Write a 10 – 15 pages paper (double-spaced) on the topic

The aim of your term paper is to explain the research study or studies:
• what questions were asked
• what was the experimental approach
• what were the results and what do the results mean?
Start with a background to the field: what was previously known, what were the authors of the study trying to find out, and why is this interesting?

Next, go through the main experiments. Rather than including a separate Methods section, with detailed descriptions of the experimental procedures, followed by a Results section, you should describe each experiment separately. For each experiment, as shown by a figure or table in the research paper, answer the following questions:

• What question was the experiment designed to answer?
• What was the experimental procedure? What kind of information (e.g. mRNA levels, enzyme activity, protein binding interactions) does the procedure give?
• What were the results of the experiment?
• What do the results mean?

Outline the experimental design, describing the techniques briefly; don’t include the details of the methods. Show the results, in the form of figures and tables. Finally, discuss what new information was obtained as a result of the experiments; were the original questions answered, and what new questions do the results pose?

Wrap up your term paper by giving an overview of the experiments. What new information did the researchers present? Did they answer their original questions, support their hypothesis? What are their overall conclusions from this study?

You should cite relevant sources in your text and include a list of references at the end of your term paper. See the style guides for references and figures for details on how to include these.

Write a 10 – 15 pages paper (double-spaced) on the topic The aim...