Download Extra Credit Opportunity: Lecture Notes Archive Project

Chem 14C/14D Extra Credit: Course Notes Archive Project
Deadline: End of the final exam. No exceptions!
Earlier submissions earn greater consideration.
Possible Extra Credit: 9 points (Chem 14C) or 10 points (Chem 14D)
An on-line archive of student-written course notes is being created. Your help is needed
in building this archive, which will serve your fellow students this quarter as well as
future quarters.
Good notes are more than just a record of what was written on the board and said in
lecture, or a regurgitation of the textbook. They are modified and expanded while
reading the text and working practice problems. They include additional details,
examples and explanations, focusing on the most important and most difficult concepts.
They integrate lecture, Thinkbook, text and discussion section. Relevant concepts from
other lectures are included so that the Big Picture emerges. Good notes are neat, accurate
and detailed, but at the same time, concise and coherently organized.
What do I do?
1. Pick the course topic(s) for which you have written (or will write) your best notes.
See the topic list below.
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You may select up to ten points worth of topics to submit. For example, a
Chem 14D student might submit Ionic Substitution - SN2 (10 points) or Ionic
Substitution - SN1 (5 points) plus Elimination Reactions (5 points).
Submissions in excess of ten points will be ignored.
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If you are creating or updating notes specifically for this project, consider
selecting topic(s) that are difficult for you. Use this opportunity to develop a
deeper understanding.
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As an approximate guideline, your notes should not exceed four or five pages
per hour of lecture.
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Only the very best notes will be considered for inclusion in the archive, so
don’t waste your time with sloppy, inaccurate, half-hearted attempts. Better to
submit a single, well-written set of notes then several poor examples.
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The notes must be word-processed. Spelling, grammar and professional
appearance count! Structures and illustrations may be neatly drawn by hand,
or you may use software for generating these drawings. Submissions with
hand-drawn structures and illustrations will receive less consideration than
those with computer-drawn structures and illustrations.
The final version of the notes cannot be more than 2 MB, so that they can
be downloaded in a reasonable period of time. If your notes are larger,
consult Dr H for ways to make them more compact.
2. The notes must be submitted as a word processor file by email
([email protected]) or on CD (Young Hall 3077C) no later than the final
exam. (Slide the CD under the office door if Dr H is not in.) Late submissions will
not be accepted. No exceptions.
3. Notes must also be submitted for plagiarism testing at Turnitin.com. Use the link on
your myucla web page.
Please do not even think about plagiarizing, not even just a little bit. (This includes
writing a transcript of lecture recordings.) The penalties are severe, and can include
expulsion from UCLA. No amount of extra credit is worth this risk. Your
participation in this project means you accept expulsion as the penalty for your
plagiarism.
What happens after my submission?
The best set of notes for each lecture topic will be selected based upon accuracy, detail
(depth and breadth), conciseness, neatness, etc.
Only the very best notes will be
considered, so it is possible that extra credit points will not be awarded for every lecture
topic.
If your notes are significantly better than those already posted, then your notes will
replace the inferior notes and you will earn the extra credit. If your notes are replaced,
your extra credit is reduced by half (round up), so do your very best!
The winning notes will be posted on the course web site for everyone’s use, hopefully
within three days of their submission.
Lecture Notes Topics
Chem 14C
Topic
Extra Credit Point Value
Introduction and Review
3
Resonance
3
Conjugated Molecules
6
Introduction to Aromaticity
3
Stereochemistry
6
Carbohydrates
3
Mass Spectrometry
3
Infrared Spectroscopy
3
1
H-NMR Spectroscopy
9
C-NMR, 2D-NMR and MRI
3
13
Solving Spectroscopy Problems
6
X-ray Diffraction
3
Noncovalent Molecular Forces
6
Structure and Reactivity: Acids and Bases
6
Lipids
3
Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins
3
Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
3
Chem 14D
Topic
Extra Credit Point Value
Ionic Substitution – SN2
10
Ionic Substitution – SN1
5
Elimination Reactions
5
Addition to Carbon-Carbon Pi Bonds
5
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
5
Radicals
5
Carbonyl Chemistry: Fundamentals
5
Carbonyl Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms
10
Carbonyl Chemistry: Enolates, Enols and Enamines
5
Organic Chemistry of Pharmaceuticals
10
Drug Development: Discovery to Market
3