Description: Final Project

Due Dates:
Oct 18, first proposal. For guidelines on how to write the proposal, see ?? in Chapter ??.
Oct 25, revised proposal, if project or design have changed.
Nov 15 , first draft. Bring two copies of the draft, one for instructors, and one for your inquiry grading partner. Please do not staple the papers. Any extensions desired for this draft must be negotiated with your inquiry grading partner.
Final Exam Day, final draft
Final Exam Day, oral presentation of project

Guidelines:
Please type your report
Use paper clips but not staples.
Print and copy on one side of the page and use standard–weight letter–sized paper.
Put your name in the header of each document so that it appears on each page, and number pages.

Purpose: Carry out final project, incorporating skills gained during class.

Background: You have carried out a number of inquiries of different types during the semester. Your goal is now to combine the skills gained in these different inquiries into a final project. These projects begin with curiosity, proceed with experimental design and taking of data, continue with statistical analysis andmodeling, and the
ability to access the scientific literature. You now should combine what you have been learning in a final project.

Length: 5 – 10 typed pages. It is generally not a problem to exceed this length.
Report: Please include the following sections
1. Title.
2. Abstract.
3. Introduction.
4. Experimental design.
5. Analysis, including an appropriate statistical treatment of the data.
6. Conclusions.
7. References. You should make use of the peer–reviewed literature as appropriate.
8. Data either in the body of the report, or as an appendix

Comments:
1. You have signed up for credit in Physics, Chemistry, or Biology, and you must carry out a final project relevant to the discipline for which you have signed up. If you want to carry out a project in Earth Sciences, please contact the instructors.
2. It is best if you design a project that can be carried out in Painter 4.14 so that instructors can check your progress each week. If your project is carried out in another space, it is particularly important that you check in with the instructors every week during lab.

Grading: This inquiry will be evaluated according to the Inquiry 4 grading checklist. The instructors will grade the first draft by checking that you have made a good faith effort to complete the major sections of the report. The peer grade of your draft will not enter directly into your grade, but it will play a role in the grade of your final writeup.
Your final draft will be evaluated attentively. Instructors will pay particular attention to whether corrections suggested by your grading partner on the first draft have been implemented in the final writeup. Your final grade will depend upon taking seriously your partner’s suggestions. More specifically, for entries in the Grading Checklist
where your partner has made valid and reasonable suggestions for change, if you do not make these changes in the final draft, you will get no credit. Note that your final inquiry writeup need not be accepted if you have not submitted a draft on time, or have
not delivered a presentation, or have not graded your partner’s inquiry.