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Overview
The culminating written assignment for Module 3 will be relatively informal. You should continue to strive for clear writing and thorough explanations, but you do not have to provide as much context as you did in the previous written assignments. You can assume your reader is highly familiar with your field of study.
Our purpose in asking you to write this mini-report is three-fold:
- to include some accountability for understanding the M3 material
- to teach another form of written scientific communication similar
- to give you one more opportunity to practice your construction and communication of a scientific argument
Logistics
You will complete this assignment in partners.
As you prepare your assignment be sure to review the resources provided on the Communication tab.
Please submit your completed Mini-report on Monday, December 9th by 10 pm to Stellar, with filename TeamColor_LabSection_MR.doc (for example, Green_TR_MR.doc).
Formatting and length guidelines
The entire report text should be about 2 pages, 3 pages at the most, not counting the figures. The figures/captions may be submitted separately.
You should introduce your investigation in 1-2 paragraphs. You can assume familiarity with the small molecule microarray (SMM) method in general on the part of the reader, and thus provide only a brief description then immediately "zoom in" on specific question(s) you were trying to address. Be sure to cite relevant publications.
For the remainder of the assignment, summarize and interpret the class-wide findings and briefly suggest future work. What was separated as Results and Discussion in the Research article should be combined (as in the Data summary, but with complete sentences). The Methods section will be omitted; however, the figure captions and/or main text should include any methodological details unique to your experiment that are necessary to understand the data shown. Finally, you do not need to write an abstract, but should include a concise and informative title.
Figure(s):
- DSF figure and / or table
- Use the data generated by previous students to craft a figure showing the results relevant to your research question / project.
- Do NOT copy the figure from the wiki!
- Western blot images
- Do the data support your hypothesis?
- Are the data consistent with the DSF results generated by previous students?
Guiding questions for your discussion:
- If the results of the DSF and CETSA experiments are inconsistent, what might account for this?
- What technical changes might you incorporate into the experiment if you were to repeat it? Is there reason to believe that this change would lead to a different result? Why?
- What is the next step given the results of your experiment?
Evaluation
Content | Approximate Worth | Criteria |
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Background and Approach | 25% |
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Results and Interpretation of Data | 50% |
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Contextualizing Results and Suggestions for Future Work | 25% |
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