WRITING RULES PAPER

Writing Rules Paper

Writing Rules Paper

Introduction

The main purpose of this research study is to discuss the different rules which are used for writing a research paper. A major goal of this research study is the development of effective technical writing skills. To help you become an accomplished writer, you will prepare several research papers based upon the studies completed in lab (Naomi 2000). Our research papers are not typical "lab reports." In a teaching lab a lab report might be nothing more than answers to a set of questions. Such an assignment hardly represents the kind of writing you might be doing in your eventual career.

Written and oral communications skills are probably the most universal qualities sought by graduate and professional schools as well as by employers. You alone are responsible for developing such skills to a high level. These rules are given below:

Rule 1: Paper topics:

The most important thing in choosing a paper topic is to make sure that your interest is sufficiently engaged so that you can sustain the effort necessary to produce a work that is satisfying both to you and to your instructor. See some of the papers that have been submitted in the past for an idea of a tiny fraction of possible topics (ANT 475 click here; ANT 570 click here). Be sure to do some library work the first or second week of class and then come in to see me to discuss your choice of topic. Only one person per specific topic will be allowed, so choose early(Daniel 2008).

My Opinion

In my opinion this rule is always true.

Rule 2: Bibliographic Resources:

In choosing a paper topic, it is important to do the preliminary bibliographic research to make sure that you will have enough material to write the paper you wish. For human biology, there are several important online databases that need to be consulted to find recent, appropriate journal references for your paper. You should make an exhaustive search of four of these in particular. These are available through the UA Library web site at: http://www.lib.ua.edu/resources/databases/. For an excellent introduction to doing bibliographic research at UA, see Dr. Murphy's Bibliographic Search Strategy (Jonathan 1994).

My Opinion

In my opinion this rule is always true.

Rule 3: Paper:

Failure to meet a deadline on the paper will be penalized by reducing the grade on the late element of your paper by one letter grade per weekday. Our style guide is based on the Author's Guide for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology for general formatting and for how to cite references (Gerald 2002).

My Opinion

In my opinion this rule is sometimes true

Rule 4: Formatting rules

Title page: Be sure to include a title page including the title, your name, the date, number of text pages, number of pages of references cited, and number of tables and figures.

The text of the paper, including the reference list, must be double-spaced and 12 point in size.

Margins should be one inch on all ...