literature review

Week 2 assignment: LITERATURE REVIEW:

(5-8 page document )

Please review 10-15 Books, journals, magazines, newspapers, websites and news broadcast articles that are related to your research topic. Please  do not use Google; Wikipedia or Yahoo  search since these sites does not have peer reviewed articles. The key here is to gather information about your topic before starting writing your project. 

Please summarize the main points of each article or write the sections of the reading that you will incorporate in to your project. When you summarize the article, at the end of the article write the last name of the author and the year that article was published. The write-up should be 200-300 words per each reading. In addition to your summary please provide your reference page. Make sure your references are sorted in alphabetic order. This assignment is due second week of the class. Please follow the APA style. In writing this assignment, you are expected to paraphrase and not copy and paste the article. 

References 

· cite all ideas, concepts, text, data that are not your own

· if you make a statement, back it up with your own data or a reference

· all references cited in the text must be listed

· cite single-author references by the surname of the author (followed by date of the publication in parenProject)

· ... according to Hays (1994)

· ... population growth is one of the greatest environmental concerns facing future generations (Hays, 1994).

· cite double-author references by the surnames of both authors (followed by date of the publication in parenProject)

· e.g. Simpson and Hays (1994)

· cite more than double-author references by the surname of the first author followed by et al. and then the date of the publication

· e.g. Pfirman, Simpson and Hays would be:

· Pfirman et al. (1994)

· do not use footnotes

· list all references cited in the text in alphabetical order using the following format for different types of material:

· Hunt, S. (1966) Carbohydrate and amino acid composition of the egg capsules of the whelk. Nature, 210, 436-437.

· National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1997) Commonly asked questions about ozone.  http://www.noaa.gov/public-affairs/grounders/ozo1.html , 9/27/97.

· Pfirman, S.L., M. Stute, H.J. Simpson, and J. Hays (1996) Undergraduate research at Barnard and Columbia, Journal of Research, 11, 213-214.

· Pechenik, J.A. (1987) A short guide to writing about biology. Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 194pp.

· Pitelka, D.R., and F.M. Child (1964) Review of ciliary structure and function. In: Biochemistry and Physiology of Protozoa, Vol. 3 (S.H. Hutner, editor), Academic Press, New York, 131-198.

· Sambrotto, R. (1997) lecture notes, Environmental Data Analysis, Barnard College, Oct 2, 1997.

· Stute, M., J.F. Clark, P. Schlosser, W.S. Broecker, and G. Bonani (1995) A high altitude continental paleotemperature record derived from noble gases dissolved in groundwater from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Quat. Res., 43, 209-220.

· New York Times (1/15/00) PCBs in the Hudson still an issue, A2.

· it is acceptable to put the initials of the individual authors behind their last names, e.g. Pfirman, S.L., Stute, M., Simpson, H.J., and Hays, J (1996) Undergraduate research at ...... 

Check List

 

ü  Number your articles 1-15

ü  Sort your Reference page in alphabetic order.