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PAPERS
Part of being an effective environmental scientist or scholar, whether you are working in the academic, private, government, or NGO sector, is being able to express your views in a well-organized, clear, logical, and succinct manner. This involves both oral and written communications skills. These paper assignments are designed to help you develop the written skills.
You are required to write three papers, one on the first topic and the other two on your choice of the four additional topics:
Points for writing effective papers:
- Each paper should be 1500-2000 words in length, double-spaced, with a reasonably readable font size. Part of learning to write effectively is learning to write within limits of length; this means I will not read word #2001 of the text.
- References can be in any standard footnote, endnote, or embedded reference format. The notes or bibliography may push the total over 2000 words.
- Papers will be graded on accuracy and pertinence of content, logic, effective and appropriate vocabulary use, cogency of argument, and elegance of argument.
Processes and grading:
- Papers should be turned in electronically to The Instructor.
- I will grade and return papers, with extensive comments, within one week of the due date.
- A is 4.0, A- is 3.7, B+ is 3.3, B is 3.0, etc.
- Late papers will be graded down one letter-scale point (A to A-, B- to C+) at 5:00 p.m. on the due date, and one more letter-scale point for each additional calendar day they are late.
- If you choose to write 4 papers, you may drop you lowest paper grade. I don't have time to read 5 papers.
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