Written
Final Project--Assignment, Criteria, and Examples
for
ENVS 4950
Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies
ETSU,
Spring 2014, O'Donnell
last
update: Jan 16, 2014
I. 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. (See calendar for due date.)
II. 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.
III. Examples
1) From Spring 2012: Water
Pollution: Analyzing the Effect of Runoff on the Human Population in East
Tennessee
Here is the link to the associated written final
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, by M.M.
2) From Spring 2011: Sustainable
Agriculture: The Local Food Movement and Self-Sufficient Living in Upper East
TN
Here is the link to the associated written final
project: Sustainable,
Local Food in Upper East Tennessee: Where It Comes From, Who Grows It, and Why
You Should Eat It, by T.H.