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Research Paper Guidelines

Page address: http://www.mnsu.edu/sciencefair/school/paperguideline.html

Requirements

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Length of paper

The paper should be a minimum of 5-6 pages and a maximum of 20 pages, including appendices. Please use fonts: Times, Times New Roman or Arial, double space with 10-12 point font size.

Cover Page

The cover page states the student's name, school name and address, title of the research, grade in school, name of the advisor and category of the research. Make your title concise but also descriptive. Your title should indicate the nature of your research, not the entire content. The best titles are usually ten (10) words or less.

Abstract

An abstract of no more than 250 words must be included before the title page.

Judging

Papers will be judged solely on this year's work. Be sure that it is clear to the judges what this year's work is.

Deadline

Three (3) copies of the research paper need to be postmarked no later than January 7, 2013 OR electronic files in PDF format may be sent (to elizabeth.rorvig@mnsu.edu) to the Science Fair office no later than 9:00a.m. on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 9:00am.