CEE Grad Seminar Paper Trade
20 CEE 705
What I watch for - and what you should watch for when reviewing traded papers:
- Well-formulated topic with clear opening paragraph describing the research topic and specific aspects to be investigated. Key concepts to be searched. Typical problem: paper starts right in talking about the subject without any lead-in.
- Relevance of concepts searched to the stated topic.
- Well-written summary of findings, synthesizing what was learned, or itemizing and describing the various references used. Discussion should follow logically from the introduction.
- Relevance of summary to the stated topic.
- Reference numbers in summary leading to citations in the list of references.
- Academic, research level material from the web search, with proper formatting.
- Complete list of references with at least one example from each source assigned. If no citation is provided for a source, description of how search was done and why there were not useful results.
- Clearly labeled references so reader can tell which came from which source.
- Name of cited author in the Science Citation Index Cited Author Search as well as the citation itself.
- Complete citations with all elements present in correct order and style. If they are sloppy, how good is the research??? Calls into question the credibility of the author.
- All citations should be findable. Check each one.
- No plagiarism - proper quoting, paraphrasing and citing.
- Independent work - not copied.
- Followed directions! Put name on paper.
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