20.109(S14):NHEJ system research article
Contents
Overview
The culminating assignment for Module 2 will be a research article in which you describe your systems engineering investigation. The term research article (as opposed to laboratory report) is meant to indicate your growing maturity as scientific writers, and our growing expectations of you. While your Module 1 assignments contained many of the same elements that you'll include here, the research article should be a cohesive document that presents your data and interpretation in the context of a larger story. Your Module 2 paper should approach the quality of the primary scientific literature (excepting its lack of experiment repetition), especially with respect to explaining rather than merely documenting your observations. For more information about research articles vs. laboratory reports see here.
Logistics
Method of Submission
Please submit your completed report on Stellar, with filename FirstName_LastInitial_LabSection_Mod2.doc (for example, Raphael_R_TR_Mod2.doc). Late assignments should be submitted on Stellar as well.
You will complete this assignment individually. Please review the 20.109 statement on collaboration and integrity as you proceed.
Date of Submission
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Formatting Expectations
- Your main document (excluding figures) should be/have
- .docx (preferred) or .pdf
- 12-pt font
- with 1-inch margins
- double-spaced (excepting the abstract)
- Figures can be made in a separate drawing program (such as powerpoint), and should be submitted as .pdf
Guidelines on Length
Not counting figures, report length should not exceed 12 pages. The following rough division is recommended:
Please take the following guidelines with a grain of salt. Because we are teaching a brand-new module, we necessarily can only estimate the requisite section lengths. You will not be penalized for going modestly over a section limit if you are being thorough yet concise. Conversely, you might technically stay within a section limit yet use more space than your content warrants, which would lower your evaluation.
- Introduction: 2-3 pages
- Methods: 2-3 pages
- Results: 2-3 pages
- Discussion: 3-4 pages
