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EAP2 WW 034 Class Page

This page is created for the benefit of students in CESL EAP 2 WW (Writers' Workshop) class. It will contain our assignments and links to sources. Welcome. Feel free to contribute.

LINKS

  • Go to Morris Library, to find an article (EBSCO or Lexis-Nexis) or a book (Illinet Online).
  • Find out how to cite and refer to sources, both on the web and off (Cheng Library, William Patterson Univ.)
  • Use the dictionary (Merriam-Webster)
  • Find Grammar information
  • Write an e-mail message to Mr. Leverett

    Montana

    photo by Montana Audubon


    POSSIBLE TOPICS

  • Old gold mines (Rachel)

  • Anti-mining initiative (banning cyanide)

  • Forest management/logging

  • Endangered/threatened Species in Montana

    • Gray wolf (Miffy) (Caroline)

    • Grayling (fish) (Kouki)

    • Grizzly bear (Jirayu)

    • Canada lynx

    • whooping crane

    • pallid sturgeon (fish)

    • white sturgeon (fish)

  • Coalbed methane (CBM) and water

  • Bison hunt (buffalo)

  • Power plant/Helena

  • Power plant/near Yellowstone (Shine)

  • Pollution on Indian reservations (Yoo Mi)

  • snowmobiles

  • land use/population explosion

  • hardrock mining/mine reclamation


    SCHEDULE for RESEARCH PAPER:
    Wk. 1 Choose Topic
    Wk. 2-3 Find, read, summarize articles (write Sum.-Resp. Essays)
    Wk. 3 Research proposal is due
    Wk. 3 Outline is due
    Wk. 4 First draft is due
    Wk. 5 Final draft is due

    FIND A TOPIC FOR YOUR RESEARCH PAPER
    Rules:
  • Your topic must have something to do with the ENVIRONMENT (so that you can use what you have learned in the core class)
  • Your topic must have MONTANA in it.
  • Two people may do the same topic; however, they may not have the same LANGUAGE BACKGROUND. Also, do not make your papers SIMILAR; take different approaches. You may share sources.

    Use KEYWORDS to find appropriate articles in the library. You should have an appropriate article by MONDAY. Please tell Mr. Leverett when you have a topic that you want, or an article that you want.

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