After your Works Cited please include your research paper outline (so I can see your thought process)
Checklist:
If your paper has no citations, I will not read or grade it. You will earn 0 points (F)
If your paper has quotations/quotes it will automatically mean -25 points per quotation as quotations are not allowed; citations imply you are rephrasing information from those papers.
-20 points for including figures in the middle of the text; all figures go after the 5 pages minimum text
-20 points for having too much blank space (as demoed in class)
-20 points for not having at least three peer reviewed journal articles
-20 points for misspelling and grammatical errors
If you have a Materials/Methods section you will loose -50 points. You did not conduct these experiments. This is not your Cell Bio course and I asked you to not include a section like that.
Make sure you DO NOT have a title page
Make sure you have your approved title at the top
Make sure you do not have excess/random white space indicating you did not have enough material for 5 pages
Make sure you use 10, 11, or 12 point font
Make sure it is either single, 1.5 or double spaced
Make sure you have 5 pages of text and ensure you have in text citations (numbers that correspond to references format also okay)
Order of information:
5 pages of text with citations pages 1 -5 (can be longer but not necessary)
Then, 2 figures with legends (and citations) but you can also include a figure you made on BioRender for extra credit
Then Works Cited/References
This draft should be completed with figures at the end of the 5 pages of text and a works cited. You must have citations of peer reviewed journal articles. It is imperative.
Paper graded on:
Coherent flow – do the sentences make sense? Is it random facts or carefully throughout out paragraphs with a central purpose that matches the title?
Spelling, Grammar
Content and impact – Why should we care about the topic you are teaching us about? What are the potential benefits or reasons to care or invest?
Connection to Evolution course – Please do no write a paper about a random illness or a drug. That will earn 50% off immediately as I will not/did not approve such titles.
Growth over your drafts – did you improve? Did you put your best effort?
Points Breakdown:
25 points – Just for following the formatting request including your citations
10 points – Approved and thoughtful title – I know what you’ll be discussing
40 points – Introduction – You are introducing thoughtful, relevant background, history, fun facts. You introduce your jargon and define it briefly. You describe what you are going to be talking about. You include significance (why is it important to consider this/learn about this?) Include vocabulary from class that is relevant when possible. Include citations.
75 points – Body/Discussion – Written at the level of a junior/senior student in college, has citations
50 points – Conclusion – Wrap up – make sure you are not including any new ideas or vocab. You are wrapping up the main ideas, ending with signficance of why the topic(s) you taught me about is relevant and important to the world at large, and how your literature review is connected to the course topic (Evolution).
I will be asking myself the following questions: Was it clear from the get go what I was going to be reading about? Is it coherent? Was it random scientific terms in strings or was the writing coherent? Did this paper have citations? Is this topic related to evolution? Did the writer include significance? Is this scientifically accurate?
