Assignment:
Project Description:
You will either be given a forensic discipline topic to research or you will be required to sign up for a topic (with a limited number of slots being available for each topic). You may not write on a topic outside of the ones provided without prior permission from your professor. Once you have your topic, you will be expected to carry out research, using outside resources. In addition to the discussion of your topic, you will be expected to find a real-life case with enough detailed information to discuss it in relation to the forensic discipline in your paper.
The sources you use for this assignment should include at least two outside sources or articles. One of your outside sources can be any of the provided classroom readings. The source(s) of your real-life case do not count towards your two outside sources. Significant amounts of information from these outside sources should be incorporated into your paper. Wikipedia is NOT an appropriate outside source for any college level paper and should not be used as an outside source in this paper.
This paper is expected to be your explanation of this particular discipline, although you are expected to incorporate and apply the course material and material from the outside sources to your forensic discipline. To show your critical thinking and that you incorporated your outside references into your paper, no more than 10% of your paper may be quotations. The majority of your paper must be written in your own words.
Make sure that you provide in-text citations throughout your paper, using APA format. Remember that for any information you receive from outside sources, whether you quote it, paraphrase it or summarize it, you must provide citations telling the reader where that outside information came from.
Your paper should contain the following items:
1. Cover/Title Page
2. Introduction
3. Body of Paper
a. Discipline Specifics to include:
- History
- Education and/or certification requirements
- Types of evidence examined
- Types of instrumentation utilized for evidence examination
b. Inclusion of a real-life case that utilized this discipline
- Discuss if the discipline assisted in providing investigative leads in solving the case
c. Analysis must incorporate information received from 2 outside sources
4. Conclusion
Format of Paper
- Times New Roman font ONLY
- 12-point font
- 900 to 1,500 words long
- 1 inch margins (you will have to change your margins if using Word 2003 or earlier)
- Double Spaced
The paper does not need an abstract. It should be in APA format, including the citations and the References.