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Term Paper Format Guidelines

This document provides guidance on formatting a term paper and outlines the scientific report style. It includes links for learning how to write a research paper or literature review. The scientific report style involves an abstract, introduction with background on the issue and literature review, methods section describing how information was collected, results of findings, and a discussion interpreting the observations and conclusions that can be drawn.

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Term Paper Format Guidelines

This document provides guidance on formatting a term paper and outlines the scientific report style. It includes links for learning how to write a research paper or literature review. The scientific report style involves an abstract, introduction with background on the issue and literature review, methods section describing how information was collected, results of findings, and a discussion interpreting the observations and conclusions that can be drawn.

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Term Paper Format

Format for Term Papers

Below are some links and a general outline on how to write your term papers.
Depending on your topic you may want to rely on the scientific report style or literature
review styles, or a combination of the two. The choice is yours. Links to these styles
can be accessed by the buttons below. Below the three buttons I outline the scientific
report style. More details can be found by clicking the scientific format button below.

Click here for how to write a reseach paper

Click here to gain a more detailed view of the scientific report format described
below, or

Click here to gain a description of how to write a literature review

Format for a Scientific Report

Abstract
Short (three-quarters of a page) description of the paper. Describe what the issue or problem is,
why it is important or interesting, and your findings.

Introduction
 What is the issue or problem?
 Literature review: what is current thinking, findings, and
approaches on the problem?
 What is the significance of the problem?
 How do you plan to deal with the problem? What is your
solution?

Methods
 How did you search for information or data on the topic?
 What is your impression of the ulility, relevance, or
quality of the data you collected?
 What special steps did you take to select or utilize the
data?

Results

 What are your findings?


 Are their problems with your findings in terms of
answering the questions posed in the introduction?

Discussion
 What do your observations mean?
 Summarize the most important findings.
 What conclusions can you draw?
 How do your results fit into a broader context?

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