BIOL5359 World Changers Precision Medicine Seminar Series Essay Guidelines

BIOL5359 – World Changers: Precision Medicine Seminar Series Essay Guidelines

 Assessment Overview

• You will write a structured essay relating to one seminar topic:
  • Write a short critical literature review of the topic and outline what the future directions might be in that field with respect to precision medicine

• The essay contributes to 75% of the overall grade for this course.

• The essay should be approximately 1500 words and should contain around 20 correctly cited references.

The essay should take the following structure:

Formative Feedback

• You will have the opportunity to receive formative feedback regarding any questions relating to the essay assessment prior to submission of the summative entry at the designated q+a session.

Summative Assessment Deadline

• Students should submit their summative essay by Monday 28^thMarch 2022; 10pm on Moodle.

 Plagiarism

As part of your assessments, you will sign a declaration of originality. Furthermore, all your assignments will be submitted through the plagiarism detection software, Turnitin. It is therefore essential that you familiarise yourself with University rules and regulations regarding plagiarism: 

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/senateoffice/studentcodes/plagiarism/ 

For further guidance and support regarding plagiarism, how to avoid it and use of Turnitin, please refer to the Learning Enhancement and Academic Development Service (LEADS).

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/leads/students/plagiarism/howtoavoidplagiarism/

For guidance and support regarding academic writing, please refer to the Academic Writing Skills Programme which is run by LEADS.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/leads/awsp/forstudents/ 

For any concerns regarding plagiarism, please contact a member of teaching staff for the course.