Instructions
In Module 8, you will be working on a Final Project. For the final
Instructions
In Module 8, you will be working on a Final Project. For the final project, you are required to do a literature review of a scientific journal article related to one of the following topics in Microbiology
Biofilms
Bacterial Diseases
Viral Diseases
Parasitic Diseases
Biosensors
Fungal diseases
Environmental Microbiology
In order to prepare for your final project, you will begin by writing an outline of the topic of your choice and the article that you have chosen. If you are choosing diseases, then choose only one disease of your interest in that group. For example, if you would like to focus on bacterial diseases, then choose one disease (such as Anthrax) in this group that you want to focus on.
The outline should be at least 200 words in length. Following are the instructions on how to write the outline.
Select a topic of your choice from the list above
Do a search for a primary scientific article that is related to the topic. You cannot choose a review article. It has to be a primary research article from a peer reviewed journal (greater than 3 pages long).
Write a minimum 200 word essay on the article that you have chosen. Include in your outline, an introduction to the topic, question/hypothesis that is being investigated in the article, summarize the experiment and conclusions.
Provide the full citation of the article in APA format.
The following are some helpful sources to find Microbiology peer reviewed journal articles
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
https://journals.asm.org/
https://academic.oup.com/jid
https://jcm.asm.org/
https://jb.asm.org/
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