Introduction DONE!
Dec. 2nd, 2007 12:08 amSo three hours since my last post, I've finally finished the damned introduction. I was right -- it really did take a long time to write this out. I think it's because you're outlining the main idea in detail in the introduction and thus, you're trying to get it perfect whereas your abstract is outlining your whole paper in much more vague terms so it makes it easier (although, I remember that abstract taking me a while to finish as well).
I'm hoping to god the body will much easier to write as I have three nice questions to answer as part of my outline and thus, I have some idea of what I want to say in each of them. If the body is supposed to be at least six pages long, then it'll be about two pages devoted to each question. Six more pages will get me onto page ten and with one more page devoted to the conclusion and future directions, I'll have me a solid 11 page paper. Add in a couple of figures/tables and I'm bound to reach the required limit. ^^ That'll be tomorrow's work though.
Okay, I'm off to explain how naked DNA might not necessarily degrade in a soil environment by binding to clay and despite that, still retain enough activity to transform bacterial cells. Sounds interesting, right? I swear, when I picked interkingdom HGT as my topic, it seemed a lot more fun. I guess finding out that it has a fat chance in hell of actually happening at any meaningful levels kinda takes the steam out of things...
I'm hoping to god the body will much easier to write as I have three nice questions to answer as part of my outline and thus, I have some idea of what I want to say in each of them. If the body is supposed to be at least six pages long, then it'll be about two pages devoted to each question. Six more pages will get me onto page ten and with one more page devoted to the conclusion and future directions, I'll have me a solid 11 page paper. Add in a couple of figures/tables and I'm bound to reach the required limit. ^^ That'll be tomorrow's work though.
Okay, I'm off to explain how naked DNA might not necessarily degrade in a soil environment by binding to clay and despite that, still retain enough activity to transform bacterial cells. Sounds interesting, right? I swear, when I picked interkingdom HGT as my topic, it seemed a lot more fun. I guess finding out that it has a fat chance in hell of actually happening at any meaningful levels kinda takes the steam out of things...