Academic Integrity at City Tech and CUNY Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions, and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting, and citing sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the College recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and at New York City College of Technology and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion. Homework (Laboratory) Throughout the semester there will be five (5) short homework assignments/summaries related to the laboratory experiments. Summaries should be approximately one page in length that highlights the goals of the experiment, the methodology, results and conclusions. Tables and figures may be included. These assignments are not a full laboratory report, but short summaries of the respective exercise. Thus, you are NOT required to format the summary into specific subsections. All homework assignments are due in class one week following the relevant laboratory exercise. A grade of zero will be given for any homework assignment submitted late. Grading follows the rubric below. Final Laboratory Report Students are responsible for one full laboratory report related to EITHER the genetically modified organisms (GMO) laboratory exercise, PTC exercise, or barcoding exercise. This should be formatted as a full scientific paper with the appropriate sub-headings (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion). The report should be 5-7 pages (double-spaced) exclusive of references. At least five (5) references from the primary literature should be used in the report. These generally include journal articles. Websites (including Wikipedia) and popular news articles are not acceptable. The library is an excellent resource for help performing a literature search. Be careful of plagiarism and cite appropriately. Any idea that is not your own or is not common knowledge needs an appropriate citation. Reports are due on the last day of class (Week 15) and will count as 10% of the final course grade. Grading follows the rubric below.
Academic Integrity at City Tech and CUNY Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions, and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting, and citing sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the College recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and at New York City College of Technology and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion. Final Laboratory Report Students are responsible for one full laboratory report related to EITHER the genetically modified organisms (GMO) laboratory exercise, PTC exercise, or barcoding exercise. This should be formatted as a full scientific paper with the appropriate sub-headings (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion). The report should be 5-7 pages (double-spaced) exclusive of references. At least five (5) references from the primary literature should be used in the report. These generally include journal articles. Websites (including Wikipedia) and popular news articles are not acceptable. The library is an excellent resource for help performing a literature search. Be careful of plagiarism and cite appropriately. Any idea that is not your own or is not common knowledge needs an appropriate citation. Reports are due on the last day of class (Week 15) and will count as 10% of the final course grade. Grading follows the rubric below. Homework (Laboratory) Throughout the semester there will be five (5) short homework assignments/summaries related to the laboratory experiments. Summaries should be approximately one page in length that highlights the goals of the experiment, the methodology, results and conclusions. Tables and figures may be included. These assignments are not a full laboratory report, but short summaries of the respective exercise. Thus, you are NOT required to format the summary into specific subsections. All homework assignments are due in class one week following the relevant laboratory exercise. A grade of zero will be given for any homework assignment submitted late. Grading follows the rubric below.
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