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AW Evaluation Item: Full Research Paper

Overview

Students are required to complete a formal research paper to demonstrate that they have learned the steps involved in writing a formal report.

Report must be submitted in both hard and soft (electronic) copy formats.
Due Date: End of Course
Cover Letter: For group or multiple author submissions, specify the contributions of each author. This includes both what they contributed, along with the percent of work done by each author. If this has been submitted to a journal or conference, please note the conference.(cf Sample Cover Letter)
Hardcopy should be given to the teacher during class or submitted during office hours.
Softcopy should be sent by Email to ScientificEnglish@gmail.com

The subject line of the Email should include

university acronym, course code, student IDs, YES/NO (request detailed marking), English names, Long Paper

See submitting assignments ppt for further details.
If you make use of writing tools to improve your English (e.g. ChatGPT, Grammarly, Co-Pilot), you must state which tools you used at the end of your paper.

Item	Section	Comments	Max Points			Actual
Item	Section	Comments	Full	Poster	MM	Actual
Macro-Level* (Linear Outline)
	Introduction	General intro to problem, literature review, hypothesis stated, plan of attack summarized; interesting, suitable length	2
	Experimental	Clear, Concise, Complete; past tense, no comments	2
	Results	Figures: artwork, labels, captions; Text: locate, present, comment; past tense	2
	Discussion	Style, logic structures, paragraph order smooth; verb tense	2
	Conclusion	Summarizes, Restates hypothesis, Author opinion, suitable length	2
Title	Good English, accurate, interesting		2.5		0
Abstract	50-100 words, purpose, method, results, conclusion		2.5	0
Visual Appeal	Attractive, appropriately sized fonts, quality figures (not photocopies!)		5	7.5	10
Micro-level	Grammatically correct, good sentence structure, correct spelling, English not Chinglish		5
* Sufficient depth, good organization, formatted as discussed in class, sufficient bulk in paragraphs.

May be either based on your
- own research OR
- group project
Length: > 1000 words
If your research is not complete, guess the results. (please make clear which results are guessed)
If the paper is based on your research, your supervisor must sign the hardcopy of the paper to certify that
- the English writing is primarily your work (not another student's)
- research results are original (i.e. not a summary of a published paper).

The Poster must be submitted and accepted by a recognized conference.
The Poster must be in English
Cover letter must include detailed information about the conference to which you have submitted the poster.
Please discuss with the facilitator first if you want to choose this option.
Note: Do not choose this option if you are not planning to submit to a conference.

This may be an individual or small group project.
If you wish to choose this project, please discuss your ideas first with teacher and get approval.