One written term paper , including an interim progress report and oral presentation , is required . below are project topics from past terms of the course 学期报告必须包括了一份书面报告，以及一份过程进度报告和口头报告。下面专题的题目来自本课程先前的内容。
The assignment is a term paper . students must choose a topic by end of fourth week of the term and submit their completed paper by thirteenth week of the term 作业是学期报告.每位学生必须在学期中第四个星期结束前选择一个作业里的主题，然后在学期的第十三个星期前缴交报告。
The paper should either present some new work addressing a relevant research problem , or provide a critical analysis of 2 - 3 papers on some aspect of learning , approximation , or networks 学期报告必须是有关研究问题的新发现，或者是提供一篇二到三页主题关于学习、估计网路的评论分析报告。
If you have a better idea for a term paper ( for instance , if you think that one of the chapters in the lecture notes does a bad job of explaining things , and that you could do a better job 如果你对学期报告的方式有更好的想法（例如：你认为从这些章节中的的某一节课程讲议对事物的论述不完善，而你却可以另外做的更好！ ）
The layout is cluttered or confusing , or the layout is so simple that the benefits of hypertext on the wwweb are lost on this project ( i . e . , it looks more like a term paper than a hypermedia project ) 布局杂乱无章，或布局太简单以致超本文的优点在本专题研究计画中看不出来（也就是说，它看起来更像一份学期报告，而不像一个超媒体专题研究计画） 。
You must also be able to effectively communicate your thoughts , ideas , insights , and research findings to others through written words as in a report , an essay , a research or term paper , or through spoken words as in an oral or multimedia presentation with audio - visual aids 你也一定要能够通过报告、或一个评论、调查、学期报告中的文字有效地传达你的想法、观点、洞察力和研究结果，或者通过一些视听设备提供的多媒体及口头文字达到这个目的。
