Case study

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AS PER MY PROFESSOR:

The case studies normally are to be answered in paragraph/essay form and should not include the questions nor the background information. I already know what the set up is and it only serves to drive up your similarity scores when turnitin.com parses it for similarity and AI usage. You should include references and submit as .docx files.

When you answer your case studies, be sure to properly name the Microorganism, not just give me the condition. Please don’t just say respiratory infection as my response will be –“What is your causative agent?”. You need to name the suspected MO and use proper binomial nomenclature to do so. This means the Genus should be capitalized as it is a noun. The species should be lower case because it is an adjective. And the entire name should be in italics. For example, Aureococcus anafagefferens would be appropriate. After you use the MO name for the first time, you may abbreviate the genus and simply write A. anafagefferens if you wish. Alternatively, underlining the name is also accepted practice such as A. anafagefferens This is something that is a convention within biology and microbiology. Think back to your Saturday Morning Cartoon days — Looney Tunes and the Roadrunner/Coyote skits always used spoofed scientific names “Speedius maximus” or “Hungrious ravenous” when showing the roadrunner or coyote respectively. Not scientific at all but formatted correctly!

As indicated, these should be competed in your words. I can’t tell you how many times I get papers that have similarities of 70% or better and I’m told that “I did the work myself”. The hallmarks of plagiarism include the words used and the order of the words used. Paraphrasing involves the reworking of both. It’s possible to submit work, even using common terms excluding references, with 6% or less similarity. I’d like us to shoot for 30% +/- outside of the references. I”ll check them all, but when I see the yellow, oranges, and reds of your similarity reports — which you will all have access to review — it does draw ire.

References in science should be APA formatted. There’s a Cornell University guide if you wish to reference it. However, the differences in the references pages are small, the in text citations involve the year rather than the page as is the convention in MLA. I’d prefer the convention be followed but as long as you are internally consistent, it matters to me much less which you use. Since these are intended to be submitted as .docx files, and everyone gets free MS365 with your RCC technology fees, word can actually manage your references for you. There is a reference tab at the top of the program which is quite robust and can help you manage your references and build a library (exportable too) as your college career continues. There is no need to buy a program like “Endnote” to manage references any more.