Proposal

“Research Proposal”

Being a biochemistry major through even just this freshman year has made me propose the question of how writing works in my field and how they communicate as well. There is a lot of crossover with biology and chemistry in this, as the writing in those fields is almost exactly the same. The writing and communication for the sciences can almost all have the same categories of communication. The way that I plan to attack this problem is through the normal 5 paragraph style. I will incorporate three main body paragraphs.

The first main body paragraph will be about one style of how writing in my field works and specifically lab design/procedure. Designing labs is one way that scientists need to write with precise detail so that the results they find can be validated. If you have a well-designed lab and it is free of any flaw and error then the findings you obtain can help prove or reject your hypothesis. I will be putting 3-5 sources into this section. This paragraph is the first style I was exposed to so far as an ISU student.

The second type of writing that I encountered as a student here was lab reports. It is very important in the science world to get the results that they need. It is even more important to be able to take the results that you acquired from your lab and be able to organize the data thoughtfully and effectively to accurately describe and convince others that your findings are important and also correct. This is a key piece of writing for science and I will again be using 3-5 sources for this paragraph and the last body paragraph.

For my final paragraph of the body, it will consist of how scientists communicate and how they have communicated to gain further knowledge and draw new conclusions as well. Collaborating with other scientists can be key to your research. I plan on using some classical experiments as examples and will also, give a good example of a more recent way in which researchers have communicated to make new discoveries. I also want to note here that this way of collaboration is pivotal to almost any science-based major.

As far as everything else other than the body, I plan on going about my introduction and conclusion just as would be normally made with a thesis and map in the introduction, and a re-stated thesis in the conclusion.