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.