Variety of Recent Periodicals in Environmental Science Search through a variety of recent periodicals within past 1-2 years- for an appropriate article pertaining to a topic from this
course.
The article needs to be from printed or online news articles, magazines or journals. RMU has many databases you can access from the library site on the RMU website. Make sure your source is reputable, meaning no blogs, but you can use a
newspaper. DO NOT use articles from the organization or governmental websites.
Variety of Recent Periodicals in Environmental Science
You should look for a newspaper, or journal, or magazine
that is publishing their articles online, but that is different from an organization that is promoting some cause or a governmental website that is providing general information to citizens.
Write a paragraph- about 15-20 full sentences summarizing the article, making sure you cover the following:
1- Introduction-what is the name of the article, the name of the journal, the topic of the article, and how is it related to this course. Include a url link to the article in this section. If it is a print magazine or newspaper, then give the journal or newspaper name, date of publication, name or title of the article, and author(s) You can put this information at the end of your paper.
Variety of Recent Periodicals in Environmental Science
2- Describe the information in the article and describe whether it agrees or disagrees with the course text. Describe means more than a few words, or just writing that it agrees or disagrees. In what way does the information agree…… or in what way does it disagree with the course text.
3- Cite at least 1 reference from the book as an in-text citation. For example, this article is about how xxxxxxx is bad for humans
and this is also noted in our text on page 100. The article notes that……….. This is part of science to find credible sources to support positions. Points will be deducted if this is not done.
