Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

“The Red Book”

Safety Guide
Avoiding Cheating
Satisfactory Performance Requirements
Late Submission Penalty Policy
Tests and Projects: Checking of the Marks
Writing Check Lists
Support

The contents of this publication may be subject to change without prior notice. All

changes will be conveyed to students via the relevant notification channel.

Revision 3.0
Contents
A Guide to Safety in the Laboratory Areas within the School of Elec-
trical and Information Engineering. 1
A.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A.2 Dress Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A.3 General Safety Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A.4 Electrical Power in the The Chamber of Mines Building . . . . . . . . 4
A.5 Workshops Additional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

B Cheating. 6
B.1 Cheating and How to Avoid It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
B.2 Engineering Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B.3 The School’s Policy on Copied Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B.4 Using Quotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
B.5 Minimum Requirements for all reports submitted by students to the
School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

C Satisfactory Performance Requirements. 11

D Assessment Procedures 12
D.1 Late Submission Penalty Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
D.2 Missing an Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
D.3 Tests and Projects: Checking of Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
D.3.1 Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
D.3.2 Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

E Report Writing and Presentation Check Lists. 17

F Support 23
F.1 Campus Health and Wellness Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
F.2 Counselling and Careers Development Unit (CCDU) . . . . . . . . . . 23
F.3 Academic Development Unit (ADU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
 F.4 First Year Experience (FYE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Current Maintainer: A. Pantanowitz

Compiled by: Professor G.J. Gibbon. Previous Maintainer: Professor A.R. Clark.

Copyright ©
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 17th January 2022.

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A Guide to Safety in the Laboratory Areas within
the School of Electrical and Information Engi-
neering.

Editors: A. Pantanowitz, Professor A.R. Clark and Professor G.J. Gibbon

The best guide to safety is your own common sense.

The question to ask is “What can go wrong if I do this”.

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You are responsible for your own safety, and for the
safety of others in the laboratory.

A.1 General
1.1 The School has an Occupational, Health and Safety Committee.
1.2 It is the responsibility of each individual to ensure his/her safety and the safety
of others in the laboratory. Rules and regulations alone cannot make any
laboratory a safe place to work.
1.3 It is your obligation to inform a co-worker if you see that person performing an
act that violates the safety principles laid down in this document.
1.4 Look with your eyes—and not with your hands.
1.5 When just observing, always keep your hands in your pockets or behind your
back where they cannot touch things.
1.6 Make sure you know where the following are in the laboratory:
1.6.1 The exit and/or fire escape
1.6.2 The first aid kit
1.6.3 The fire extinguisher
1.6.4 Telephone and emergency numbers

A.2 Dress Code

2.1 The correct dress code is to be observed in the laboratory at all times. Any
clothing or jewellery that can pose either a hazard due to electrical shock or
getting caught in rotating equipment must be removed before entering the
laboratory.
2.2 Closed shoes are to be worn at all times.
2.3 Long hair is to be tied up when working with rotating machinery or where it
can come into contact with dangerous voltages.
2.4 Ties, scarves and necklaces are to be removed or tucked in.
2.5 Watches and bracelets are to be removed when working with high voltages.
2.6 A dust/lab coat must be worn when conducting an experiment in certain labora-
tories (for instance the High Voltage laboratory). Check with the Laboratory
Coordinators.
2.7 Ear and eye protection must be worn if appropriate (confirm with Laboratory
Staff).
2.8 Leather gloves and aprons must be worn when appropriate (confirm with Lab-
oratory Staff).

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A.3 General Safety Rules
3.1 When attempting to lift heavy equipment, the correct lifting equipment fitted
with the correct capacity rigging must be used.
3.2 Cables must be laid in such a way as not to pose a safety hazard—either from
electrical shock or from the point of view of somebody tripping over them.
3.3 All “floating” cables, i.e. a cable with a disconnected earth lead, must be
marked with red tape at both ends. Use is strongly discouraged and must be
discussed with laboratory staff.
3.4 In the High Voltage laboratory isolation transformers should be used in con-
junction with all mains powered measurement equipment. There must be earth
continuity through the transformer—between the equipment chassis and the
electrical protective conductor (third pin or green/yellow conductor).
3.5 When making differential measurements or measurements at numerous points,
care must be taken in the earthing strategy employed for the measurement
equipment. If it is absolutely necessary to “float” a piece of equipment extreme
care must be taken. Attempt to find a method which does NOT require
“floating” of any items of equipment (confirm with laboratory staff).
3.6 The user of measurement equipment must first familiarise himself/herself with
the operation and most importantly the maximum ratings of the inputs to the
equipment. The user must ensure that the signals that are to be measured
will never exceed the maximum ratings of the equipment to be used.
3.7 Never touch, interfere with or modify in any way another person’s experiment.
Modifying an experiment without informing the experimenter that is working
on it can have disastrous consequences. Applying power to an experiment
without the experimenter’s knowledge is dangerous.
3.8 Never enter the area of an experiment that has been demarcated with warning
signs or chained off without the express permission of the experimenter. Even
then it is up to you to determine for yourself that it is safe to do so.
3.9 No person is to work on their own in any laboratory. Supervision must be
provided by either a member of staff or a postgraduate student.
3.10 All voltage and current supplies are to be treated as live at all times.
3.11 All experiments in the High Voltage laboratory must be equipped with an
“Earth Stick” solidly bonded to the laboratory earth.
3.12 Warning signs must be placed in a clearly visible position on all equipment
containing capacitors that could be charged to more than 100 V.
3.13 All AC supplies are to be fitted with over-current circuit breakers of the correct
rating on the primary side.
3.14 No experiment is to be set up in such a way as to block walk-ways, prevent
the switching off of the power at the main distribution board, prevent access
to the fire fighting equipment or become a general safety hazard.

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3.15 When an experiment is over, the experiment is to be dismantled and all equip-
ment is to be returned to its proper storage location.
3.16 In the Electromagnetics laboratory using RF power in excess of 13 dBm must
be approved by the laboratory coordinator.
3.17 For the final year Investigation Projects laboratories will, nominally, only be
accessible between 08:00 and 17:00.
3.18 Abide by prevailing COVID-19 guidelines as per the University stipulations.

A.4 Electrical Power in the The Chamber of Mines Building

The Chamber of Mines Building has two types of electrical power available:

• Earth-leakage protected (Safe Power) and

• no earth-leakage protection (Lethal Power).

In the newer, or refurbished parts of the Chamber of Mines Building:

• Safe Power = White Sockets.

• Lethal Power = Red Sockets.

In the older, unrefurbished parts of the Chamber of Mines Building:

• Safe Power = Standard South African Round Pin 15A Sockets.

• Lethal Power = British Rectangular Pin 13A Sockets.

The Red socket/Rectangular pin should only be used to power unopened, well
earthed computers requiring power that will not be subject to earth-leakage trips.
i.e. Essential services.
All other equipment, computers and research/laboratory experiments must be con-
nected to the earth-leakage protected power (White socket/Round Pin).

1. ON NO ACCOUNT must equipment plugged into different powers be in-

terconnected in any way.
2. Where research equipment needs to interface with a computer with a physically
connected LAN cable, the research equipment must be connected to a mobile
earth-leakage unit plugged into the Lethal Power.
This ensures that the Network Earth is still on Lethal Power, but also that
the equipment is safe.

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A.5 Workshops Additional
This includes the Machines workshop and the Electronics workshop. No student
is allowed to enter or use any machine in these workshop areas without first get-
ting permission from a member of the technical staff who will give any additional
instructions on safety and the proper use of the machines and issue any additional
safety equipment.

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B Cheating.

Editor: G.J. Gibbon

Extracts from the School of Electrical and

Information Engineering’s Communications Manual.
Note: In the context of work submitted for examination,
Plagiarism is Cheating.

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The following are extracts from the School of Electrical and Information Engineer-
ing’s Communications Manual [1].

B.1 Cheating and How to Avoid It

Cheating is a wrongful attempt to pass off another’s work as one’s own, or the act
of copying without permission or acknowledgement.
In short, cheating is intellectual theft.
Cheating may constitute a criminal offence under copyright law. Cheating is viewed
as a serious breach of academic and professional ethics. Universities, and Wits is
no exception, see cheating in a serious light and proactively discourage the practice
and take appropriate action against students who plagiarise.
What does this mean for the student? In plain English, the total unacceptability of
cheating means that:

• Do not simply copy material, including text, diagrams and software, from
other sources into your work.

• It is permissible to make limited, properly acknowledged, quotations from ref-

erences if, and only if, you follow the conventions for text quotations described
in section B.4. Quotations must support the arguments of your work.

• When referring to the work of others, clearly attribute the referenced material
to its author(s).

• Write the part of your text referring to the work of others in your own words
and logic. Summarise or paraphrase, and even criticise, the original author’s
work.

• Make use of accepted citing and referencing conventions.

• Do not copy diagrams from references. Features of figures from the litera-
ture may be adapted into drawings, omitting or de-emphasising unimportant
features, emphasising the features of particular relevance to your work and
showing your contribution to the understanding of the material. The original
must still be acknowledged. For example: put in the caption “Adapted from
Smith [10]".

• NOTE: that the Copyright terms of commonly used software like Google
Earth or Maps etc etc are Heavily protected!! Read the copyright terms.

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B.2 Engineering Practice
In engineering practice it is acceptable to use existing designs and systems as part of
the development of a new system. These could include circuits from data sheets and
sections of software code. The use of this material is, of course, subject to copyright
and any licence/use agreement that may apply, and must be fully referenced in any
report or document describing the new system.
The University’s policy on cheating can be found at:
http://share.ds.wits.ac.za/DeptRegistrarsIntranetPublished/PLAGIARISM%20POLICY.doc

B.3 The School’s Policy on Copied Material

No copied material that does not have the written permission of the copyright holder
may be included in any document or presentation submitted to the University for
examination. Such copied material includes, but is not restricted to, text (unless
quoted: see B.4), figures, graphics, images, video material and software (including
applications and source code).
This is in line with the copyright laws for publications available to an external audi-
ence. These would include fourth year design and project reports, MSc dissertations,
PhD theses, conference presentations and proceedings, articles, papers and books.
Note for students: Copied work presented for an examination, even with permis-
sion and correctly referenced, will attract no marks. An examination is a test to see
whether certain outcomes are met, not a student’s ability to copy!!!
Further information on writing reports within the Faculty of Engineering and the
Built Environment can be found in the booklet “Style Guide for Theses and Disser-
tations” [?] available from the faculty office.

B.4 Using Quotations

When quotations are used the source must be attributed via a citation to the refer-
ence list. For example, when the numerical system is used, the reference number and
page number should be cited. Suggestions for formatting major and minor quotes
follow.

Major quotes

Major quotations are formatted as separate paragraphs. A segment of text incorpo-

rating a major quotation is given in example 1.

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Example 1: Text using a major quotation
As in any other field, good man-machine interfaces are particularly needed
in the field of telecommunication:

In large exchanges, where the consequences of an error are con-

siderable and the amount of data to be handled is formidable,
the user-friendly man-machine language eases the problem [20
p.97].

Minor Quotes

Minor quotations are formatted within a sentence or paragraph. A segment of text

incorporating a minor quotation is given in example 2.

Example 2: Text using a minor quotation

Advanced features of ETEs require operators to have higher qualifications.
One method of coping with the advanced features is to provide the best
interface between the operator and the system in order to enhance the effec-
tiveness of the operator’s work and to reduce training costs [4 p.270].

When the Harvard system is used the citation takes the form (Bloggs 1999, p.270).

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B.5 Minimum Requirements for all reports submitted by stu-
dents to the School
√
Table 1 shows the elements of a report. Those marked must be included in all
reports submitted by students to the School of Electrical and Information Engi-
neering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg unless otherwise stated in
course instructions.

Table 1: The elements of a report

Title page
√
Title
√
Abstract (summary or synopsis)
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of symbols, abbreviations or acronyms, only in a long report
√
Introduction, background to the problem and literature survey
√
Descriptive part of the report, which may include various
chapters or sections and discussion of the results
√
Conclusion
√
References and a list of references
Bibliography
Appendices

References
[1] H. E. Hanrahan and G. J. Gibbon, Communication and the Engineer, vol. Re-
vision 10.0. School of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

[2] G. S. of Engineering and the Built Environment, Style Guide for Theses and
Dissertations. Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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C Satisfactory Performance Requirements.
Refer to Rule G.13 for the General Rule governing Satisfactory Performance. Certain
courses may include additional requirements to for Satisfactory Performance—refer
to the relevant Course Brief and Outline.
Application for exemption from any component of the course must be lodged with the
Faculty or School office as appropriate. Exemption will generally only be considered
on medical grounds, with medical certificates. See also the following section on the
School’s Late Submission Penalty Policy.

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D Assessment Procedures
All assessment deliverables by students in the School shall be submitted online.
Deadlines for submission of deliverables shall be specified in the form of a deadline
window with a start time and an end time. The beginning of a window period is the
actual hand-in deadline, but in order to consider situational problems that students
face, a window period of non-penalty is allowed which ends at the end of the window
period. The School shall specify the deadline windows for 4th year first semester
course projects, 4th year laboratory and design projects and all examination equiv-
alents. There shall be one deadline for all 1st semester 4th year first semester course
projects. The course coordinators shall specify the deadline windows for all other
deliverables.

D.1 Late Submission Penalty Policy.

Penalties will apply for submissions after the end of the window.
This policy will be enforced with regards to late submission of course deliverables.
Given the final mark for all deliverables the following action will be taken:

• On submission of a deliverable up to one hour after the end of the deadline

window, the student will receive a penalty of 5 marks (out of 100) off the final
mark;

• Deliverables submitted between one hour and four hours after the end of the
deadline window, carry a penalty of 15 marks (out of 100) off the final mark.
This is illustrated by the following example:

Final Mark 75
Late Submission (one to four hours after the deadline) -15
New Final Mark 60

• If a five or 15 mark penalty results in a failing mark (below 50 %) for the

course, the deliverables will be assessed on a pass/fail basis, checking that key
outcomes have been achieved. In fourth year courses the Graduate Attributes
(GA) will be checked, and in other years the preparation for the GAs will be
checked. The final mark in such a case will be 50 % only if all outcomes are
rated at least acceptable; if any outcome is less than acceptable the final mark
will be 0 %.

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 • Deliverables submitted more than four hours after the end of the deadline
window shall be graded as 0 %.

• There shall be no provision for late submission in the capstone projects, 4th
year Design Project and 4th year Investigation Project. Failure to meet the
submission deadline shall be handled through an appeal process.

• The late submission policy and penalties does not apply to submissions re-
lated to synchronous work by the student, such as timed quizzes and timed
online tests. By virtue of being timed submissions done synchronously by stu-
dents, just like the invigilated in-person tests and exams, there is no room for
accepting late submission.

In the case where several deliverables are due, for example a report and source code,
all deliverables must be submitted before the deadline - if any one of the deliverables
is late the overall penalty will be determined based on the submission time of the
last deliverable. Refer to the relevant Project or Course Brief and Outline for the
expected deliverables.
Any exceptions to the above rules must be discussed by the student with the Head of
the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. See also the previous section
on Satisfactory Performance Requirements.
In the event that a submission deadline is missed for medical reasons the matter is
referred to the Head of School. While there is a pending decision on your application
for an extension, you must treat the duration of the extension as the maximum time
for which you were booked off by a healthcare professional. You must therefore
submit before the time specified in your medical letter lapses from the deadline.
By way of example, if you were booked off as ill for two days, and thus missed the
deadline, you need to submit within 48 hours from the deadline.

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D.2 Missing an Assessment
If you feel that you have a legitimate reason for missing a deadline, you may apply
for exemption from the late submission policy. The appeals will be considered by
the Head of School (or designate) whose decision shall be final. If you miss an
assessment for a legitimate reason, you may apply for exemption depending on the
assessment missed.
In the case of an assignment, exam or test missed for verified legitimate reasons,
you may be granted a deferred assessment, or have the mark contribution of the
assessment removed.
The procedure is that students must collect a form from the EIE reception, complete
the form and attach any documentary evidence to the form. Documentary evidence
is a medical certificate or, for example, a verified copy of the death certificate in the
case of the death of a close family member. This must be handed in at the School’s
reception, and it is then reviewed by the Head of School, and decisions are made at
the sole discretion of the School.

D.3 Tests and Projects: Checking of Marks

Please Note: Marks are not negotiable for Electrical and Information
Engineering Courses.
Generally course tests and projects are not externally examined and are returned to
the students after the marking is complete. It is the responsibility of the student to
check for errors in the marking process, such as the addition of the marks, unmarked
sections and that the mark corresponds to the published mark.
The following procedure must be followed if you find a mistake in the marking
process:

D.3.1 Tests

A written submission explaining the reasons must be submitted at reception, within

7 days from when the test was available for collection, together with your test book.
The submission should clearly state the following:

1. The question/s to be considered.

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 2. Justification.

D.3.2 Projects

A written submission explaining the reasons must be submitted at reception, within

7 days from when the report was available for collection, together with the report
and the assessment form. The submission should clearly state the following:

1. The area (see assessment form) where the assessment is incorrect.

2. Justification in terms of the rating on the assessment form.

For example: If requesting “Excellent” you must be able to justify “Excep-
tional insight and multiple distinguishing features”.

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Please Note:

• No questions/sections written in pencil will be reviewed.

• The mark may go up, stay the same or go down.
• Make sure your submission has been signed for at reception.
• If the justification is “Another student wrote the same thing and
got a better mark”, both tests/projects must be submitted with the
request.

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E Report Writing and Presentation Check Lists.

CHECKLIST 1: ABSTRACT

Does the Abstract, together with the title, form a unit covering:

• The purpose of the work;

• The depth of treatment;

• The methods used;

• Results, conclusions, recommendations?

Is the the Abstract:

• Factual and specific;

• Written in full sentences;

• Written as a single paragraph;

• Free from references or mathematics unless there is a good reason for

inclusion.

CHECKLIST 2: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Is the Acknowledgement:

• Restricted to recognising those who significantly contributed to the work;

• The place where you identify contributions: for example funding, work
done, information supplied or helpful discussions;

• Straightforward, not overstated, not flattering;

• Located:

– In initial pages in a long document;

– For a paper or a short to medium report, after the conclusions or as
a footnote on the title page?

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 CHECKLIST 3: INTRODUCTION

Put yourself in the reader’s position. At end of the Introduction:

• Has the background been sketched?

• Is the purpose of the report clear?

• Is the problem clearly identified and stated?

• Is there a guide to the rest of the document?

• Is the reader likely to be ready to tackle the rest of the document?

• Is the literature survey satisfactory:

– Has sufficient information been collected?

– Is each reference significant to the problem?
– Has the literature survey been documented in the text using a proper
referencing system.

CHECKLIST 4: REPORT STRUCTURE

• Does the Skeleton, as reflected in the table of contents:

– have short but explanatory section and subsection headings;

– follow logically from the problem statement;
– show the logical development of the report;
– lead logically to the conclusion?

• Within each (sub-)section, does the first sentence of each paragraph reveal
the logical development?

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 CHECKLIST 5: MATHEMATICS IN REPORTS AND PAPERS

• Is the mathematics essential to the development of the report’s logic?

• Does the level of mathematics match the audience’s capability?

• Are complex mathematical developments relegated to appendices?

• Are symbols carefully chosen and defined?

• Is the layout of mathematics similar to that used in textbooks?

• Has the mathematics been checked thoroughly for errors?

CHECKLIST 6: FIGURES AND TABLES

• Are the tables and figures numbered, each with its own series of numbers?

• Is every figure and table referred to in the text?

• Does each figure and the text that refers to it, contribute to understanding
of the report?

• Does each table and the text that refers to it, contribute useful data to
an understanding of the report?

• Is there a concise explanatory caption:

– above each table;

– below each figure?

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 CHECKLIST 7: CONCLUSION

Does the concluding section:

• Summarise and analyse the principal findings;

• Draw factual conclusions or exercise judgement relating to the problem

statement;

• Introduce information not contained in the main body (if so move to main
sections);

• Record proposals for further work arising from the present project?

CHECKLIST 8: REFERENCES AND REFERENCE LISTS

• Is the referencing system acceptable to the target audience?

• Is every citation made according to the system chosen?

• Does the reference list conform to the chosen system?

• Could a stranger find every reference from the data given in the list?

• Is every reference in the list cited in the text?

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 CHECKLIST 9: APPENDICES

• Is there any part of the main text which is:

– hard to read but which contributes its results to the logic of the
main text;
– a very detailed table of data;
– a detailed engineering drawing;
– detailed mathematics (in a non-mathematical report);
– other material which detracts from the continuity of the main text?

• If yes to any of the above, move the material to an appendix and refer to
it from main text.

• Is the material in an appendix available in the literature? If yes, remove

the appendix and use a reference instead.

• Is every appendix referred to in the main text? If not, is the appendix

necessary?

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 CHECKLIST 10: PREPARATION FOR A PRESENTATION

• Are the purpose of the presentation and the audience clearly identified?

• Have all constraints been identified and taken into account?

• Does the structure fit the purpose, audience requirements and con-
straints?

• Has a style of presentation been identified and checked against the audi-
ence requirements?

• Does the set of slides (and other visual aids) reflect the structure, style
and purpose?

• Is the supporting material appropriate and available?

• Has the presentation been rehearsed sufficiently in the presence of col-

leagues?

CHECKLIST 11: SLIDES FOR A PRESENTATION

• Does the number of slides depart from the rule of one per two minutes?
If so, is the number justified?

• Is there a title slide?

• Is there an outline slide?

• Is there a concluding slide?

• Does each slide have an explanatory title?

• Does the text on any slide violate size rules?

• If a data projector is to be used, is there a backup set of slides?

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F Support
If you find you need help or advice please contact:

F.1 Campus Health and Wellness Centre

The Campus Health & Wellness Centre (CHWC) offers a wide variety of health
services to Wits students and staff members. The services are convenient, accessible,
caring and cost-effective.
The CHWC is a registered professional medical practice. All its patients’ records are
therefore confidential. Information regarding a patient will only be released with the
written permission from the patient, if court ordered or in the case of threatening
illness.
Lower Ground of the Student Union Building below the Matrix. http://www.wits.
ac.za/prospective/studentservices/campushealth/11520/home.html

F.2 Counselling and Careers Development Unit (CCDU)

CCDU provides services in the following areas:

• Career Services—career development through career counselling/education,

psychometric career assessments and personal development workshops.

• Therapy Services—one-on-one counselling and/or group therapy, trauma de-

briefing and psycho-education in the form of workshops and

• HIV/AIDS Education and Support services - holistic interventions and pro-

grammes for students affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.

• Sexual Harassment advisory office—dealing with all forms of unwelcome sexual

conduct on campus.

• Peer Counselling Service—trained peers helping students deal with daily prob-
lems and challenges.

• Learn for Life—is a structured programme that provides psychosocial learn-

ing and life skills development for students through the facilitation of group
processes, presentations, workshops and trainings.

• Graduate Recruitment—A programme in which recruiters actively recruit stu-

dents for employment opportunities.

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 • University Student Employment—facilitates student placement for part time,
flexi time and/or temporary work.

CCDU Building, West Campus, Gate 9, Enoch Sontonga Avenue, Braamfontein.

Telephone: 27 11 717-9140/32
Email: info.ccdu@wits.ac.za

F.3 Academic Development Unit (ADU)

They offer first-year engineering mainstream students tutorials in:

• Mathematics

• Physics

• Mechanics

• Chemistry

• Language and Communication

• Computer skills

Do you just need to chat with someone regarding:

• Time Management

• Study Skills

• Feeling overwhelmed by studies

http://www.wits.ac.za/adu

F.4 First Year Experience (FYE)

“The First Year Experience (FYE) programme provides a bridging gap between high
school and university by providing a support structure aimed at empowering and
equipping first year university students with the necessary and essential skills to
navigate successfully through university.”
A full list of students services can be found at: http://www.wits.ac.za/studentservices
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