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COMP4800
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I do not anticipate issuing a fail grade to anyone submitting a COMP4800 report. You will
simply not receive a degree until you have submitted a satisfactory report on your industrial
experience.
A satisfactory report will:
contain the required elements listed above, be well laid out for ease of reference and citation, be easy to read and understand, clearly indicate, through your reflections and evaluations of actual experience, that you have grasped the key elements of software engineering, and also contain some indication of your intuition, your level of maturity, your philosophy of software engineering and will indicate how you have come to this position by drawing connections with your current knowledge and skills.
An unsatisfactory report usually:
does not contain several of the required elements, and/or demonstrates an obvious rush just to "get it out of the way" by inclusion of clichés, motherhood statements and obvious observations,
and/or is written appallingly (with lots of spelling and grammatical errors to the point of
incomprehensibility).
Any report deemed unsatisfactory will be returned to a student for further work and resubmission.
It is not my intention to be hard on you or to try and steer you in any particular direction regarding the conclusions of your report. (If you really believe that your studies
were useless, say so, and back it up with evidence from your personal experience.) The point of writing this report is:
to force you to think about the value of what you have learned at university, in the light of your experiences in the workplace, to encourage you to build on your current knowledge and skills, to broaden your perspective on software engineering theory and practice, and to help us to improve the BSEng degree program by benefiting from your valuable experience.
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