![]() 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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