Some points to be aware of in writing your paper

• Length—5-10 typewritten pages
• State conclusions clearly
• Include reasoning (i.e. not pure description)
• Include references (number them — not the same as bibliography)
• Organization:
  1. introduction and objective,
  2. background,
  3. main topic,
  4. discussion of what was done,
  5. conclusion.
• Complexity — after reading it, can you outline it?
• Skepticism of literature
• Independence

Expected writing quality

Grammatical errors that pain me particularly are misspellings, run-on sentences and use of the incorrect word. If you are not sure what a word means, look it up, or find a synonym. A thesaurus and a dictionary should be available during the composition of the paper from your detailed outline. Use them. Remember that Mark Twain said

• affect — effect
• augur — auger
• cite — site — sight (this is a trio!)
• faze — phase
• flout — flaunt
• it's — its
• parameter — perimeter
• sink — sync

Some papers in the past

1. Ultrasound in Medicine
2. Sports Dentistry - the Mouthpiece worn by the Notre Dame Football Team (Dr. Jack Stenger)
3. Mechanics of the Spine
4. Spinal Abnormalities
5. Application of Lasers and Cryogenics to Medicine
6. Microscopy in Medicine
7. Holographic Theory of Memory
8. Color Theory - Especially the Land Theory
9. Optical Illusions
10. Quantum Theory of Vision
11. Lens System of the Eye
12. Processing of Optical Signal from the Retina
13. Neural Mechanism of Vision
14. Inner Ear in Space Flight
15. Extra-Auditory Effects of Sound on the Human Body
16. Theories of Hearing
17. Diffusion Rates
18. Nerve Cells
19. Biofeedback
20. Hydrostatic Pressure and the Circulatory System
21. Human Performance in Sports
22. Form in Running and Hurdling
23. Oxygen Deprivation
24. Breathing Mechanism
25. Sunburn
26. The Speech Mechanism - A Physical System
27. Homeostatic Mechanims of the Body
28. Electrical Aspects of the Nervous Systern
29. The Conduction of Nerve Impulses
30. Optical Considerations of the Corneal Contact Lens
31. The Role of the Eye and the Brain in Visual Perception
32. The Quantum Theory of Vision and Retinal Information Processing
33. Interaction of Radiation with Matter
34. Cobalt-60 Radiotherapy
35. Basic Nuclear Medicine
36. Excitation and Conduction in the Heart
37. Negative Pion Cancer Therapy
38. X-Ray Attenuation in the Human Body and Contrast in Radiological Images
39. The Countercurrent Mechanisms in the Kidney
40. Principles of Blood Flow Measurement
41. The Characteristics of the Pressure-Flow Relationship in the Human Airways
42. The Physiological and Physical Processes Associated with Breathing
43. The Influence of High Altitude on Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Ederna
44. Ultrasound, a Therapeutic Tool
45. Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosis
46. Spiral Tomography
47. Acceleration tolerance in piloting high performance aircraft
48. Cochlear implants
49. Non-invasive measurement of blood oxygen

Some Scientific American articles — potential source materials

• “Retinal Processing of Visual Images,” Charles R. Michael, May 1969, p104
• “Eidetic Images,” Ralph Norman Haber, April 1969, p36.
• “The Biochemistry of Anxiety,” Ferris N. Pitts, February 1969.
• “Cellular factors in genetic Transformation,” A. Tomary, January, 1969, p 38.
• “The Neurophysiology of Remembering,” Karl H. Pribram, Jan. '69 p73.
• “Human Stones,” Kathleen Lansdale, Dec 1968, p 104.
• “Visual Illusions,” Richard L. Gregory, Nov 1968.
• “The Synthesis of DNA,” Arthur Kornberg, Oct 1968, p64.
• “The Processes of Vision,” Ulric Neisser, Sept 1968, p204.
• “The State of Water in Red Cells,” Arthur K. Solomon, Febr 1971, p89.
• “Stress and Behavior,” Seymour Levine, Jan 1971, p26.
• “The Origins of Hypodermic Medication,” Norman Howard Jones, Jan 1971, p96.
• “Visual Cells,” Richard W. Young, Oct 1970, p 80
• “The Functional Organization of the Brain,” A. R. Luria, Mar 1970, p66
• “Can Science Explain Consciousness?” John Horgan, July 1994, p88.
• “Squids,” John Clark, Aug 1994, p46
• “The Machinery of Cell Crawling,” Thomas P. Stossel, Sept 1994, p54.
• “Emotion, Memory and the Brain,” Joseph E. LeDoux, June 1994, p5O.
• “Surgical Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias,” Alden H. Harken, July 1993, p54.
• “The Mind and Donald 0. Hebb,” Peter M. Milner, Jan 1993, p) 24.
• “Listening with Two Ears,” Masakazer Konishi, Apr 1993, p66.
• “The Neurobiology of Fear,” Ned H. Kales, May 1993, p94.
• “Autism,” Uta Futh, June 1993, p108.
• “Breath Tests in Medicine,” Michael Phillips, July 1992, p74.
• “Paradoxes of Musical Pitch,” Diana Deutsch. Aug 1992, p88.
• Special Issue, Sept 1992 on the Brain, many interesting articles. A few:
  • “Mind and Brain”
  • “The Visual Image in Mind and Brain”
  • “Working Memory and the Mind”
  • “The Problem of Consciousness”
• “The Human Voice,” Robert T. Sataloff, Dec 1992, p108.
• “Why do we Age?” Ricki L Rusting, Dec 1992, p130.
• “Man viewed as a machine” J. Kemeny, Apr. 1955, p. 58
• “The membrane of a living cell”, J.D. Robertson, 4/62, p. 64.
• “Attention and the perception of speech”, D.D. Broadbent, 4/62, p. 143.
• “Sex differences in the brain”, S. Levine, 4/66 p. 84.
• “Language and the brain”, N. Geschwind 4/72 p. 76.
• “Microvascular surgery for stroke”, J.M. Fein 4/78 p. 58.
• “Nutrients that modify brain function”, R.J. Wurtman 4/82 p. 50.
• “A window on the sleeping brain”, A.R. Morrison, 4/83, p. 94.
• “Vision by man and machine”, T. Poggio, 4/84, p. 106.
• “What the brain tells the eye”, R.B. Barlow, 4/90 p. 90.
• “Conditioning and brain waves”, V. Rowland, 8/59, p. 89.
• “The split brain in Man”, M. Gazzaniga, 8/67, p. 24.
• “The neurophysiologuy of binocular vision”, J. Pettigrew, 8/72, p. 84.
• “ 'Second messengers' in the brain”, Nathanson & Greengard, 8/77, p. 108.
• “The thermostat of vertebrate animals”, Heller et al. 8/78, p. 102.
• “The tensile strength of liquids”, R. Apfel, 12/72, p. 58.
• “Electrical responses evoked from the human brain”, D. Regan, 12/79, p. 134.
• “The development of maps and stripes in the brain”, M. Constantine-Paton & M. Law, 12/82, p. 62.
• “How animal cells move”, M. Bretscher, 12/87, p.72.
• “Collective computation in nueronlike circuits”, D.W. Tank & J.J. Hopfield, 12/87 p. 104.
• “Plasticity in brain development”, C. Aoki & P. Siekevitz, 12/88, p. 56.
• “Synapse formation in the developing brain”, R. Kalil, 12/89 p. 76.
• “The physiology of perception”, W.J. Freeman, 2/91 p. 78.
• “Aftereffects in perception”, W. Prentice, 1/62 p. 44.
• “Art, illusion and the visual system”, M. Livingstone, 1/88, p. 78.
• “The pineal gland”, Wurtman & Axelrod, 7/65, p. 50.
• “Memory and protein synthesis”, B. Agranoff, 6/67, p. 115.
• “Eye movements and visual perception”, 6/71 p. 34.
• “Brain mechanisms of visual attention”, R. Wurtz et al. 6/82 p. 124.
• “The asymmetry of the human brain” D. Kimura, 3/73 p. 70.
• “Ion channels in the nerve-cell membrane”, R. Keynes, 3/79 p. 126.
• “The molecular basis of cell movement”, Lazarides & Revel, 5/79, p. 100.
• “A brain-cooling system in mammals”, M. Baker, 5/79 p. 130.
• “Myelin”, Morell & Norton, 5/80 p. 88.
• “Auditory localization”, M. Rosenzweig, 10/61 p. 132.
• “Musical illusions”, D. Deutsch, 10/75 p. 92.
• “Brain function and blood flow”, Lassen, et al. 10/78 p. 62.
• “Positron emission tomography” Ter-Pogossian, et al. 10/80 p. 170.