Choose one of these topics
TRANSPORTATION:
- Transportation Energy Alternatives
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
- The Revival of Elactric Cars
- Plug-in Hybrid Cars
- The Past, Present and Future of Compressed-Air Vehicles
- Lithium Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors -- How They Can Be Applied to Cars
General remarks:
There are no rigid rules of writing scientific or technical reports, or articles popularizing science, new technologies, etc. However, there are certain "rules of thumb" that have emerged over time. If you take a copy of any scientific journal, you will see that all articles in it are composed in a similar manner, according to the same "general scheme".
They consist of distinctive elements, or "building blocks", that are arranged as follows:
- Paper title, followed by the name of the author (or names, if there are two or more authors), and her/his/their affiliation(s). The title has to give the reader a general idea of what the paper is about.
- Abstract: a single-paragraph summary of the entire paper. It should briefly describe the question posed in the paper, and the conclusions. It should be possible to determine the major points of the paper by reading it. The abstract is very important for the reader, because after reading it she/he usually makes a decision of whether the subject is of interest to her/him, and whether the entire paper is worth reading (although the abstract is located at the beginning of the paper, it is easiest to write it after the paper is completed).
- The body of the paper - and it also has to be "structured", i.e., it should contain the following "blocs":
(a) a section titled "Introduction" - it should explain why the topic presented in the paper is important. And it may also outline the "general plan" of presenting the material in the main part - for instance, it may identify and briefly describe the "subtopics" that will be discussed in it.
(b) The "main section" of the body. It may be a single section, but if the general topic presented in the paper may be split into several "subtopics", it makes sense to divide the "main section" into "subsections", each one discussing a separate "subtopic".
Note: In the past years, it happened more than once that in the in term papers students had written for me, some of them had used the phrases "Body of the paper" or "Main section" as titles. It is not appropriate, of course - if you don't understand why :o) , please pay me a visit during my office hours, and I will explain.
(c) A closing section, called "Summary and conclusions" (or "Discussion", or "Closing remarks" - whatever suits the author better).
Here the major points of the paper should be again summarized, with a brief discussion (if needed) following, and then a paragraph or two containing the final conclusions. A person writing a report or article usually wants to pass certain message to the reader - so, the closing section is the right place to do that. Of course, the message should be passed to the reader in an elegant manner, using highly logical arguments, not "brutal propaganda".
- Additional sections, such as the list of references quoted in a paper (references are very important, what is written in a good paper always has to be based on trustworthy sources, and the reader must be given a chance to access those sources her/himself. Also, if the paper is not in a final printed form, but in a manuscript form, then putting figures and their captions in the main body may not be easy. A common practice is therefore to put the figures - each on a separate page - after the list of references, and to group all captions on yet another page.
Attachment:- guidline.compressed.pdf