1. Paper Content:a. Choose a disease or medical condition that interests you. You should choose a disease or medical conditionthat has a fair amount of information written about and that also uses many of the medical terms you havebeen learning about in class.b. Thoroughly describe the disease or medical condition. Your description should include the followingcomponents:i. Explain what it is.ii. What aspect(s) of the body it affects.iii. What are the signs and symptoms exhibited?iv. Treatments (procedures, pharmaceuticals, etc.), when relevant.v. Any other relevant or interesting information.c. When writing about your topic use AS MUCH medical terminology as possible.. For example: do not write “stomach cancer” when you can use the medical term gastric adenocarcinoma.2. General format information:a. The body of your paper must be three to four pages in length. You can use an additional page for references.b. You must cite a minimum of three literature sources in CSE or APA style. The best sources will be primaryresearch papers, and these will contain the most medical terminology in them. At least one of your literature sources must be from a primary research article (an article written by the scientist that carried out the research). Avoid internet websites written for the layman (Wikipedia, science news, newspapers, etc.). You may not use your textbook.c. To find primary research literature begin with the core databases in the biology subject research guide or Google scholar. Do not pay to access any articles.3. Writing Guidelines:a. Write in a succinct and straightforward manner, in the past tense using a mostly formal tone, WITHOUTpersonal statements (i.e. I really learned a lot while researching this topic.).b. Paper must be double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins.c. Do not include any figures or pictures.d. Cite all references using the APA or CSE name-year style using both in-text citations and a bibliography atthe end of the paper.e. You must provide in-text citations of all sections that you paraphrase in your paper. Do not use directquotes in your paper (as this is not common practice in scientific writing) but rather paraphrase information in your own words and then provide an in-text citation to give credit to the source text.
