Forensic Discipline MiniPaper

Please write a two-page paper (about 550-650 words) discussing one forensic discipline or sub-discipline.  Refer to your Readings and Discussions from Week 2 for more information about forensic disciplines.  You should do more research about your chosen discipline, writing about why that discipline interests you, what education is needed for this discipline, what types of evidence are examined under this discipline, what type of instrumentation is used in this discipline and what types of certification are available for this discipline. 

This paper will be graded heavily on grammar and English usage.  As shown in the Grading Rubric, 50% of your grade for this paper will from your content and 50% will be from your grammar and English usage. The majority of grading and feedback for this paper will be related to fundamental writing composition skills (sentence structure, verb agreement, spelling, grammar, etc.).  While this is not an English class, writing is a fundamental aspect of every job within the Investigative Forensic fields.  Therefore, this assignment should give you, as a writer, a better understanding of your writing weaknesses to help you understand where to focus your improvements.