Section 1: Introduction                             20/20

  Research Question and Motivation

  Citations to literature on this topic

  Quick summary of main results from Section 4

  * nice introduction
  * nice summary of survey, etc.

Section 2: Methods                                  20/20

  Target population, frame, sample design/methods, sample size

  Number of respondents contacted, number of respondents, other
  nonresponse/refusal information

  A few questions from your questionnaire (full questionnaire, contact
  letter(s), informed consent statement, etc, in appendices)

  Post-survey processing

  Other relevant information from the body of your progress report
  talk

  * methods well-described and appropriate here

Section 3: Results                                  20/20

  (may or may not be longer than Section 2!)

  Restate research question(s), show statistical analyses, discuss how
  they answer each research question (gory stat details in another
  appendix?)

  * great initial set of results

  * please support your qualitative conclusions with some judiciously
    chosen quant info from the survey (more detailed quant info can go
    in appx).  Some suggestions made in marked up copy of paper draft.

  * please supply some inferences/generalizations about the target
    population of CMU grad students, using appropriat confidence
    intervals etc. (not all results need this, just the highlights,
    e.g.)

Section 4: Discussion                               20/20

  Overall discussion of research questions, how well survey answered
  them

  Any surprising, or expected, results

  Strengths and weaknesses of your survey; recommendations for future

  Take-home message(s)

  * I understand that this is to come


List of References                                  10/10

Appendices                                          10/10

* please add detailed quantitative info from survey in appx's that
  would distract from the main 'story' in the body of the paper.


TOTAL                                               100/100

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* I was expecting most of Sections 1 and 2, and the list of
  references, would be complete

  - using material from your project proposal

  - using material from your progress report ppt

* I was expecting many holes in the rest of the paper, depending on
  work you haven't completed yet.

  - For each hole, I was looking for a paragraph detailing what you
    plan to do to fill the hole (put the paragraph in bold or italic,
    or box it or something so I know it is "plans" and not part of the
    actual paper text).

  - I considered your *plans* in sections 3, 4 and the appendices, not
    what you've *done* in these sections.  So not having many analyses
    yet wasn't a problem, as long as you gave me a well-thought-out
    set of plans for what you will do in the last couple weeks of the
    semester.

* I also considered organization & content (and plans, if you don't
    have content for some parts yet!)

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