Arsenic Independent Study.  Reporting and Grading.  Deadline: Friday December 22nd Midnight.

Each group should write a report of their project in the form of a short journal article.  It should contain the following sections:

Title

Names and addresses of authors. Date report was submitted.

Abstract

Introduction

Experimental

Results and Discussion

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

The results and discussion section should include any tables and figures (including pictures) that are relevant.  Each table should have a title (above it) and each figure should have a caption below it.  You may want to include a figure in the experimental section if you include something that is best described by a picture.

Some further help on what each of these sections contains is available elsewhere on the website.   There are also some examples of previous reports available on the site.

The entire document should be submitted to me (tyson@chem.umass.edu) as a Microsoft Word file.  I will convert this to a pdf file and post on the website.  The site will not disappear after the end of the semester.

Each participant needs to submit (by e-mail) a confidential, signed (put your name and student ID# at the bottom) memorandum to me in which you explain (a) what your role in your group activities has been, and (b) what the contributions of all the other undergraduate student members of the group have been.  List each student by name and explain what he or she did (or did not) do.  

Each participant needs to submit (by e-mail) a completed evaluative questionnaire about the overall activity, together with some suggestions for how you think the experience could be improved.  Indicate whether you would be interested in participating again at some future stage and what the format of any such participation might be. 

I do not plan to try to be discriminating in the grading other than as follows: 

Full credit (A):  a good faith effort to participate, taking a fair share of the workload, meeting with other members of the group, willing to cooperate, completion of the requirements outlined above together with the submission of any intermediate stage reports.

Less than full credit (B): less than full participation as defined by other members of the group,

Even less (C):  minimal participation (as defined by other members of the group), uncooperative (as defined by other members of the group),

INC:  no participation at all or failure to submit one of the three required documents (group report, individual report and completed questionnaire). Failure to submit one of the three documents (background paper, measurement paper and proposal)