Wk 11- continuing work on Bear Data & Policy Papers

Due Next week (Nov 20):

Email the paper to me and bring a printed copy to class.

1)The first part of your paper must pose your thesis question. For example:

What is the relationship between X and Y? you might also describe here why this question is interesting to you.

2)The second part of the paper should 

-use data, 

-your data images and 

-your own explanations 

to show what the relationship is between X and Y. 

Cite your sources but more importantly, make your own connections between  sources.

* section 3 of the paper about policy creation is NOT due next week. It will be a separate exercise.

Follow MLA guidelines for the structure and formatting of your paper. A sample paper is here.

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Different things your sentences can do:

-Create a 3 part introduction to your paper: Creating context, describe structure/intention of the paper and what order those ideas will be introduced, introduce central question, argument, or thesis.

-Give a factual statement from your research

-Create additional context for the fact or for the research performed

-Explain the data, it's scope and possibly how it was collected 

-Analyze the data- explain the relationship between X and Y 

-Show how that relationship is related to your topic

-Describe where the data came from

-Give a subtopic fact or statement
-Present evidence to support the central argument beginning with the first topic
-Transition from creating context to the rest of the main body of the paper by alerting the reader to the change in topics.

-Cite your primary research ( use footnotes)

A traditional paragraph might consist of a topic sentence, explanatory sentences, analysis sentences, and transition sentences. 

Because this is an academic paper, you may not use a sentence such as "It is estimated that since 1990 we have lost 30% of all wildlife"(Jensen, 24)

"It is estimated..." is vague. Who estimated it? When? Where was it published?

An acceptable sentence is "Illinois University completed a study in 2015 published in the Journal of Greatness, titled 'Population loss'. As part of that research they estimated that since 1990 North America has lost 30% of all its wildlife."

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Circle anything that shows the relationship between X and Y

Put a star next to each mention of data 

Underline anything that explains where the data came from

draw an arrow pointing to anything that mentions primary research

Draw a box around anything that assigns/metions responsibility for a problem or for a solution

Other people's reports on data:

How People Laugh Online
Insect Apocalypse
Where have all our insects gone?

Visualizing comparable data

River Summer
High water Line Eve Mosher
Norwood Viviano
Food Chain Reaction