literature outline and research paper

Yennys@

BSC2011LLiteratureReviewOutline.docx

Home >Biology homework help >literature outline and research paper

Literature Review Outline

Outline base on this topic:

“ A comparative study of feeding mechanisms between dragonflies and praying mantis”

· Worth 7.5% of your final grade in the class.

· See the schedule on Canvas for due date.

· Comprised of 3 components:

1. Cover page

2. Outline

3. Annotated Bibliography

Cover Page

· Your topic in the form of a descriptive title o Include the common name and scientific names for both of your organisms

· Your name

· Panther ID

· Section number

· TA name

Outline

· Should be 2-3 pages long, double-spaced.

· 1” margins, size 12 font, Times New Roman

· Organize your subtopics to ensure that they flow well. You should not be jumping from one topic to the next.

· Your first two subtopics should be dedicated to background information in the two organisms that you chose. o In this section, you will write about everything on your organism EXCEPT what your topic is on.

▪ For example, if you’re talking about the perch’s respiratory system, in the background section you can briefly talk about their anatomy, diet, environment, etc.

· These two background subtopics should only be 1 page at most.

· The rest of the outline should have subtopics based on your original topic. This is where you will break up your topic into further subtopics to better organize it. This is one of the most important parts of your paper – how you organize the information about your topic.

· You must title each of your subtopics. o You should have at least 7-8 subtopics within your outline (including introduction and conclusion).

· Each subtopic must be accompanied by 4-5 paraphrased facts about that subtopic.

· Your facts should be bulleted, not in paragraph form.

· After each fact, you must put in an in-text citation demonstrating which source that information came from. o In-text citation is generally (Author’s Last Name, Year). Please see APA guidelines for more details.

· Do not just copy and paste facts into your outline. PARAPHRASE.

· You will be submitting your outline to turnitin.com to check for plagiarism. o ANY amount of plagiarism will result in a grade of zero.

· When writing your outline, think of it as if you were writing your paper but without structuring it into paragraphs.

· Page 3 of this document has an example of an outline. You CANNOT use this example.

Annotated Bibliography

· APA format

· Guidelines to APA can be found here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

▪ NO encyclopedias

○ ex. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences via Wiley Interscience

▪ NO Wikipedia ▪ NO websites

○ The only exception to this is if you sent the link to your TA for approval beforehand

· List your sources in alphabetical order by author’s last name.

· Must have at least 10 sources o 5 sources must be peer-reviewed or primary journal articles.

· 5 sources can either be journal articles, books, or textbooks.

· You will list your 10 sources as you would in an APA bibliography but under each source you must include an annotation. o An annotation is a critique of the sources, NOT a summary (abstract). There are meant for you to justify the use of this source in your paper.You must write your own annotations for each source.

· Each annotation should be about a paragraph long.

· Your annotations should answer the following:

▪ Did the author do a good or bad job in explaining the topic?

▪ How is this reference relevant to your topic?

▪ How are you incorporating/using this reference in your paper? Be specific.

· Helpful websites on how to write an Annotated Bibliography:

▪ http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography

▪ http://guides.library.ucsc.edu/write-an-annotated-bibliography

“Paper”

Literature Review Instructions

General Guidelines:

· 5 pages (this does NOT include the cover page or the annotated bibliography). ○ If you go a little over 5 pages, that’s okay.

· Use APA format for your paper. Below are websites to help you write an APA paper. Note: you do not need to have an abstract for your paper.

1 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/

○ http://www.easybib.com/guides/students/writing-guide/iv-write/a-formatting/apa-paper-f ormatting/

· Double spaced

· Font size 12

1 Times New Roman

· 1 inch margins

· Number your pages

· Please have a cover page with your name, BSC2011L, your section, TA name, date, and title of your paper.

1 Make sure to include the scientific names as well as the common names of your organisms.

■ Make sure to capitalize and italicize the Genus names and italicize the species names on your cover page and throughout your paper.

■ Ex. Correct: Homo sapiens or H. sapiens (after first mention).

Incorrect: Homo sapiens, homo sapiens, Homo Sapiens, Homo Sapiens, homo sapiens, etc.

· You are basically converting your outline into paragraph form and adding more detail to make your 5 page paper.

· Remember that paragraphs are generally 5-8 sentences. Do NOT make a paragraph a whole page long! Break it up.

· If you’re going to include a picture in your literature review, that’s fine. But the pictures must go on a separate page at the end of the paper and should be labeled as “Figure X. Title.” Any figures added need to be referred to in the text. Do NOT place the figures within your 5 pages of writing.

1 Ex. You could have a figure called “Figure 1. Angiosperm Life Cycle” and in the text when you need to refer to the figure you may write “According to the life cycle of the flower, it goes from being...as in Figure 1.”

· Make sure you cite everything that you paraphrase.

1 Every source that is in your annotated bibliography should be cited at least twice in your actual paper.

■ In-text citations should (generally) be as follows: (Author’s Last Name, Year).

· If there are 2 authors, cite as: (Last Name 1 and Last Name 2, Year).

· If there are more than 2 authors, cite as (Author’s Last Name et al., Year).

· There are NO QUOTES ALLOWED! Everything must be paraphrased!

· If you have taken this class before, you CANNOT resubmit the same paper! You will need to pick another topic.

· Make sure that you use the right forms of theirs, there’s, its, it’s, etc.

· Make sure that everything is organized and that it flows. Don’t jump around in what you are talking about.

· Remember, this is not an essay paper. It’s a RESEARCH paper you did on your organisms so you will not be using the words “I” or “you” anywhere in the paper (aside from the annotations).

Annotated Bibliography:

· APA style

· Make sure sure have a minimum of 10 references, 5 of which MUST be journals. The other 5 can be more journals and/or books, textbooks, articles.

· NO WEBPAGES ALLOWED!

1 The only exception to this is if you sent the link to your TA for approval beforehand.

· NO ENCYCLOPEDIAS/WIKIPEDIA ALLOWED!

· NO JOURNAL ARTICLES FROM THE FOLLOWING DATABASES ARE ALLOWED:

1 Encyclopedia of Life Sciences via Wiley Interscience

· References must be listed alphabetically by primary author’s last name.

· Don’t number or bullet your references

· If a citation runs on multiple lines make sure the second and third line, etc. are indented.

· Are the annotations done correctly? They should be a paragraph long. You are NOT supposed to summarize the source (that would be an abstract). In an annotation, you should answer the following questions:

1 Critique the source/author

○ How is the source relevant to your paper?

○ How are you incorporating the source into your paper?

· Your TA should easily be able to match your references in your in-text citations with your annotated bibliography.

Example:

Topic: The respiratory system: How it evolved from perch (Perca flavescens) to pigeon (Columba livia)