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Below are your provisional (un-moderated) marks for the CS666 assignment. Please note that some of the feedback here is semi automatically generated based on the grades given. You will
find individual comments at the end.
There are a couple of general comments to the group. I found that many (but of course not all) of the reports could have been improved by better discussion of the underlying issues, with perhaps less `raw' technical details ("list of facts syndrome").
Neal
Future prospects for high-speed mobile Internet access
The following mark is for Ball, Crystal for the above piece of work.
The assessment was marked against the following tasks.
| Task | Task Description | Proportion |
| Prospects discussion | Discussion of the prospects for mobile Internet | 15% |
| Level of understanding | Does the essay demonstrate a good understanding of the technologies and their relationships? | 20% |
| Depth of knowledge | How well does the discussion explain the features of the technologies at an appropriate and consistent level? | 20% |
| Structure | Does the essay have a logical structure and coherent argument? | 20% |
| Bibliography | Is there a comprehensive, relevant and well referenced bibliography? | 10% |
| Presentation and style | How professional was the presentation and style? | 15% |
Your overall mark for 'CS66610 Essay Assignment'is: 44.5%. This mark is based on your marks for each task, as shown below.
| Prospects discussion | |
| Grade achieved | Reasonable Attempt 5/10 |
| Grade based feedback | Future prospects for mobile internet was discussed, however it was a little superficial, and did not address significant areas. The report could be improved by including more discussion regarding the consumer prospects. The report could be improved by including more discussion regarding the commercial prospects. |
| Level of understanding | |
| Grade achieved | Reasonable Attempt 5/10 |
| Grade based feedback | The main technologies are described, but there is not much evidence that the main features and differences between them are understood. The technologies are simply described in isolation, and/or there are too many unexplained technical terms. |
| Depth of knowledge | |
| Grade achieved | Reasonable Attempt 5/10 |
| Grade based feedback | The relevant technologies are described to some extent but are too simplistic (or possibly contain irrelevant technical details without relevant context) This task could be improved by reducing the amount technical details that do not seem relevant to the discussions. The report needs to more cohesive. It appears as a set of disjointed fragments. Since the whole discussion is about 4G the description of 4G requirements was minimal. I'm not sure that the description of previous generation technologies helps the discussion of future prospects in the report - this needs to be made clearer. |
| Structure | |
| Grade achieved | Reasonable Attempt 5/10 |
| Grade based feedback | The essay is not very easy to read, reasons may be because the flow does not help the reader, or the discussion/argument is badly thought out. |
| Bibliography | |
| Grade achieved | Reasonable 2/5 |
| Grade based feedback | Bibliography was provided, but could be improved. Url references require more information including title, date accessed, an some indication of the authority of the source. |
| Presentation and style | |
| Grade achieved | Poor 1/5 |
| Grade based feedback | Presentation and/or style made the essay difficult to read. The report should be written in a more consistent formal style. Empty sections (ie only subsections with no introductory text) are poor style in my opinion. The grammar could be improved. |
Overall comments: The report reads rather more like a list of facts about each technology, than considered exposition of the features that are relevant to answering the question set.
The summary table is good, but would be much better if the concepts behind the terms had previously been explained. For example you should explain that MIMO is all about multiple antennas. You need to discuss the main differences and benefits with the modulation
techniques, and the essence of the basis of the ideas?
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