Term Paper Format
Format for Term Papers
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Below are some links and a general outline on how to write your term papers. Depending on your topic you may want to rely on the scientific report style or literature review styles, or a combination of the two. The choice is yours. Links to these styles can be accessed by the buttons below. Below the three buttons I outline the scientific report style. More details can be found by clicking the scientific format button below. Click here for how to write a reseach paper Click here to gain a more detailed view of the scientific report format described below or, Click here to gain a description of how to write a literature review
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Format for a Scientific Report
Abstract
Short (three-quarters of a page) description of the paper. Describe what the issue or problem is, why it is important or interesting, and your findings
Introduction
• What is the issue or problem?
• Literature review: what is current thinking, findings, and approaches on the problem?
• What is the significance of the problem?
• How do you plan to deal with the problem? What is your solution?
Methods
• How did you search for information or data on the topic?
• What is your impression of the ulility, relevance, or quality of the data you collected?
• What special steps did you take to select or utilize the data?
Results
• What are your findings?
• Are their problems with your findings in terms of answering the questions posed in the introduction?
Discussion
• What do your observations mean?
• Summarize the most important findings.
• What conclusions can you draw?
• How do your results fit into a broader