University of Missouri Columbia Nuclear Waste Management Paper & Cover Letter General Instructions 1.A list of themes/subjects is given below. Choose one o

University of Missouri Columbia Nuclear Waste Management Paper & Cover Letter General Instructions 1.A list of themes/subjects is given below. Choose one or more of these (you can combine them if you choose) and prepare a detailed report as your final project for this class. You may also come up with your own individual project theme not included in the list if you so desire but it must be clearly related to this class and be approved in advance by the instructor. The earlier you get such an approval the better. 2.You must use the general report guidelines that have been established. For the final project, however, the length must be between 20 and 30 pages. This length does not include the standard title page required by the guidelines. 3.You should also include a separate brief cover letter clearly and concisely describing your theme/subject, its relevance to the class, and why you personally have chosen it specifically, i.e. what is its significance to you personally? Since some themes/subjects may be fairly broad, you may find that you want to focus your attention on some specific aspect within the theme/subject that you choose. In this case, you should make it clear in the cover letter that you are doing this and why. You may also want to discuss your basic approach to the theme/subject and your methodology in researching the theme/subject and analyzing it. This cover letter is separate from the abstract and the title page required by the guidelines. This cover letter is also not included in the required length range. 4.You may use reasonable amounts of quoted material but do not forget to properly identify and reference such material. Also be sure to properly reference all data that you use. As always, be aware of the dangers of plagiarism and academic dishonesty and avoid them. See the posted statements on these items for more clarification. You may use a proofreader to assist with grammar and spelling issues but the content of your submission must be your own and any proofreader must be clearly acknowledged and may not also be in the class. 5.Avoid trying to expand your page count by manipulating the sizes of figures, tables, equations, etc. These should always be kept reasonably compact and only large enough to be properly visualized or to conform to the font specifications. Tables will thus generally be single spaced even though the body of the text is to be double spaced. 6.Figure captions should be given below the figure while table captions should be given above the table. Look at the textbook and how it handles figures and tables. All figures and tables should be sequentially numbered, should be referenced in order in the text, should be explained adequately in the right place in the text, and should include fully descriptive captions composed of complete sentences. Captions should not simply narrate the numbers in figures and tables that can be clearly seen. Instead, captions should explain meanings, reasons, backgrounds, trends, problems, etc.