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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Abstract
• Literature review/Annotated Bibliography
• Materials and Experiment
• Bibliography

Title Page

• Title of research
• Conference Name and year
• Researcher Name
• Research Lead and/or mentor
• Campus, EFSC
• Date in APA style
• Spaces/lines for Research lead/mentor to print, sign, and date

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Section 1: Overview Paragraph

• Write an overview paragraph discussing the six areas below. Cover the following six points, selecting subpoints as appropriate for your research. Create a long and complete paragraph. Restate the questions below as statements in the paragraph while answering them. Do not enumerate your responses. Be enthusiatic but not hyperbolic. (Any hyperbole should be pointed back at your passion) Don't say Microbiology is fascinating. Or, The MCU is amazing. Instead say, I am fascinated by the intricate complexity of microbiology, or What amazes me about the MCU is its continued trend to...)

1. Why (choose one):
   • To add to/build upon a specific lineage of research (if so, then state the research that has come before yours to which yours is connected). What does research add to that lineage of research and, if you can, suggest what other areas of research your research opens up.
   • To question and answer a specific practical aspect of a subject (If so, discuss why there is a need for such a practical answer to be found. How will that practical answer apply to some part of the world)
   • To help establish or develop a discipline of a subject area (For instance Cryptozoology is only recently a new area of academic study. Some research in cryptozoology is concerned with what exactly does the discipline include or not and how shold they research and discuss their subjects.)
2. Who:
   • Who would benefit from understanding your research
   • (professors? other researchers? students? specific geographic or class of people?)
3. How:
   • If your research is reading and analyzing ideas (such as most liberal arts research does), skip this section. Artists, scientists, and those needing to travel or work in the physical world or in a lab setting, discuss what real world processes you will use. (You will go into exact detail of materials needed on page 4; you should review that page so you can summarize that page here)
4. Results -- success:
   • By what measure of success will you measure your work?
   • (How will you know of the research's efficacy concerning the why and the who above.)
5. Results--disseminate:
   • How will your research be disseminated to others?
   • A publication in a professional journal, or presentation at an academic conference, or some other media?
6. How it helps you
   • While we can acknowledge how your research helps a discipline or some aspect of the world, how does this research (either the process or the results) help you with your own academic goals.
   
   
   
   

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   Section 2: Abstract

   The abstract of your research you will be submitting/ or already have submitted to a conference.
   
   
   

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   Section 3: Literature review or Annotated Bibliography

   • Literature review or annotated bibliography (choose one, but of course, both is fine, too)
   • Literature Review Examples
   • Annotated Bibliography Examples
   
   
   
   

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   Section 4: Bibliography

   This should be a list of all of the sources you used to understand your project, from popular to academic sources--even if you have included, above, an annotated bibliography, this bibliography needs to be here as well. It should have more listed than the AB. These "sources" may not ever be cited in a paper but they comprise where you gained your knowedge set throughout the research process.