BIOLOGY 170 TERM PAPER

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Outline and Rough Draft (10 points total)

• Outline / Summary (2)
• Rough draft (4)
• Comments taken into consideration (4)

Introduction (25 points total)

• Clearly stated/described behavioral category of interest with appropriate background (10)
• Factors observed to be potentially important to specific processes being investigated (5)
• Specific question(s) being addressed (5)
• Species of study: interest, selection rationale, Genus species (5)

Experiment Proposal (25 points total)

• Detailed description of experimental methods (10)
• Appropriate selection and justification of methods, feasibility (10)
• Ability of proposed experiment to address stated hypotheses (5)

Discussion (25 points total)

• Consideration of potential results both supporting and rejecting your hypotheses (10)
• Relationship of results to the behavioral category examined (5)
• Discussion of significance of study (5)
• Directions for future research (5)

References (5 points total)

• Inclusion of at least 5 primary literature sources (2)
• Bibliography, included and properly formatted (3)

Comprehensive / discretionary points (10 points total)

• Organization (2)
• Clarity of writing and expression of ideas (6)
• Aesthetics (2)

Points off: over page limit and lateness

Total: (100 points total)