Individual Projects
Purpose of Projects: This portion of the course is intended to provide an opportunity for you to improve your skills in transmission electron microscopy while you work on your own research material. The emphasis should be on generating micrographs of high quality that may be useful to you in your thesis or dissertation research. To help you to organize the results you obtain, the following guidelines are provided.
Format: Present your results as a short paper for submission to a journal. Please use the format indicated here.
Title Page: Title, author, affiliation/address.
Abstract: Short statement of major results and significance. Two or three sentences are sufficient.
Introduction: Short statement of overview and objectives of project. Do not include an exhaustive literature review. No citations are necessary, but if you want to cite a few pertinent references, you may do so.
Methods and Materials: One or two short paragraphs on your procedures and materials.
Results/Discussion: These two sections may be presented together or separately, according to your wishes and nature of your data. Again, do not include exhaustive references to the literature.
Literature Cited: If references are cited in the text then they should be included here. If you have refereneces, be consistent in your citation format. Be sure to include all citations in the text.
Note: The purpose of the project is for you to gain additonal laboratory experience--not library research.
Figures: Set up as a plate. One is sufficient, more if you wish. Number the figures consecutively! You may prepare the plate in the conventional way or you may prepare it/them using an appropriate computer program.
Figure legends: These must be on a separate page or pages, commencing with Figure 1 and continuing on that page or those pages until you complete the legends.
NOTE: All text, including citations and figure legends, must be double spaced!
If you have any questions about these instructions, please ask for clarification.