Current Issues Student Presentations
The current issues assignment is designed for you to learn how to critically evaluate primary literature and present your research into a specific scientific issue related to the environment.
Assignment Objectives: Following completion of this assignment, students should be able to:
1. Discuss scientific findings critically with their peers
2. Have a broad understanding of different fields within environmental science
3. Effectively communicate to their peers the major findings, limitations, and logical next steps related to research on a specific environmental topic.
Directions for this assignment:
For presenting a scientific topic of your choosing, you must include 2 peer-reviewed studies (primary research is the actual experimentation done by scientists). Please provide background information relevant to your topic and explain the significance of the articles to research in this area. Presentations should contain original figures (as well as other supporting figures or short videos) from these studies with the proper citations. Remember to thoroughly explain figures so everyone can understand. Copying and pasting is considered plagiarism. All writing should be in your own words. Students should compare and criticize different studies. Please do not simply restate the findings the authors provide.
In addition to the two peer-reviewed research articles you will be discussing, there must be a minimum of 3 other supporting peer-reviewed articles (these do not have to be primary research). THIS BRINGS YOUR MINIMUM TOTAL OF REFERENCES TO 5. You can obviously have more, but I will be looking for 5.
All references must be cited in a literature cited section, APA format. Figure sources must also be cited.
Presentations should include title slide, 2-3 introduction slides that provide background on the topic you are focused on, study slides, which include the purpose, hypothesis, materials and methods, results and conclusions from the 2 studies you are discussing, an overall conclusion slide, and a works cited slide. This means you will have approximately 15-20 slides total. SEE EXAMPLE FOR FORMAT EXPECTATIONS.
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