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For your practical application this week, we will look into an actual scientific study- the field studies of T. Scott SilIett on pages 230 and 231 of your text. After reading about and understanding what Sillett did, you will write a scientific paper describing the field study. For this assignment, imagine that you did the work, and you are preparing a manuscript to submit to a scientific journal for publication. Don’t say things like “Sillett said this” or “Sillett did that”; rather pretend that you did the work, and you are the only author. Write in third person, e.g., it was done; the data reveals; it may be concluded that…. etc. We will follow one of the most common manuscript styles that is used by many scientific journals. Divide your paper into the following sections and type the section names in bold (as I have done) at the beginning of each section.
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Title: Make up a descriptive title appropriate for an experiment producing the data in Figure 3.
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Author: Your name (not Sillett- we are pretending that you are the researcher)
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Abstract: An abstract is a mini-summary of the paper in a few sentences.
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Introduction: In the Introduction you introduce background information leading up to this experiment and the reason for doing the experiment.
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. Methods: In the methods you describe how you did the experiment.
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. Results: Your results are as in Figure 3, page 231 of your text. These will be your actual results. Include a photo of the graph in Figure 3 in your paper. If you don’t already have a screen capture app on your computer, you can take a picture with your phone, send it to yourself, and insert it in your Word doc or you can download a free screen snip app from Microsoft.com.
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Discussion: Here you discuss your results explaining what the data mean, the significance of the data, conclusions, and where you might go from here.
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References: In standard APA style.
You can look at the instructions in Week 1 and in the syllabus for what to submit and what is expected. It is okay to work in groups if you like, to discuss with friends, or do the work alone as you prefer, but you should write up your own paper for submission.
