The final version of the Project Work written report is finally done. I opened the CD ROM provided to me by the school and had a look at the contents. Ah, good memories of our first written report draft. It looks like crap to me now. Who would have though that we would decide to do each chapter individually and dump them into one document before declaring it was a report. The link between the chapters were so bad that it was almost as if no one read through the whole report, every single chapter. It was a pretty good start though. At least we had something to work with from then on.
Oh, looks like they saved another document inside the CD ROM. The "Originality Report". This magical report tells us how much of our written report has been taken from the net, or from another student report that has been through "turn it in" too. With an overall similarity index with our sources of 8%, I guess they cannot say that we plagiarised. It appears that we have a 1% similarity index with Wikipedia. How wonderful. On top of that, we have a 1% similarity index with many other student reports from the past too. Maybe they took information from Wikipedia too, hmmm...
My mouse hover above the "Save as" button, as I considered if I should just save the final version of our written report into the CD ROM now. They made the disc a read-only disc, which meant that once we saved our report, there is no way we can remove or edit it. It had to be our real final version. I phased out for a minute, and imagined Gabriel coming up to me tomorrow, waving the printed report in front of my face before proceeding to point out a couple of grammar mistakes, a handful of spelling mistakes, some formatting error that occurred while converting the document from Microsoft Word 2007 to Microsoft Word 2003 and signing off with one huge conceptual error that somehow managed to sneak all the way from the start to the end. Horrors. Luckily, we have one more day. I should just save the document tomorrow.
xw 8:51 AM
