ahssa- Topic: Gorilla vs Sapphire glass (Materials sceince)
- Format: abstract, introduction, material properties, comparisons, applications, processing, testing, conclusions.
- Do not include Table of Contents; not necessary for a paper that is 8 pages maximum.
- Too many quotes, “copy/paste”, not student’s work.
- Appropriate Technical content; the paper is not an infomercial with superficial content.
- Organization of paper; coherent sections, integrated paper, chunks of text with no section headings, paper is not a rough draft done at the last minute.
- Quality of research – multiple useful sources.
- Figures and tables are included, relevant to topic, formatted properly (numbered and captioned).
- Figures are discussed in text.
- References – proper format, consistent format, and cited throughout text; 5 minimum, not including course textbook.
- Approved topic, submission of term paper.
- Quality of analysis or summary.
- Interesting or informative.
- Conscientious effort is apparent in final result.
- Focus of paper is on materials and engineering.