Outline due 2/25
For this installment of the paper, you will turn in an annotated
list of at least 10 references and an outline of the paper.
Annotated Reference List:
This means a list of a minimum of 10 references, each listed in
proper bibliographic format, each with a one-to-two sentence
description of the most important points in the paper. This
means you must have read and understood all your references. Printouts
from GeoRef and other bibliographic databases are not acceptable
for this part of the assignment. This list should be pretty
complete, though you can add references you locate later.
You may use two kinds of resources for your paper:
- primary literature
- journal articles
- monographs (book-length studies)
- government documents such as USGS reports
- secondary resources
- review articles
- scholarly books
There are a variety of other resources you may use for background
on your topic, or to introduce yourself to the topics, but these MAY
NOT BE CITED in your paper as sources. Instead, look up the
original research articles. Uncitable sources include:
- popular accounts (e.g., Scientific American,
popular magazines such as Discover or Earth, mass
market books, credible Web sites such as museum sites)
- news accounts, whether in newspapers, magazines, or weekly
journals such as Science and Nature. You can recognize news
articles in Science because they are in the front of the
journal, they do not have abstracts, and they typically have
titles that sound newspaper or magazine articles instead of the
very dry titles of scholarly articles. You MAY cite the research
articles in the back of Science and Nature.
- opinion pieces such as editorials
- blogs and Internet discussion groups
- interviews with scientists
- Wikipedia or encyclopedia articles
Internet resources are acceptable under the provisions above. So
a USGS open-file report from the Web is acceptable; discussions
from talkorigins.org are not. If in doubt, see me.
Requirements:
- You must find a minimum of at least 10 relevant
citable sources. (For some topics, this may be difficult - see
me if you think you cannot find 10 sources).
- You must use a minimum of two CSUS library
databases
- You must find a minimum of three sources
from the reference list of another paper
Outline:
Write your outline in complete sentences.
It should essentially be a slim version of your paper, just
organized as an outline. The more detailed you make the outline,
the simpler it will be to convert it to a final draft.
The outline MUST be
structured like this:
- Main point #1
- Argument #1
- Citation - (Author, Year)
- Argument #2
- Main Point #2
- Argument #1
- Citation - (Author, Year)
- Argument #2