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Ok guys, for those of you who were absent during my first two blog attempts.
1) Had me bitching about a girl. Thanks to YanGpaN for helping me get over it. Anyone who has problems like that should talk to him. :D
2) Had me making an appreciation thread in relation to the previous thread, except it turned into (Gay People Come Here Thread). ^^;;
Here is my third and better attempt to actually write something.
So I've written a 16 page paper about a research project I did this summer. I plan to enter it into Siemen's Westinghouse Science Competition. Mine is about bioengineering. Does anyone have any experiences with this competition/this subject matter, and can send me their research paper and/or give me advice on how to write the citations?
thanks. :D
 
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Citations for a 16-page paper should probably be footnotes or endnotes. Google for proper MLA format.
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Siemens Westinghouse Competition is a huge bitch. Ideally, you want to make yourself seem as pivotal to the actual project as much as possible, even though your role (as in, i dunno, most finallists) may have been a coffee boy. You also have to pretend to know what you're talking about (if you do know what you're talking about you'll confuse the judges).
In all seriousness, you shoulld use LaTEx. It is an awesome way to write a research paper, like making a PDF but doing it for you, just add data. Also Python is a good programming language to learn for research paper purposes.
Also, as far as projects go, winners are always a) environmental b) cure cancer c) astronomy related. So ideally relate your project to one of those three goals, regardless of whether it actually has any such influence.
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On August 22 2008 07:44 SiegeTanksandBlueGoo wrote:
Ok guys, for those of you who were absent during my first two blog attempts.
1) Had me bitching about a girl. Thanks to YanGpaN for helping me get over it. Anyone who has problems like that should talk to him. :D
2) Had me making an appreciation thread in relation to the previous thread, except it turned into (Gay People Come Here Thread). ^^;;
Here is my third and better attempt to actually write something.
So I've written a 16 page paper about a research project I did this summer. I plan to enter it into Siemen's Westinghouse Science Competition. Mine is about bioengineering. Does anyone have any experiences with this competition/this subject matter, and can send me their research paper and/or give me advice on how to write the citations?
thanks. :D
nice try buddy.
jk
Good luck man.
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Caller, not true. Don't you remember two years ago the winner of the individuals for Siemens was a guy who did a math project solving the Dirichlet problem?
A hallmate of mine from high school won the 4th place for team also with a computer science/biobricks project.
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Brennan, Patricia, and Hammen, Constance, and Herr, Nathaniel. “Current and Past Depression as Predictors of Family Functioning: A Comparison of Men and Women in a Community Sample.” Journal of Family Psychology. Vol. 21 (2007): 694-702. PsycARTICLES. 4 April 2008 <http://ft.csa.com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/ids70/resolver.php?sessid=291b7b704706 10fb0b5e31f55dea4d86&server=search1.scholarsportal.info&check=21605b08ad 1d4e3627d952fb55b78580&db=psycarticles-set- c&key=FAM%2F21%2Ffam_21_4_694&mode=pdf.>.
Greiner, Birgit, and Griffin, Joan, and Marmot, Michael, and Stansfeld, Stephen. “The Effect of Self-Reported and Observed Job Conditions on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Comparison of Theoretical Models.” Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Vol. 12 (2007): 334-349. PsycARTICLES. 4 April 2008 <http://ft.csa.com.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/ids70/resolver.php?sessid=291b7b704706 10fb0b5e31f55dea4d86&server=search1.scholarsportal.info&check=65815ef2553 8865202687a4b47243d7b&db=psycarticles-set- c&key=OCP%2F12%2Focp_12_4_334&mode=pdf>.
King, Thomas. Medicine River. Toronto: Penguin Group, 2005.
Myers, David. Psychology: Eighth Edition. New York: Worth Publishes, 2007.
This is the Works Cited page from one of my essays in University, and I never got accused of plagiarism.
You want to indent every line after the first line of every citation, don't underline "Works Cited" and make sure it has its own page. Don't cite anything you didn't cite in text. For things cited in text, you put the name of the person who wrote it, followed by the page number you found it. Paragraph number if it's an article, and where it was quoted in (qtd. in ???) if you don't have the author, or if the person who wrote it was quoting someone else.
PS: There aren't supposed to be spaces between each citation... but it's hard to format on a forum, so I've tried to make it more obvious where one ends and one begins 
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Thanks a lot for all the responses. I want to ask a pretty specific question though, for a science research project like this, which type of citations am I suppose to use. Apparently, I have to pick between Chicago Manual of Style and APA (American Psychos something). Any suggestions? Or should I just go to a journal like the Annals of Bioengineering or something and just copy it.
I've finished pretty much everything except for the god damn citations.
Thanks for the help, and uh, any suggestions on how to best relate it (catchphrases anyone?)
I can definitely relate my research to global warming and human health at the same time, so I guess I'll just pull some crazy stuff off that.
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I don't know MLA to save my life.
Thankfully, most english teachers don't either. http://www.easybib.com/ does a good job =).
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Um, I just want to get this clear. Thanks for the help and all, but MLA stands for Modern Literature something. and my report is on BIOENGINEERING. Not exactly your analysis on the Iliad. So, I can't do MLA.
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Step 1: Find a research paper.
Step 2: Copy the citation format,.
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On August 22 2008 14:50 SiegeTanksandBlueGoo wrote:
Um, I just want to get this clear. Thanks for the help and all, but MLA stands for Modern Literature something. and my report is on BIOENGINEERING. Not exactly your analysis on the Iliad. So, I can't do MLA.
uh, yes you can.
MLA is the standard format for any kind of citation, and no one is going to mark you down for using it. -_-'''
it stands for modern language association
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