Name ______Date ______
Period ______Page ______
1st Quarter Project - Endangered Species Paper
The paper is due on October 25, 2006 by 3:00p.m.
Objective:
Students will utilize the Internet and other sources to research an endangered species.
Students will prepare a formal research paper
The paper will use at least 4 sources, none of which shall be an encyclopedia
At least one source will not be obtained from the computer
Note cards will be used
The paper will include a title page. It will be in the same style and size type as the body of the paper. The title of the paper will be centered near the middle of the page. NO pictures, no frills, no fancy fonts.
An outline will be developed. It will follow the title page.
The paper will be approximately 4 pages (3 ¾ to 6) long TYPED, hand-written papers will not be corrected! The type size should be no large than 12 font and no smaller than 10. Margins should not exceed 1½ inches. The paper will be double spaced using the double feature, not by hitting return twice.
Diagrams, maps and data tables can be included but are not required. These will NOT count as part of your required number of pages. NO PICTURES!!!
A Works Cited will follow the body of the paper. A handout will be give to you to demonstrate the proper MLA citations.
The paper will not use personal pronouns or contain any of your opinions.
Do not write questions unless they are quotes.
The introduction and conclusion will touch on all of the major concepts covered in the paper.
A rough draft correctedby someone other than yourself must be submitted. I will not correct any paper that does not comply. The rough draft and proof reader sheet will follow the good copy of the paper and works cited.
This project is worth one quarter of the first marking period’s grade in Living Environment.
The paper is due on October 25, 2006 by 3:00p.m.
Any paper turn after this time is considered late and will be given a 10 point deduction per day.
Writing
Title Page
It will be in the same style and size type as the body of the paper. The title of the paper will be centered near the middle of the page. Name, date, and class period will appear near the bottom of the page. No pictures, no frills, no fancy fonts!
Introduction
Write an introduction for your paper. The introduction should state the topic and give an overview f every major subject that you will cover in the paper. If you are going to talk about it, it should be in your introduction.
NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS!!! (I, me, you, we, they)
DO NOT start your paper with anything that resembles the following:
My project is about …
I chose as my subject…
I’m gonna tell you about …
The Body
There should be a separate paragraph for every major subject. Starts each paragraph with a statement about the topic of the paragraph. The report will at lease include the following materials:
Scientific name, common name, physical description, (height, weight, color, fur, etc), location (where did the species live, where do they live now), ecosystem niche, (what special adaptive features does the organism have), food and feeding behavior, reproductive behavior, endangered status (thy are they endangered, future possible outcome, what is being done for the species), World Organizations that support the organism.
Conclusion
The conclusion should look a lot like the introduction. You should touch upon all of the major points discussed in the paper. You may use some more details than then introduction, but do not restate all of your information. DO NOT STATE YOUR OPINION. IT DOES NOT BELONG IN THIS TYPE OF PAPER!!!
The paper should be compiled in the following order.
- Title Page
- Outline
- Paper (introduction, body, & conclusion)
- Works Cited
- Rough Draft
Proof Reader's Cover Sheet
Name: ______
Proof reader's Name: ______
Relation (friend, classmate, Dad, etc.): ______
Please do your best job of proof reading this paper. Your help is greatly appreciated.
I have proof read this paper to the best of my ability.
Proof reader's signature:______
Proof Reader's Cover Sheet
Name: ______
Proof reader's Name: ______
Relation (friend, classmate, Dad, etc.): ______
Please do your best job of proof reading this paper. Your help is greatly appreciated.
I have proof read this paper to the best of my ability.
Proof reader's signature:______
PROQUEST AND INFOTRAC
Periodical Online Databases
Warsaw High School
ProQuest
Must be accessed at sls.edutech.org
Click on Electronic Databases by School - right side of table
Click on Warsaw High
Click on ProQuest
Click on the small bar, right middle -Connect to Proquest
School UseAccount Name - PS7HKHXXQ6
Password – Welcome
Home useAccount Name - Q7PWXBFKDJ
Password - Welcome
Click on Search By Word – left side, bottom of the tree
Type search term in the box, for older articles you will hit the Date Range box
Articles will be arranged with the most recent first, number of results listed on top
Under the searh box you may check - Show results with full text availability only. This will give you citations with the whole article.
Articles may be emailed to your personal email.
Subject terms are listed in the top section of an article. You may click on one of these and get another set of articles on that related subject.
InfoTrac
sls.edutech.org
Click on Electronic Databases by School–right side of table
Click on Warsaw High
Click on InfoTrac for Students for Warsaw High
Password – warh14569
Click on Proceed
Box will be Subject Guide Search
You may change the search to Keyword Search – left bar
Under this box you may limit the results – Click on - to articles with text
Articles will be arranged with the most recent first.
In your list of articles, explanations of the title are in parenthesis.
At the bottom of the results you can narrow by subdivision
Hit print on the left bar, it will reformat the page.
9/01 Rev.
Lyons 14
/Header, ½” right aligned. Next numbered page after body
Works Cited /Centered
Angyal, Andrew J. “Carl Sandburg.” Critical Survey of Poetry. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 6. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982.Botkin, Albert, ed. Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Crown, 1994. / Magill Series
Book or pamphlet,editor
Canseco, Jose and Dave McKay. Strength Training for Baseball. New York: Perigee, 1990. /Book of pamphlet,2 authors
Cat in the Hat Beginner Book in French. New York: Random, 1965. /Book or pamphlet,no author
Christie, Agatha. Cat Among the Pigeons. New York: Pocket Books, 1961. /Book or pamphlet,1 author
---.Death on the Nile. New York: Bantam, 1976. /Book, same author
Crowder, Richard. Carl Sandburg. Twayne’s U.S. Author’s Ser. 47. Boston: Twayne, 1964. /Book in a series
Cuchavi, Yehoyakin. “Joseph Goebbels.” Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Ed. Israel Gutman. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan, 1990. /Specialized encyclopedia, author given
“Germany: the Trap Closes.” Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War . Ed. James L. Collins. Vol. 8. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1972. /Specialized encyclopedia, no author
“Glove.” Compton’s Encyclopedia and Fact-Index. 1995 ed. /General encyclopedia, no author
Gould, Richard. “Iroquois Indians.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed. /General encyclopedia, author given
Knight, Laurel A. “The Clean Air and Water Acts.” Nature Study. Mar. 1995: 38-45. Pollution. Ed. Eleanor Goldstein. Vol. 5. Boca Raton: SIRS, 1995. Art. 24. /SIRS
Lee, A. Robert. “Herman Melville.” American Short Story Writers Before 1800. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbal. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 74. Detroit: Gale, 1988. /Dictionary of Literary Biography
Lyons 15Lewis, R.W. B. “The Picaresque Saint.” Twentieth Century Interpretation of the Grapes of Wrath. Ed. Robert Con Davis. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1982. / Separately titled chapters in a book with an editor
Masci, David. “Fighting Over Animal Rights.” The CQ Researcher. 2 Aug. 1996: 673-696.
May, Greg. Personal interview. 8 Sept. 1997.
Sesser, S. “Hong Kong Betrayed?” Reader’s Digest Aug. 1997: 102-8.
“Studies Show Men Do Better In Marriage Than Women.” Jet 12 May 1997: 18.
Wilford, John. “Bones May Be Those of a Powerful Maya Ruler.” New York Times 6 June 1995: C6.
“Working on Education.” Democrat and Chronicle 21 Nov. 1996, sec. 1:1.
“Zebra Mussels.” Encarta. CD-ROM. Microsoft, 1994.
Egeland, Grace and John Middaugh. “Balancing Fish Consumption Benefits with Mercury Exposure.” Science 12 Dec. 1997:1904-1905. Proquest. Warsaw H.S. Lib. 8 Feb. 1998.
“Tracking space junk.” 8 Feb. 1998 <http:octopus.gma.org>. /
CQ Researcher
Interview
Magazine, with author
Magazine, no author
Newspaper article, author
(Weekly example)Newspaper article, no author (Sunday example)
CD-ROMInternet article from a periodical database.
Internet article