Assignment

A 3-5 page paper written on your chosen species. (write about Nihoa Finch)

Details of work to be done:

Each student will write a 3-5 page paper following the Written Report Guidelines. With your report you should include a bibliography that includes at least 3 different references that you used in the completion of your report. Remember, WIKIs are not acceptable as references. Be sure to follow the Bibliography Guidelines for your references. Every sentence must be constructed by you. Any sentence quoted will not be considered part of your report. Any sentence copied from a source will be considered plagiarized, and a zero will be assigned for this assignment. The research paper should be typed and a hardcopy submitted on the due date.

To receive full credit on this portion of this assignment you will need to include:

• Common name (in English) of the species

• Scientific name of the species, in proper format (e.g., Homo sapiens)

• A detailed physical description of the species (male and female might be different)

• Reproductive information of the species - how many offspring per year, length of gestation or incubation, how many mates at once, courtship ritual, age at sexual maturity, etc.

• How does this species obtain its energy and water - what does it eat and how does it stay hydrated?

• Biomes and specific habitats used by the species, and how it obtains shelter

• Specific geographic location of the species as it was before it became endangered

• Specific geographic location of the species, as it is today (be sure to indicate if today's range is the same as the historical range)

• Why is the number of individuals in the species on the decline?

• What specific actions are being done to help the species recover?

• Any other interesting information about the species

Guidelines for Written Reports

Papers written for this course are to be submitted in Turabian format, not MLA. Turabian is the standard format for dissertations and theses in the CSU system.

Font

• 12 point, Times New Roman

• Bold is only accepted in appropriate parts of the bibliography.

• Italics should only occur in scientific names, foreign language use, when listing a title of book or journal, and in appropriate parts of the bibliography.

Page format

• 1" margins top, bottom, left, and right (you have to modify this from the default)
• Single-spaced name and date only, right justified on the first 2 lines of page 1.
- "Bio 110", your student I.D., "assignment," and the like should not appear at the top of the page.

Title

• Centered, in regular 12 point font, with proper title capitalization
• No more than 1 blank line above or below
• Do NOT make a separate cover page!

Paragraphs

• Double-spaced (you will need to modify this from default)
• First line should be 5-space (one "tab") indented
• Left justified only (as opposed to left and right)
• No extra lines between paragraphs (be sure to use the MS Word option of "no spacing")
• Your first paragraph should start ~2" from the top of the page.
• Single space following end of sentence punctuation (e.g., period).

Text

• Black ink only

• No contractions or slang

- Example: "Can't" cannot be used, and "ain't" ain't no good neither.

• No spelling errors

• Numbers less than 10 are always written out. All numerals should be written out when starting a sentence.

- Example: All eight students had perfect attendance.
- Example: Ten students scored fewer than 55 points on the last exam.

• No quotes or "lifted" sentences. "The words you use should be your own" - Morrisey

- Do not quote or use sentences that were written by someone else and simple "lifted" and placed into your own document.

- Finding a copied sentence will result in an immediate zero on the assignment.

- Any quoted material was not written by you, and will, therefore, be ignored and not considered part of your paper. I see quotes in your paper as empty space.

• "Ping" free (see next page for details)

• When listing a fractional number, use a zero in the ones place

- Example: The probability of getting an "A" is in this class 0.19.

Attachment:- Bibliography-Guidelines-Fall-Canvas.pdf