Your Final Report is essentially a thorough but concise writeup of your entire investigation, noting its successess, shortcomings and what you would suggest be pursued next.
The Final Report is meant to be a standalone document. You may have changed your investigative methods as you progressed through your analysis — that's expected and normal. The big thing to remember: everything a reader needs to know to understand the Report should be found in the report.
The Final Report accounts for 35% of your final grade and should be a professional academic paper. You must use the required Overleaf template (see Requirements tab) — the template handles all formatting for you.
A concise standalone summary of the entire report that can be understood without reading the full paper. Your abstract should include:
Description of the reason you chose your analysis topic. In this section, you should provide some background research on the topic (this is the literature review), and a statement of your prior expectations for how your study would turn out.
This is a summary of the statistical analysis (the methods and the data used). Structure this section based on the questions of interest.
This is a statement of the subject matter implications of your study and discussion of further questions raised by your study.
This is an enumerated list, in APA-style, of the works you referenced throughout your Report.
This section contains paragraph-length summaries of each individual member's analysis and other relative contributions.
You must use the provided LaTeX template. Failure to use this template results in a -15 point penalty.
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The template features a professional two-column journal format with single-column abstract, clickable APA citations via biblatex-apa, and guidance for each section.
This rubric shows how your Final Report will be graded. Each criterion has multiple scoring levels with descriptions of what constitutes each level of performance.