Submit a review article. (oral microbiome and chronic diseases) When you write about scientific topics to specialists in a particular scientific field, we call that scientific writing. When you write to

non-specialists about scientific topics, we call that science writing. Your audience are your peers and the instructor, all of us are biologist, so you are doing scientific writing. Keep your audience in mind, your paper needs to go explore the topics deep, at a level of a biologist. However, while we all here are biologist, we are not experts on the particular topic that you have chosen, so you need to keep that in mind too and provide clear explanations for concepts and terms that may be too specialized. Review of the Literature A review of the literature is a synthesis of what is known, or being investigated, about a topic. It is not a regurgitation of the information presented in the articles (e.g., a list) but rather an opportunity for you to read many articles, integrate the information and create your own review of current findings in your chosen area of research. The text of your paper must be properly referenced. At the end, you may deliver your own analysis, interpretation and insight regarding the topic. It is this synthesis of information and ideas that distinguishes an 'A' paper from a 'B' or 'C' paper. If you need help, please see me with enough advance notice to do a good job. Criteria Write a 7-9 page research paper based on scientific literature. About 5-7 pages of text and 2-4 pages of figures and references. See the attached guide on tips for writing your paper. 12pt font, 1.5 line-spaced, submit using the Turnitin link provided here on Canvas on the due date. Late submissions lose 5% per day it is late. You are by no means allowed to recycle a paper you wrote for another class. If you do, this will count as a zero. This is to be an original piece of work. Plagiarism Policy: Plagiarism is a serious offense to the University Code of Conduct and it will not be tolerated in this course. If plagiarism is detected in any submission, you will not receive any credit for that assignment and it will be subject to an Academic Misconduct investigation. Please see here what is plagiarism and how to avoid it. You must use a minimum of 10 citations of which, at least 7 should be primary literature articles and possibly 2-3 review papers for deeper understanding. Your final submission will include the paper (properly referenced within the text) and a list of references./nYour review paper should contain the following elements: Title--The title should inform the reader about the subject and what aspect of the subject was studied. The title should also sound interesting so that the reader would want to read the entire paper. This may be the last thing you write or rewrite in your paper. After writing the body of the paper, come back to the title and adjust it so that it clearly reflects the main point of your paper. Abstract--summary of paper: The main reason for the study, the primary findings, the main conclusions. You will also need to readjust your abstract after completing the paper to ensure that the main point from your paper and the scope are still reflected on the abstract. See guide here on how to write an abstract. Introduction--why the study was undertaken. The introduction should give background information needed for your audience to understand the main body of your paper and also provide context for why this paper is interesting and relevant. The final paragraph of the introduction should state the main goal of your paper and summarize your main finding. Three sections (Main Body) --what was found. This part should have at least three (3) separate sections. You won't name this Main Body, instead, each section should have it's own heading. The heading for each section should describe what main topic of that section is. You need to think carefully about how to best organize the information into these sections and within each section. You need to think which order would make the most sense for your readers. Usually, a good flow starts with information that is more familiar to the reader or more general and then goes into more specific. You also need to organize the paragraphs so that each paragraph covers only one subtopic. Organize the information in each paragraph also from broad to specific. Conclusion--why these findings are interesting and what are the implications for the field (what the reasons might be for the patterns found or not found). You can also indicate where is the field going from here, what future research in this field is heading to. References--where the information from your paper came from. Every reference listed here must be also cited in-text and every citation in the text needs to be listed here. Please see this guide on how to format your references. Figures & tables--show us the data. You can have all the figures and tables listed at the end or embedded throughout the text. Either way, each figure and table needs to be numbered, the number sequence is separate for figures and tables (Fig.1, Fig. 2, Table 1, Table 2). They each need a caption. Every figure and table needs to be referenced in-text by their number. This is how you tell the reader when to look at each figure or table.