SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE COMMON GOOD- GEO 300 WINTER 2013 Recitation Information & CT Paper Instructions

Your TA: Tami Darden   Office: Peavy 100 (mailbox in Wilkinson 104)  Office Hours: Tu, Th 12:30-1:30 or by appt.

Recitations  Week 1: Intro, CT Papers  Week 2: Personal Impact; Carbon Calculator Assignment Due  Week 7: Group Presentations *CT #3 Due in Recitation  Weeks 8-10: Group Presentations *CT #4 due in my mailbox by 5pm, March 18

CTs: Thesis Statements  First, write down your position.  Your position statement is also known as your “thesis statement”, and will be in your “Interpretation” section.  You can come back and edit this position after you’ve developed the rest of your argument.  See this link for guidance on writing a good thesis statement:  html html

Organizing Themes/Sub Points  Then, come up with themes in your research that support your point. These themes are “sub-points.”  Each sub-point should directly relate to your thesis statement.  Write down each of your sub-points as a “topic sentence” that states your sub-point and explains how it supports your thesis statement.  Topic sentences should answer: “How does my statement address the issue?” and “Why is my statement valid?”

Organization of the Analysis  File your supporting evidence (facts and conclusions from peer-reviewed sources) under the appropriate sub-topic.  For each piece of supporting evidence you wish to use, “paraphrase” (or summarize) the point in your own words, or use a direct quote with quotation marks.  Cite each piece of evidence you use like this (Authors, year: page on which you found the information). Important: Your citations need to be preceded/followed up with sentence(s) showing you understand the statement and how it supports your position!!

Tips  Don’t do it last minute. It’s too involved.  Everything in your Works Cited must be cited in your text; everything cited in your text must be in your Works Cited.  Never use a newspaper or magazines (Time, The Economist, Forbes, etc.)  No Wikipedia.  Use sources only from the 21 st century (2000- )  Questions about a source? me to check if it is appropriate.  Go to the Writing Center (Waldo 123)

Citations  It’s “cite”, not “site”.  Don’t abbreviate citations in bibliography (i.e., it’s not “JAWA”, it’s Journal of American Water Resources (in italics).  Can abbreviate volume/issue: Vol. 58, Iss. 2  In text citations:  (Brown, 2009, p58)  Or, “Brown (2009) states…”  (Brown, White & Black, 2009, p58).  If referenced more than once: (Brown, et al., 2009,…)

Format/Grammar/Logistics  Hard copies of papers—no exceptions  Staple your papers, with grade sheet ATTACHED ON THE BOTTOM (-15 points if missing!). INITIAL where indicated (-5 if missing!).  Use complete sentences.  Avoid using contractions in academic work: “it’s”, “that’s”, etc.  Sentences should be CONCISE and MEANINGFUL.

APA Reference Example:  Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Mood management across affective states: The hedonic contingency hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, Last name first Need this, in some form Date goes here-year is fine, unless monthly journal Italics for journal name Don’t forget those periods! (and where they are placed…) You do NOT need: doi number, URL (unless website source), or database source. You DO need date accessed for websites.

Simplifying  Rewrite the following, stated more simply: 1) “Considerable number of…” 2) “due to the fact that…” 3) “during the time that…” 4) “in view of the fact that…” 5) “it is often the case that…” 6) “it may however be noted that…” 7) “it would thus appear that…”

Answers “Considerable number of…” = many/most “due to the fact that…” = because “during the time that…”= while “in view of the fact that…”= since/because “it is often the case that…”= often “it may however be noted that…” = however “it would thus appear that…” = apparently/evidently

Go to your TA first. Office: Peavy 100, Tu/Th 12:30-1:30 or for appointment Questions about CT Papers?