in the

March 03 Math Monthly, which I originally wrote in Word and translated

to Tex with the help of some automated software.

Keep in mind that not many people agree with me on this.

I had done this in (typesetting assignments) 1990 - 1991 for a math class I

took and a physics class also. At the time my part time work was as a

graphic artist/typesetter. At first doing assignements using mathematica was

tedious. This was not due to formatting issues but as a result of doing the

homework as I typed. When I did it by hand then retyped, the process was

very smooth. Doing assingments using mathematica help me solve a lot of

issues with the program especially this was done in a windows/dos

environment.The better thing would be to use a style sheet (Can you get additional style

sheet from wolfram). Better yet make one your self. Make extensive use of

the Options Inspector. It would be a good idea to make up a naming

convention.For example Assignment Style Sheet

Header

AuthorGroup: (List repeatable, an assignment can be group assignments)

FirstName:

LastName:

MiddleInitial:

Class:

Assignment Number:

Due Date: (Ideas is to include

1. Simple way: Use a Text or Caption cell beneath the cell containing

the table. 2. Sophisticated way: Make the caption part of the table by creating a

grid box with 2 boxes arranged in a column, in the upper of the 2 boxes

create a gridbox for the table, and in the lower of the 2 boxes put the

caption.You can construct very complicated 2-dimensional structures by nesting boxes

as in (2) above.

I wouldn't have put it as strongly as that, but I know what you mean.I think the default behaviour of the various Mathematica style sheets is not

what you would expect if you are used to a standard wordprocessor (e.g. MS

Word). I have spent a lot of time trying to discover how to coerse

Mathematica into typesetting things the way I want, and I have been defeated

in only a handful of cases (e.g. WYSIWYG multiple-column formatting,

outdented paragraph numbering that is correctly aligned with the first line

of the paragraph, etc).I wish things were documented better and lots of examples given (maybe it

is - but WHERE is it?) to save us the time rediscovering how to make

Mathematica do the typesetting we want. It seems that a long learning curve

is quite a tradition with Mathematica.FWIW I have written many technical papers using Mathematica, which I also

use to develop the research and generate the results that appear in my

papers. I used to use MS Word and LaTeX, but now I can't imagine not using

Mathematica despite having to solve cryptic (but very logical) puzzles in

order to make it do what I want.

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