I got given an assignmenton wide area networking, we had a spec and had to come up with a suitable WAN, complete with costings and a description of all the technologies involved.
To complete this assignment I simply rang BT's wide area network sales and read them the requirements and wrote down what they said, inserting the phrase (see chapter 2) next to the first mention of ISDN, (see chapter 3) after the first mention of ATM (ADSL didn't exist back then)
The other chapters, one on each technology where web pages copied from american sites then run through the Word grammar checker to turn them into UK english, since I knew the college checked for this sort of copying by throwing some of your paragraphs into altavista.
It gets better though. I lent the assignment to a mate who was struggling and he changed the font from 12pt to 10pt and put on a different front cover.
The result? I got a distinction, he got a pass.
(To complete this assignment I simply rang BT's wide area network sales and read them the requirements and wrote down what they said, inserting the phrase (see chapter 2) next to the first mention of ISDN, (see chapter 3) after the first mention of ATM (ADSL didn't exist back then)
The other chapters, one on each technology where web pages copied from american sites then run through the Word grammar checker to turn them into UK english, since I knew the college checked for this sort of copying by throwing some of your paragraphs into altavista.
It gets better though. I lent the assignment to a mate who was struggling and he changed the font from 12pt to 10pt and put on a different front cover.
The result? I got a distinction, he got a pass.
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