BIO 499: Senior Seminar
Research Paper Critique
The critique should be typed in two- and a half pages double-spaced with Time New Roman font size 12 . The critique
must include following points:

1. A Brief introduction to the topic being investigated.
2. Objective of the Study: What is(are) the purpose(s) of this study. In other words what question(s) the author(s) asked
   in this study to address what was previously unknown about the subject.
3. What are key observations/findings by other authors referenced/discussed in this article on this subject?
4. Key observations: What are the key findings/results author(s) reported in this article?.
5. What major techniques were employed: Materials and Methods/Experimental design
6. How did this work help in advancing our present understanding of the subject with regard to the previous findings.
7. What is the conclusion?
8. Give your own perspective and critical analysis – are the data convincing? What other experiments would you have
   done and why? . Speculate how the outcome may be different.
9. The last Day of submission is December 7
   th 2020* before the class. Late submissions will not be accepted and
   you could loose 0.2 mark everyday beyond the deadline.
10. All the write up has to be in your own words**.
11. Avoid copy-paste and Plagiarism is strongly discouraged