Title of Your Research Project

1. Title of Your Research Project Your Name Faculty Advisor: Advisor Name Department of x, University of California, Santa Barbara Introduction Methods Present the question being explored by your research, place it in the context of current knowledge about the topic, and convince the reader of the significance of your study. Describe your methods in sufficient detail to allow a reader who works in your field to understand how you collected your data. Illustrations are appropriate for complex experimental design, etc. Results Summarize the results of your research, whether positive or negative; use key results to confirm your message; graphs, charts, and figures can help visually articulate these results Discussion Interpret the meaning of your results with respect to the original questions, including your conclusions about the answers to the questions that motivated your research that you described in the introduction. If appropriate, mention any alternative explanation for your results and mention possible explanations for unexpected results. Acknowledgements Thank you to my faculty advisor for providing invaluable guidance throughout the research process. Partial funding for the project came from the National Science Foundation. Literature Cited Bender, D.J. and R.M. Brigham. 1996. Lunar condition influences coyote (Canislatrans) howling. American Midland Naturalist 136:413-417. Brooks, L.D. 1988. The evolution of recombination rates. Pages 87-105 in The Evolution of Sex, edited by R.E. Michod and B.R. Levin. Sinauer, Scott, E.C. 2005. Evolution vs. Creationism: an Introduction. University of California Press, Berkeley. For further information Please contact yourname@umail.ucsb.edu. More information about this and related projects is available at: general lab website