Report Writing

  1. TSJC 2005-2006 Student Handbook, pg 28 states:
    "Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated and is grounds for compulsory withdrawal, suspension, or disenrollment. ...
    Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, "cheating" and "plagiarism." ...
    "Plagiarizing" means intentionally presenting the words or ideas of others as if they were the student's own, or unintentionally presenting them as such without proper attributions.

    Therefore, you must reference all sources, even if you paraphrase.
  2. I have assumed that all report problems are a result of misunderstanding, so the first report will be accepted no later than Friday, April 7 for full credit. These reports can be on any physics topic (best to check with me first).
  3. The second problem is that almost none of the reports conformed to the actual assignment, so the second report for the semester will be a written report due Friday, May 5, 2006.

Second Written Report for PHY 105

The second written report will be due Friday, May 5. This report must based principally on a single source written by a scientist. Your paper must also reference at least one source from a peer-reviewed journal. You may use one of the following sources or any other original scientific work (with prior approval of instructor) for your primary source.

The structure of the report is to be three parts as specified by this grading rubric. I have written a sample report on one of Einstein's 1905 papers, "On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light".

Articles from Scientific American

Finding Articles from Peer-Reviewed Journals

If you want to make a peer-reviewed article your primary source, you will have to order it through the library and that takes a couple of weeks.

You can glean a fair amount from the abstracts if you read them carefully and do a bit of internet research (wikipedia and hyperphysics are good general information sources).

Books in TSJC Library