BIOL 438-01W, BIOLOGY SEMINAR

ORAL REPORT

1. About 1 or 1 1/2 weeks before your presentation, submit to me (McLaughlin) a one-page article pertinent to your topic that I can reproduce for the class. A bonus question will be asked about this reading.

2. Mrs. Wood will help you with the Power Point program for your slides.

3. You may advertize your talk one week before the presentation. Mrs. Wood will help you develop a creative ad.

4. On the day of your talk, have 15 copies of your outline with at least two pertinent references to hand out to the class. This should be no more than one or two pages.

5. Although the body of your talk is the main thing, do not forget the importance of your Introduction and Conclusion/Summary. Formulate objectives for your presentation.

6. For each seminar presentation, two students will be assigned the responsibility of asking a pertinent and intelligent question about the presentation.

7. Fill out a biographical information sheet.

8. Speech Evaluation Form.

WRITTEN PAPER

1. TOPIC - GLOBAL WARMING

Possible approaches include

2. ADVISORS -

You will be assigned an advisor who will proofread your paper and offer suggestions on style, clarity of outline, use of references, grammar and "awks". The will NOT write the paper for you.

It is important that your rough draft be equivalent to the completed paper.

3. WRITING THE PAPER

- Include an Introduction and a Conclusion/Summary.

- The body of the paper should have a logical outline.

- About 10 pages long.

- A bibliography should include Literature Cited and perhaps References using the style indicated in the Documenting The Paper handout. Limit use of Internet/Webpage citations.

- Follow the deadlines given in the Course Syllabus

- You might try a visit to the University Writing Center.

4. REVIEWERS

The most frequent comments from our outside reviewers were "poorly written" and "inappropriate use of literature and references." They will be submitting to me a list of helpful hints and guidelines, which I will pass on to you along with their suggested point values for different sections of the paper. Our reviewers are respected biologists in whom we have the utmost confidence. They have read student senior papers from previous seminars so they are experienced in this task. Our reviewers are tough, but fair and have given very useful feedback

to students.