Project Students - its that time of year again

this is the time of year that I get to meet a whole new batch of project students. Its interesting, but also reminds me that these folk may be new to academic conventions.

I place a big emphasis on developing writing, because so often folk are let down by their written communication of good work.

Today I chanced on a very excellent web site which provides concrete examples of good referencing style

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxc/refs/index.html

well worth a good look

Its been a while - visualisation stuff

Not sure why life has got the better of me, but hey ho!
occasional readers (for there can be none other given the paucity of posts) will understand I have an interest and passion for visualisations


The Importance of Visual Literacy
today, in an effort to express myself I found an update on the visual literacies website and also stumbled on this blog while trying to work out the right way to represent some tricky information

http://wilgengebroed.nl/visual-literacy-should-be-equally-important-as-textual-literacy-in-our-educational-systems/

on top of that The good folk at http://www.visual-literacy.org/ have got some tutorials online. I shall certainly be pointing all my project and phd students and the one on Business visualisations. The general principles outlined there are, I think, just right for an undergraduate student project and for first year post grad work too.