From lizb@sogol.cs.colorado.edu Mon Apr 30 17:39:16 MDT 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:39:11 -0600 (MDT)
From: Liz Bradley <lizb@sogol.cs.colorado.edu>
To: rbansal@asterix.fsl.noaa.gov, saboyles@earthlink.net,
   stephanie.boyles@Colorado.EDU, levis@sogol.cs.colorado.edu,
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   Natalya.Dikovitskaya@Colorado.EDU, jonathan.fisher@Colorado.EDU,
   jgarcia@hao.ucar.edu, marianna.gnedin@ansoft.com,
   Eric.Gundersen@Colorado.EDU, Andreas.Hagen@Colorado.EDU,
   Bret.Harry@Colorado.EDU, Grover.Jones@Colorado.EDU,
   Patrick.Kellogg@Colorado.EDU, Patrick.Simek@Colorado.EDU,
   ashvin@suod.cs.colorado.edu, lizb@sogol.cs.colorado.edu
Subject: final papers
Reply-to: lizb@cs.colorado.edu

The due date is friday, 4 May, at 3pm, in my office.  I *may* be here
a bit later, but you're taking your chances.

You may also put them up on a webpage if you wish, particularly if
that allows you to link to color graphics, mpeg clips, etc., that will
enhance your presentation.  If you choose that option, just email me
the url by friday.  Please do not use any formats that are not
supported by garden-variety browser software, and let me know if your
page needs a particular flavor of browser (i.e., navigator versus
explorer).

Either way, your report must adhere to formal scientific paper
standards: abstract, introduction, body, conclusion, bibliography,
etc.  I'm sure you know the drill by now; if you don't, look in a
journal.  Here is the operative paragraph from the project details
handout:

> The final paper, due by 3pm on 4 May, should be a well-written
> formal research paper that reviews the literature, sets your work in
> context, describes your results and your findings, and explains
> what's novel and interesting about them.  This document must present
> the polished, final product of your research accurately and well,
> integrate and answer any comments and questions that were raised
> during the in-class presentation and demo, and adhere to a
> word-count limit of 3000 words, not including figure captions,
> footnotes, and embedded text formatting commands.  (Compute this,
> for example, using {\tt detex} and the unix {\tt wc} command or
> something similar.)  The word-count limit should give you some
> serious incentive to use figures to tell as much of the story as
> possible.  {\sl Scientific American} articles, for instance, are
> designed so a knowledgeable person can get their gist simply by
> looking at the figures and reading their captions.  This number is
> an upper bound, not a requirement; if you can tell your story in
> 1000 words, please do so.  

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