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THINGS TO REMEMBER INWRITING THE SCIENCE

INVESTIGATORY PROJECT


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FORMATUse a formal font/type face and regular font size:

Tahoma, size: 11.

Use ONLY black ink

Use a plain white short bond paper.

Use 1 1/2 inch margin - top and left, 1 inch in thebottom and right side.

Chapters I-VI should be double-saced.

!ndent the beginning o" a aragrah # saces

"rom the le"t margin


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PAGINATIONage numbers should be in $rabic numerals

starting from the second page down to the last

entry of chapter VI.

age numbers are set half inch down from the

top of each page and aligned at the right hand

margin of the te!t.


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WRITING THE ABSTRACT"his paper should consist of short and

concise description of the purpose of the

study, the procedure used, the results and

conclusions. It must be contained on one

page, single #space with a ma!imum of $%&

words.


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Used Cooking Oil as an Additive

Component of CandleAst!a"t

"he study aims to produce a low-priced, high-'uality

candle by using used coo(ing oil as a ma)or

component. "he following candle compositions were

used: *&& percent paraffin wa!+ & percent paraffin

and *& percent oil+ & percent paraffin and $& percent

oil+ & percent paraffin and & percent oil+ 0& percent

paraffin and 1& percent oil+ %& percent paraffin and %&

percent oil. "he firmness, te!ture, and light intensity

of the candles were tested and compared.


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Used Cooking Oil as an Additive

Component of Candle

2esults of the tests showed that the candle made

from *&& percent paraffin wa! had the lowest meltingrate, lowest amount of melted candle, and a light

intensity of *&& candelas 3cd4. "he &:*& preparation

had the ne!t lowest melting rate and amount of

melted candle. "he other preparations ran(edaccording to the proportion of used coo(ing oil in the

candle, with the %&:%& preparation performing least

comparably with the *&& percent paraffin wa! candle.


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ASSIGN#ENT

2ead the abstract posted on the website

3www.yearchemistry.wordpress.com4.

Identify the problem, hypothesis, and

5ariables. 6rite down the methodology 3in your own

words4, results and conclusion.

lace them in a size one paper. 7ttached the print

out of the abstract.

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WRITING $OUR TIT%ECapitalize the first letter of each word in a title,

e!cept con)unctions, articles and prepositions.

Use phrase rather than a sentence. "he title

should be stated in a formal manner. 75oid using

fancy words.

8o not underline a title or enclose in 'uotation

mar(s.

8o not use any punctuation mar(s at the end ofthe title.

9!ample

Used Coo(ing il as an 7dditi5e Component of Candle


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AC&NOW%E'GE#ENT ("ontained in a

sepa!ate s)eet*"his part ac(nowledges the people,

companies and organizations who helped you

in the course of your study. "his part should

be written in a paragraph form.


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TAB%E O+ CONTENTS6ording and grammar of the chapter titles,

headings and title of tables and figures should

be consistent with how it is written in the te!t

and in the table of contents.


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