Cancer biology

Your CW task is to create a web page based informative resource. You will be given an individual title and you should research the topic area in good text books, journal review articles and original research articles as well as appropriate level and validity web based material.

The basic rules for the CW are:

1. You should restrict your web resource to 6-8 pages of content, plus title, reference list and quiz pages in addition.

2. The references you use must include textbooks, review articles, original research papers and web sources. You are RESTRICTED to 5 original research articles. A guideline to the total number of references to be used is 10-15.

3. Use these sources effectively. You are expected to include some well chosen data from selected articles in your work.

4. The text component of your work (including Figure legends and words associated with tables) should not exceed 2000 words. You should prepare your text in Word and produce a word count before you upload the text into Softchalk. Remember though that in a web page you do not need (and in fact it is preferable to avoid) long sections of essay style prose. You can use bullet points, key fact boxes, summary tables etc.

5. You can insert Figures and Tables, either from sources or created by yourself, but the former must be referenced correctly.

6. You can also insert video clips and create hyperlinks. Use these facilities wisely and sparingly. Ensure that what you are including or linking to here is at an appropriate level and enhances your work.

7. Softchalk includes the facility to include quizzes and activities. You are required to include ONE quiz of 6 to 10 questions and ONE activity eg matching terms with their definitions. You need to produce these quiz questions yourself.

8. Remember your target audience- you should be pitching the level and style of your work to be appropriate to be an informative resource for other students at your stage of study ie final year undergraduates on a Bioscience programme. You must explain concepts and pathways simply and clearly; define unfamiliar terms and avoid over-complex detail.

9. Remember that you are on a Cancer Biology module, not Clinical Medicine, nor Radiography, nor Nursing. You must focus on the SCIENCE that underlies your topic- eg signalling pathways, mode of action of therapeutic agents, biochemical principles of diagnostic tests etc NOT lists of medical terms etc.

10. Submit on a disc directly to CM or EG or IH or KH

11. The marking scheme for the CW can be found in the CW instructions ppt

12. We can run the text of your completed work through Turnitin, so please DO NOT plagiarise any aspect of your work.