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Where
can I see examples of past grant proposals turned in by Bio305 students?
I have many examples of grants written by previous students placed on reserve in the science library. You can also get copies from Barb Moore in the departmental office (Mateer 105). How will the grant exercise be graded? The grant exercise will be graded in a series of steps. You will have to write a series of drafts that will be evaluated by your peers and by me. Each of the evaluations made by me will have a grade but the majority of the points will be assigned to the final draft. See the syllabus for the exact point distribution. What I am looking for is a well written document that is detailed and precise about the nature of the experiments that you would like to conduct, that provides an well-written but concise background, and that briefly outlines some expected results. The writing center offers assistance with all types of writing including scientific writing, They can be reached by clicking here (http://www.wooster.edu/writing_center/). I highly recommend that you consult with them with a nearly finished product. You will find that they can give you much better advice if you have text rather than ideas or only an outline to offer them, so make sure you have done some significant written work before consulting them. Annotating sequence refers to placing information about the sequence into the sequence information itself. For example, you might indicate where the coding sequence starts, what the translated protein sequence is (placing each amino acid underneath its codon), or where introns are located. Each of these may represent things that you are not sure you fully understand; for example, you may be unsure how you identify an intron or even what an intron is. These represent questions you should write down and look up in your text book or a reference book (some are on reserve in the science library). Your assignment is to properly annotate the sequence so that you can accurately tell me what is the protein sequence that is coded for by this gene sequence. There are many options for dictionaries. The Timken Science library has several reference books that are essentially dictionaries or encylopedias for biochemistry, cell biology, and/or molecular biology. In addition, I have listed below are several on-line resources that you may find useful late at night.
Protocol books are technical manuals about how to perform certain techniques. You can use the on-line resources I have identified or use the protocol manuals we have in the lab. When you write about a technique in your grant, you should reference a book or a journal article. The on-line resources are simply to help provide background and to help clear up any questions you may have. |