Past 8.06 students have found that their papers improve enormously through this process. If you wish to get their help earlier than March 29, please submit your paper proposal and the name of your peer editor earlier, and one of the writing assistants will be assigned to help you.īy the time you turn in your final paper, it will have been edited by one of your peers and you will also have had time to implement the suggestions of one of the writing assistants. They are there to help you, and are good at it. Think of your writing assistant as a coach. In between, you may also ask them to help you with parts of your paper as you write them. They will critique the proposal and outline for your paper, and will also critique the first draft which you submit after it has been peer edited.
(See the schedule below.) You should arrange to meet soon thereafter, and should seek their assistance from then on as you need it. Each of you will be contacted by email by one of the writing assistants on March 29.
We have obtained resources to support four “writing assistants” who can help you with writing, editing and preparing the paper. These are the prerequisites for an effective written (or, for that matter, verbal) presentation. Presenting a topic sufficiently clearly and logically that one of your peers new to this topic can learn about it requires clarity of thought and depth of understanding. Note that writing for your peers is a much higher standard than writing for the faculty. If your peers cannot understand what you write, you have not succeeded. Liu and Rajagopal, although they are always happy to learn. Your goal is to write a paper which presents a phenomenon or problem in quantum physics in a way which communicates your ideas clearly and effectively to your fellow 8.06 students, namely to your peers. The goal of this informal and formal peer review process is to push authors to write papers which successfully communicate ideas among a community of peers. The final draft is then reviewed anonymously by one or several peers before it is accepted by a journal like the Physical Review. When a practicing physicist writes a research paper, he or she often asks a few colleagues to comment on a first draft. If you do not succeed in this, you will get a grade of Incomplete until you revise your term paper sufficiently to earn at least a C, and only at that time you will be assigned a final grade, with your term paper grade counting 20%. The grade you earn for your paper will count 20% towards your final grade in 8.06.īecause 8.06 is a CI-M ( Communication Intensive in the Major) Subject, in order to pass 8.06 you must obtain a grade of C or better on your term paper. A part of your grade will also be determined by how carefully and constructively you edited the draft of the paper for which you were the peer editor. Your papers will be graded on the intellectual quality of your work, the effectiveness of your presentation and the success of your prose style. Two weeks after the first draft is due, you will submit your final draft. This first draft will then be critiqued by a “writing assistant” (see below) and returned to you. You will submit your first draft marked up with editorial comments by your peer editor. We will also arrange a LaTeX tutorial, likely in place of sections one day in April. We will supply templates for the Revtex version of LaTeX (used by the Physical Review) so that you can prepare your paper in a finished, publishable form. Each of you will ask another student to edit your draft and will then prepare a final draft on the basis of the suggestions of your “peer editor”. Writing, editing, revising and “publishing” skills are an integral part of the project. The paper should be written in the style and format of a brief journal article and should aim at an audience of 8.06 students.
It can be based on the student’s own calculations and/or library research. The paper can explain a physical effect or further explicate ideas or problems covered in the courses. Everyone in 8.06 will be expected to research, write and “publish” a short paper on a topic related to the content of 8.05 or 8.06.
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