Final Project Math 403 2019

General Guidelines:

A. Important Reminder: Data must not be generated by you by means of surveys, questionnaires
and experiments. They must be already available on the internet or offices just waiting for you to
analyze them.
B. Template can be downloaded in this link:
http://www.irciest.com.ph/Participation/SubmissionProcess.html . Find “Full Paper Format”.
C. References must be cited using APA 6th Edition Style. Example: Citations where a) authors were
not mentioned is highlighted in yellow, b) multiple papers were cited is highlighted in green, c)
author was mentioned in the sentence is highlighted in pink, and d) it is located in the middle of
the sentence is highlighted in orange, shown below.
 D. Below are the parts of the paper and the guidelines to each part:

Introduction

 Description of the problem, background/importance of the study

 Review of Literature: the researches already done around your topic, and the gaps you’ve seen
that led you to work on your said topic
 State where you get your data, why they are needed to be analyzed

Objectives

Main objective and specific objectives

1. Specific objectives must be in numbered list

2. Must be SMART

Methods

 What data analysis tools did you use?

 Why did you use those tools? (Maybe you can find this in the definition of the said tool)

Results and Discussion

i. Graphs and/or tables summarizing the output of data analysis tools

ii. Discussion/analysis of i. and its implications
iii. How will your analysis contribute to the pool of CE knowledge?

Conclusions

 State the answer to the main objective/research question

 Must be parallel to and must answer your specific objectives
 Highlight the new knowledge you have contributed

References

 Must be APA 6th Edition Style

 All enumerated in this part must be seen cited inside the paper.
 All pertinent information must be listed. Tip: you can check “Manage Sources”, “New…” and
“Create Source” in Microsoft Word to know the needed information per type of source e.g.
book, electronic source.
 Example of format is shown below:

Hill and Kolb. (2012). Chemistry for Changing Times (13th ed.). Prentice Hall.

Nakasaki, D. et al. (2015). Composting of food waste subjected to hydrothermal

pretreatment and inoculated with Paecilomyces sp. FA13. Bioresource Technology.

U.S Environmental Protection Agency. (2004). Evaluation Report: Nationwide

Identification of Hardrock Mining Sites. Office of the Inspector General: Report 2004-P-
00005.

Vasilis M. Fthenakis; Hyung Chul Kim; Erik Alsema. (2008). Emissions from Photovoltaic
Life Cycles. Environ. Sci. Technol., 42.