What is the difference between these two terms?

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What is the difference between these two terms?

Post by everarianas »

I have to write a report for a grant I'm applying to for the SCAS High School Program. They said to write about the Statement of Purpose, Procedure, Materials, Objectives, and Bibliography.

What is the difference between the Statement of Purpose and Objective?

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Re: What is the difference between these two terms?

Post by Amber_MIT »

I would ask them for official clarification, but my guess is that the purpose section is supposed to discuss how the project relates to real life, i.e., how is it useful?

The objectives are probably what you intend to find from the experiment. What questions do you want answered?

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