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ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES
You will complete weekly assignments designed to assist you in collecting
information and sources for your final project in this class. With each
successive assignment, you will develop a profile of the city you have
chosen to focus on for the quarter. The first assignment will be to choose
your city. Please refer to the list of cities that has already been developed
(see attached sheet). It is important that the city you chose to focus
on has adequate information that is easily obtained. The cities on the
attached sheet have already been evaluated for the necessary information
for successful completion of the final project. If you are interested
in choosing another city please ask John for permission.
Guidelines for all assignments (including Assignment 1).
1. On each weekly assignment, please include your name, discussion section,
and the specific questions you are answering. Double-space your answers.
2. For answers to each question, be sure to include the sources of your
information. See below section for proper formatting of references.
3. For answers to each question, be sure to include the year that the
information was collected or published. It is acceptable to have information
from different years; however, this is not preferred.
4. Keep track of the sources that you use to answer the questions for
each assignment. You will be using them in developing the final project.
5. You can collaborate with other students in the class during the research
gathering phase during weekly assignments. However, each student must
turn in their own assignment, and follow the guidelines described here.
Grading for the weekly assignments and the final assignment will be based
on individual work.
6. Assignments turned in late for unexcused reasons will be accepted, but
discounted 10% for being late plus 10% for every additional week they are late.
Formatting style for references
This class will use the Chicago Manual of Style formatting style for
citing references. Use the Author-Date system for citing references. References
need to be cited immediately following the information that you obtained
from the specific reference. In addition, for the final project, you will
create a list of all the references you used for the final project. Examples
of author-date bibliographic formatting style can be found at the following
web page: http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/chicago.html#authordate.
Examples:
Book, single author, in reference list ?
Holmlund, C. 2002. Impossible bodies: feminity and masculinity at the
movies. New York: Routledge.
Book single author, within the body of the assignment ?
[put citation at the end of the sentence or information] ……. (Holmlund
2002).
Website, in reference list ?
University of Georgia, "Points of Pride," University of Georgia,
http://www.uga.edu/profile/pride.html. Retrieved 2 January 2005.
Website, within the body of the assignment ?
[put citation at the end of the sentence of information] ….. (University
of Georgia).
Helpful Hints and Suggested Sources: The information you will be asked
to gather about your city throughout the quarter is typically available
for all cities. A few sources are listed below that are good places to
start in beginning this and future assignments. These sources do not contain
all needed information. Different cities will have different sources and
ways of communicating information. You are expected to search out and
utilize all resources available to you including the internet and university
library system.
• Atlas
• Encyclopedia
• Local Newspapers
• City Government web pages
• City Tourism and Information web pages
• Census Data (available on-line)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (www.noaa.gov)
• Weather Channel web page
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