Few will be able to complete the necessary lab or research work in a single semester unless they have been working closely with their advisor on other projects during their junior year or unless the project is a small subtask of the advisor s research. As with the library-based thesis, the student should produce intermediate products. All should present a project proposal describing the thesis, a research plan that describes how the work will be done, and a draft of the paper. Students who are taking HONR 198 for two semesters should prepare a summary report of intermediate results. Again, these projects should be strictly limited in size.
Few students can do large projects or write long papers of high quality.
However, in these cases, it is difficult to constrain the projects by limiting the length of the paper. A full-length complete draft for the advisor to read and correct. In the two semester thesis, most professors assign a grade based on the trial paper and annotated bibliography. A full-length complete draft for the advisor to read and correct. However, the students will need to prepare written plans for the semester and be able to demonstrate intermediate work for criticism.