Final
Project--Instructions and Examples
for
ENVS 4950
Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies
ETSU,
Spring 2013, O'Donnell
Assignment
- For your final project, worth 25% of the final grade, you will
write about your service placement, and about related issues raised by your
experience and reading.
- The purpose and audience of the writing will be
determined, based on the subject matter, and on your approach to it.
- You will bring to class a rough draft, at least a few
weeks before the final due date, for a draft workshop.
Criteria
1) Purpose, motive, and audience. Your goal is to write something suitable for
posting on the web; a piece of writing that will find an interested audience--that
is, writing that is motivated, that someone besides the instructor in this
class will actually want to read.
2) Clarity and readability--including A) organization; B)
sentence fluency; C) editing and proofreading; D) format, layout, and graphics.
3) Accuracy and thoroughness, including responsible
references to sources.
Examples
From Spring 2012:
- M.
M. -- Water Pollution: Analyzing the Effect of Runoff on the Human Population
in East Tennessee
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the final paper for this student's service project:
Analyzing
and Educating about the Effect of Water Pollution on
the
Human Population and Environment in Greene County, Tennessee:
Working with Middle Nolichucky Watershed Alliance and AmeriCorps NCCC
From Spring 2011:
- T.H.
-- Sustainable Agriculture: The Local Food Movement and Self-Sufficient Living
in Upper East TN
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the final paper for this student's service project: