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ASSIGNMENT #2 – Paper Outline and article summaries

Due March 3

Choose the journal articles that you will use to write your paper. Write a summary of the main points

for each article and why you think each article will help address your topic. At this point, you MUST

have all of the citations that you are going to be using for the paper. Thus, you must have planned on

doing most of your literature searching and reading of journal articles BEFORE this assignment is

due. Note that to produce a quality paper, you can not simply select the first seven articles that you

find on your topic. Therefore, you must schedule enough time so that you can review sufficient

literature in order to identify the articles most appropriate to your specific topic. After summarizing

the articles that you have chosen for your review, you should prepare a paper outline that organizes

the topics that you will include in your paper.

Features of this assignment:

1. Your paper title: Provide a title for the paper (it can be slightly different from the titles that I

provided and should reflect the content of your paper)

2. You paper objectives: In one paragraph, clearly state your objectives of the paper and give a brief

description of the topics to be covered.

3. Paper outline: Provide the overall outline of the paper including the subheadings that you will

use. Please read over your paper assignment for an idea of the final paper. In addition, you need

to provide the citations that you will cite in each paragraph (see example on the next page).

4. Summaries of the articles that you will use for your paper: For each of your articles, please

answer the following questions:

Article #1: Write out the full journal citation here (see example on the next page)

(a) What were the main research questions/objectives of this paper?

(b) What were the main results/answers to the above questions?

Etc… for all 7 (or more) citations that you will use.

Format:

Typed answers only. Please use single space for this component. Number your pages, and use 11-12

pt font. You should plan on writing about a quarter to a third of a page per article summary. Please

see the next page for an example format for this assignment.

Some major limnological journals:

Limnology and Oceanography

Freshwater Biology

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science

Archiv für Hydrobiologie

Journal of Paleolimnology

Hydrobiologia

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

Journal of Plankton Research

Aquatic Botany

Aquatic Entomology

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Wetlands

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