Homework #5 BES 301 Autumn 2005
Reading Assignment:
- For Monday, November 7, read Valiela, ch2.
This is background for Dr. Hillyard’s
class that day.
- For Wednesday, November 9, read Valiela Ch 3:
pp 49-55; and 59-75 (“skip error propagation”) and then read the
paper by Ioannidis on E-reserve for the class. (Just
being added to the directory on 11/2)
Take notes in your
class journal. Be prepared to
participate or take the lead in a class discussion on aspects of these
readings.
Written Assignment
Write a 1-2 page essay addressing the following question:
The necessity of external funding
through grant proposals has become critical to the “doing” of science since
WWII. Consider the characteristics of a
successful proposal as given by the text author (Innovative, Significant,
Relevant, and Feasible) and discuss how this may have influenced the nature
of science and the scientific method in recent decades.
This is to be submitted to the
E-submit site for BES301 before class on
Wednesday , Nov 9.
The assignment name is “Grant Paper.”
Research Assignment:
If your review topic needed to be resubmitted, the deadline
is Nov 3, 6 PM. That is also the deadline (with a penalty)
for anyone who failed to submit the lit review topic on time. You should be finding sources for your topic
and beginning to think about how they fit together and cover the breadth of the
topic. You should have many more than
the final number of sources as you go along.
Your job will include finding the limited list of “best” sources for
your purpose. It should not surprise you
to find a source that ends up replacing an earlier one for some reason. You should discuss your progress with your
group (e-mail, in person, or on the peer review site), Rob Estes (librarian) or
with me as you go along. While this
phase requires only the source list, the very next one requires a summative
annotated bibliography. So, you should
be thinking of that as you work with the sources, rather than leaving all of
the annotations to be done at the end of the month.