Instructions for CLET
4840 Paper:
Basic Outline:
A case study or literature review
paper assignment will be due Friday
@11:00am week 7. If you are late (after
11am Friday week 7 and before Friday @ 11am week 10), after 11a.m. the paper
will be accepted to complete the course work, but will receive a grade of 0. Failure
to submit the paper will result in a zero in the lab, which results in a
failure in the class. Electronic
copies of the paper will NOT be accepted.
Your option is to write a paper on any topic that is relevant and/or
related extremity condition or complaint.
It can be a literature search or a case study. You will need references from legitimate
sources like PubMed, Scopus or ICL (Index to Chiropractic Literature), they
must be included and you cannot use Souza.
A
case study
must follow the introduction, case report, discussion, conclusion format. The
case reports should include all aspects of the patient encounter as well as
interventions and a comprehensive discussion on the subject matter. Written permission must be attained to write
a case report on any patient you are treating.
Research
Literature Reviewmust select 5-7 published research articles or
case reports on an extremity condition or complaint either resolved by or
currently under chiropractic care. A literature search is defined as “a
comprehensive sourcing of published information from databases based on
specific specifications”. This means
that once you have chosen your topic, you may go to Scopus, Pub-med orICL (Index to Chiropractic
Literature) and search their data
base for similar papers that have been published on that topic. You will then write your own paper including
an introduction, comprehensive discussion of the topic and a conclusion with
your own thoughts and opinions based on the information you have gathered from
your literature search.
In addition, a 200-word abstract must be
included. Abstracts should be concise
and informative and must outline the basic tenets of the main paper.
The
references page
will follow the College of Chiropractic reference citation style guide as
posted in this section. At least 5-7
articles will be required form Scopus, Pub-med or Please look in the folder for
the instructions. If you need further
assistance in how to write the case report or the literature search paper,
please look in this folder for the articles posted for further information.
Plagiarism will not be
tolerated and when detected will result in a zero on the paper and zero in the
lab, which will result in a failure in the class. The paper will count 5% of your Lab
grade. Further details will be posted on
the BB site under course information. The project must be no less than 1000 words
in double spaced, Arial 12-point font.





