AP Environmental Science Chapter Outline Guidelines
As part of your work for my class, you will be expected to produce outlines for each assigned chapter to be turned in on the day of each Unit Test. You should follow the pacing guide on your syllabus, and try to keep up with that to the best of your ability (i.e. do not procrastinate and try to do everything the day before the test). In terms of your outlines, I am not concerned so much with the format, as I am the content. Many students prefer to keep a separate notebook dedicated solely to their outlines. That being said, your outlines should be easy for me to follow, they should be organized, and they need to be legible.
Here is my policy for the outlines for you to receive full credit for your work.
1. Your outlines must be handwritten, I will not accept outlines that are typed, word processed, scanned, Xeroxed, etc. The work must be in your own hand, and it should clearly be your own work.
2. Your outlines must be legible.
3. Your outlines should be organized in a way that they are easy for me to follow, yet work with your own learning style.
4. Pick a format and be consistent – you can do a traditional outline with headings, sub headings, organized by roman numerals or numbers (http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/research/outlining.html or http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/544/01/ see examples).
Other outline formats are available on my website.
**Pick a style that works for you and that you are comfortable working with!!
5. Your name, block, and chapter(s) should be on your outlines.
6. Your outlines should focus on the major ideas of each chapter, yet provide enough supporting detail so that you are covering all the content, and material of each assigned chapter. The length of the outlines is not specified, as long as, all the material is covered at a high academic level to ensure you are getting the relevant information. Outlines will vary due to paper used (type, both sides, one side), size of written text, margins, drawing, diagrams, etc.
7. Supporting diagrams, doodles, sketches, graphic organizers, flow charts, are fine, but there still must be some written outline.
8. Your outlines should be in order…make sure they are organized from beginning to the end of the chapter
9. Do not place portions of your outlines on other assignments. Your outlines should only be on paper or a separate notebook designated for the construction of your outlines.
10. Outlines that are partially complete, illegible, out of order, etc. will be marked down accordingly at the discretion of the instructor.