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M 1/3/011
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Classes resume. Over the break,
you should work on your semester project and continue preparing for your
midterm exam. The order of presentations has been determined at random and is
posted below. If you need to switch times, both students must agree and must get permission from Mr. Hansen.
Requirements for your project:
- There are two components of the project: A
written paper, which is due on January 5, and an oral PowerPoint
presentation, which you will give on January 6 or 7. Each of the two
components is worth 50 points, for a total of 100 points possible for
the project.
- For the written paper, 3 to 5 pages are
suggested. However, page count is not important, and if you cover
everything you need to say in less space, that is fine.
- List your sources in a bibliography at the end
of the paper. A bibliography is required from everyone, and for Robbie,
at least one of the sources must be a book.
- Footnotes are required if you copy
illustrations, quote a source word-for-word, or paraphrase a source.
Otherwise, footnotes are optional.
- Your paper must have a title page showing the
title of your project (if you wish, you can change the wording of the
title from what is shown in the calendar below), your name, the course
name, and the date.
- Body of the paper must be double-spaced.
- In your paper, describe what you sought to
learn, your process, and your conclusions. Subheadings are required. You
may use the suggested outline below, or you may create your own:
Executive
Summary
Research Question
Background
Methods Used
Principal Findings
Other Lessons Learned / Areas for Further
Research
- Use active voice whenever possible. In this
paper, you may use the word “I” when describing what you did.
- Spell-check and grammar-check your paper. Then,
ask a parent or a trusted friend to proofread the paper for you. There
will be a small point deduction for each colloquialism, spelling
mistake, typographical error, etc.
- Figures and tables, if any, must be captioned
(for example, Figure 1. Moore’s
Law) and referred to in the body of the text. If they are not
referenced explicitly in what you wrote, you should instead include them
as an appendix, and each appendix should be identified (Appendix A,
Appendix B, etc.) at the end of your report.
- The formatting styles that you use are not
important, but they must be consistently applied throughout the
document. For example, it would be an error to write Fig. 1 in part of the document
and Figure 2 elsewhere, since
your use of abbreviations, bold formatting, etc. should be consistent.
- In addition to the written paper, a PowerPoint
slide presentation (or equivalent) is required. This will form the
outline of what you will present to the class in a talk that should last
between 5 and 20 minutes. At least one slide is required (a title slide),
and your slide presentation may coincide closely with your written paper
if you wish.
- Your PowerPoint presentation may double as your
written paper, as long as it meets all the other requirements listed
above. However, PowerPoint is not good for presenting paragraphs of
text. Therefore, unless your paper is extremely terse, it is probably
best to have both a written 3-5 page paper and a separate PowerPoint
presentation.
- Deadline for submission of your paper (in hard
copy) and your PowerPoint file is Wednesday, January 5. Extensions
requested by January 4 may be granted on a case-by-case basis. If
necessary, you may make additional changes to the PowerPoint file
without penalty at any time before giving your talk on Thursday or
Friday.
- On the title page of your hard-copy submission,
sign your name in ink. Your signature certifies that all the work
contained in the paper is either your work or represents properly
footnoted quotations from the sources named in your bibliography.
Diagrams, photographs, figures, and tables, if they are not your work,
must also be properly attributed! “Cutting and pasting” or paraphrasing
without proper attribution is an honor offense.
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