Final Project

I am on my fifth trip this month (brutal!) -- NSF trip to D.C. to help the government allocate research grants, my apologies. I think you all are aware of the parameters of your final project, but let me detail them.

Your final paper will be 10 pages or more of double spaced text, not including figures, tables, references, abstract, etc. Your paper should roughly conform to APA style, meaning it should have a title page, an abstract (around 125 words), an introduction over viewing related research, motivating your research question, and offering predictions, a methods section discussing what you did and how you did it, a results section reporting what you found, and a discussion section reviewing what you found and what it all means (i.e., interpretation).

Additionally, you have in class presentations that begin December 5th. You will prepare a 15 minute presentation (powerpoint slides are highly recommended) which will be followed by a question and answer period. Think of your presentation as an overview of your final paper that hits the high points. Have your final paper done by December 5th (then you will be done with everything for class!). Everyone needs to be ready to present December 5th (people will randomly be called).

You really want to have all the programming and simulations for your project done by the end of class on November 28th. If not, you are going to have to put in extra time for class this week. The good news is that we don't have a final. The bad news is that you have been (or at least should have been) pushing hard on your final projects the last couple weeks. Good luck finishing up.