BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR COURSE PROJECT--UPDATED

What you are expected to include:

(Consider that this list is a minimum; y0u may feel free to include other exhibits, if relevant to the quality of your project.)

                    --Your pictures, before and after;

                    --The description of the "island's" location, as in your earlier report;

                    --Your weekly (plus or minus) journal observing the general ecological nature,                                                          peculiarities, surroundings that make a difference, etc., as stated in the original                                                     requirement page;

                    --A separate and longer reflection that includes the following--

                                    --in what ways, if any, the project made you more aware of what "nature" is                                                                   about and what relationships exist between nature and humans;

                                    --what links or relationships come to mind between your field observations and                                                          particular topics considered in class or in our readings;

                                    --how this project  could be better integrated into the discussions and subject                                                             matter of the course as a whole.

How this is to be formatted:

                    --Your journal entries may be single-spaced, with an extra couple of spaces between                                            entries.  Be sure they are dated and sequential.

--Everything else should be double-spaced, pages numbered, 10/12-point standard type,                          black ink, and as well-written as you can manage.  In other words, this is the MLA standard         format.  If you quote, paraphrase or reference sources from the text or elsewhere, please append a "Works Cited" page.  This is simple academic accountability.

How the project should be packaged:

                    --Some of you will want to make some fancy sort of cover for your project because you                                           will be proud of it.  Please restrain yourselves.  Your front page may simply be a                                                    blank coversheet with your name, course information and a title on it.  No additional                                        benefit will accrue from an artistic cover, because we're not all artistic.

                    --Bind your project in a plain report folder.

 The project is due when you report to class on November 28, 2011.