2- Physiology Paper

Physiology Paper Assignment 60 pts Your assignment is to write a paper regarding any subject pertaining to physiology. You can write about vitamin supplements, how multiple sclerosis affects the body, a blood disorder, or just about anything as long as it relates to human physiology. This assignment will be a semester-long work-in-progress assignment that you will start in the beginning of the semester, edit throughout the semester and hand in during finals week. As you go through each requirement be sure you have the appropriate people sign off on the assignment and hand this piece of paper in with your final revised physiology paper. Requirements of the assignment: 1. First, you need to pick a topic that is interesting to you and applies to your life and give a 3-4 sentence synopsis of what the paper will be about. Due (5 points) 2. Submit sources for your paper by. You need five journal articles plus three additional sources for your paper. Scan and submit front page of each source. You must use 8 sources (minimum) in your paper (5 points) 3. Write a rough draft of your paper and have 3 classmates proof-read and review it. The review should rank the following categories on a scale of 1-5 (5 is the best): a. Choice of Topic: Is topic appropriate for physiology? b. Organization/Clarity: Is the paper organized to allow for easy reading and understanding c. Citations: Are sources properly cited. d. Summary statement: summarize the paper in approximately 3-4 sentences. Submit reviews by (10 points) with names of reviewers 4. Submit final Paper by (40 points) Physiology Paper Guidelines: • The paper must be four pages in length, written in APA format, and in the first paragraph you need to talk about why you chose your specific topic. (10 pts) • You must use five sources from scientific peer reviewed journals (ie. American Journal of Nursing, Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, American Journal of Medical Science) and three other valid sources (magazines, newspapers, and Wikipedia are not valid sources to use) in your paper. (5 pts) • Format of paper: You cannot use direct quotes or written material from literature. You must cite ideas that are not your own in your paper. To get an idea of how to cite other peoples work in your paper look at the scientific journal articles you have picked to use for your paper. Typically, you state the ideas from the paper in your own words and you put the author’s name behind the quote and the date in parentheses (not the page number) (5 pts) An example of how to cite research in your paper: Two distinct muscle fiber types are found within the myotomal muscle in most shark species: fast glycolytic, white muscle (WM) fibers and slow oxidative, or red, muscle (RM) fibers (Bone 1988). There is a distinct division of labor between these two fiber types, which can be distinguished based on mitochondrial density, vascularization, and metabolic enzyme activities (Johnston 1981; Bone 1988; Curtin and Woledge 1993a, 1993b, 1996). • You must have a literature-cited page at the end of the paper that lists all of the literature you used in the paper. You should put the authors’ names in alphabetical order with the date of the publication in parentheses, then the title of the paper or book and the volume and the article page numbers. An example of a Literature Cited Page: Attwood, P. V., and Geeves, M. A. (2002). Changes in catalytic activity and association state of pyruvate carboxylase which are dependent on enzyme concentration. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 401, 63-72. • Some websites that have free access to journals: www.doaj.org/ www.plosbiology.org/home.action www.nlm.nih.gov/ Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www.jci.org/ American Family Physician http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/journals/afp.html Google Scholar