RNA assignment

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Minimum of 1000 words, Maximum of 1,200 words and 15 references, no exceptions!!

i. Word count: main text and figure legends, not title, your name and references

ii. Penalty marks: -1 for 1-10 excess words

-2 for 11-20...

iii. Extra words or references

will be ignored

1,200

words

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Suggested Assignment structure:

a. Brief introduction to the field

b. Description of the results

c. Optional: figures or schematics, but do not paste figures from article

d. Discussion of the implications of the results to the field, and putative future directions

e. Own opinion and criticisms are encouraged

f. Conclusions, wrap-up

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Recommendations:

i. Read article many times

ii. Read related articles/reviews (in references)

iii. Try your best to understand the paper, discuss with other students

iv. Some concepts and experiments

will be difficult – just try your best

v. Make clear what was said in

the article vs. previous studies

vi. Focus on the main point/s

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Evaluation:

i. Marks based on effort and originality

ii. Important, main point of the article

iii. Not important if few small

results are missed, misunderstood or not discussed

iv. Big minuses:

1. Very poor English (use correctors)

2. Careless effort