Writing Assignment Guidelines

Make a title page that includes o Original Article Title o Your name o Submission date o Your course & section

Begin your report on the next page

Your review will be typed, o 12 point standard font, o 1 inch margins, o 1.5 line spacing

Length: 2 – 3 pages (not including title page)

At the end of the report you should include a reference (in ACS style) of the original article

What was the goal or purpose of the research described in the presentation?

What method did the speaker use?

Did the author use analagoies, allegories, or empirical fact based presentations?

Why do we care? It is crucial to determine the motivation of the work o why was this talk given, presented? o Why should we, as chemists, care? o Why should biologists (or other scientists) care? o Why should everyone (even non-scientists) care? o Does this research have application in larger society? o Why would this talk be of value as one considers taking a laboratory course?

Additional information o further introduce the topic, more detail on what specifically was said, a brief

history of the background, etc.). o specific example of an experiment, scientific method, or technique that you need

to explain or expand upon. o the point of the presentation to the semester ahead of you and even as far as

your anticipated career goals.

Concentrate on the major questions o What? o How? and o Why?