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In 1000 words please describe your final presentation topic. Your final essay and presentation will be on the same topic. This topic will be drawn and inspired from the environmental issues you have been exposed to in class this semester. In order to write this essay, you need to have discussed it with me on the course’s Forum. See relevant Announcement on NYUClasses. Use Arial 10pt single-spaced fonts. Cite sources in the footnotes in 5pt fonts. You must use this Word template. A penalty of 20% applies to deviations from those instructions.

Below is what my final essay and presentation be on:

i would like to focus my final essay on the topic of deforestation. I would like to focus on areas such as Asia (Hong Kong, China). i would like to talk about current situation, threats, solutions. You can also compare between cities in China and Hong Kong.

A GUIDE TO WRITING YOUR GEOGRAPHY TERM PAPER

The purpose of this guidebook is to aid students in writing research papers in introductory college-level geography courses.

Choosing a Topic:

Choose a topic narrow enough to find specific information, but not so narrow that you cannot find enough information. Before committing to a topic, scan a database to see if you will be able to find enough information on that topic.
 Please limit your topic to a United States National Monument or Park feature. This paper should be between 8-10 pages, including the bibliography. Do not exceed font size 12 or more than 1.5 spacing.

Example from Physical Geography:
Too broad: Volcanoes
Too narrow: The Effect of the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens on the regeneration of plant species
Appropriate: The Geographical Impact of the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

Example from Physical Geography:
Too broad: Rivers
Too narrow: Formation of The Grand Canyon
Appropriate: The Geographical and Geological formation of the Grand Canyons South Rim

Gathering Information:

Start early! You must use appropriate articles… this means NO WIKIPEDIA. Please use published papers- try using https://scholar.google.com (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as a starting point.

Your objective in writing a geography research paper most often is to assemble information from a variety of sources of data into a coherent argument to demonstrate to your instructor that you understand the material. Often you want to add a different perspective for looking at the data, one which has not been introduced by a previous writer. Therefore, when searching for materials, don’t expect to find a book or article with the exact title of your topic. If you find such a book or article, there is probably little that you can add to the subject.

Helpful hint: Look for an up-to-date book or article on your subject, and scan the bibliography. This is a great technique to gather additional sources for your paper.
Acceptable Sources- Journals, books, edited chapters in books, and government documents are the most widely accepted sources for a research paper in Geography. Encyclopedias, newspapers, and textbooks usually are not considered adequate sources for a research paper, although they may be used as supportive material.

Materials on the Internet may or may not be appropriate. One of the problems with the Internet is that much of the material has not undergone the process of peer review. Through peer review, materials are examined by other specialists on the subject and judged for their worthiness for publication; this, however, does not mean that the material is without criticism from others. Government documents accessed through the Internet are acceptable sources of information; check on the website address to see if it has a .gov suffix.

Students may assume that National Geographic is a geographical journal. However, it is a popular magazine. Although you may refer to an article from National Geographic in your paper, it has not undergone a rigorous peer review process and is more geared for general information.

Some Noted Geographical Journals:
1. Annals of the Association of American Geographers
2. The Professional Geographer
3. Geographical Review
4. Progress in Human Geography
5. Progress in Physical Geography

Geography’s interrelationship with other physical and social sciences should not be forgotten. Geological, biological, sociological, and economic journals may also be of benefit to your paper.

Writing the Paper:

Introduction/Literature Review: You will need to provide your thesis statement, the argument you will pursue throughout the paper. You will probably also want to inform your reader why this is an important issue to examine. The introduction should also provide the reader with an overview of the topics and the order in which they will be covered within the paper. This will be an opportunity to introduce many of your resources and background that you will go in to more detail later with.

Think carefully about how you begin your paper. Simply stating your topic is not likely to generate much interest from your reader.

Examples of Thesis Statements from Physical Geography:

Not Acceptable: In this paper I will discuss global warming and the increased incidence of hurricanes in the Southeastern U.S.

Appropriate: The frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the Southeastern U.S. has risen dramatically since the 1990s (source). Scientists have noted that some of the warmest average global temperatures over the past 100 years have also occurred since the 1990s, suggesting that there is a causal link between global warming and hurricane development (source). This paper
will examine the connections between human-induced global warming and the increased incidence of hurricanes, and the impact that future warming may have on the Southeast United States.

Body:
The body of your geography paper is basically going to be a literature review. Thus, you are presenting data or providing evidence from other specialists in a clear and logical fashion that will eventually lead to the drawing of conclusions from that data. Personal opinions are usually not relevant in this type of paper. (Avoid the use of pronouns such as I, me, and you.)

Make sure that you connect all evidence to your thesis. Do not present a collection of facts, theories, etc. which the reader must fumble through on his/her own.

Make sure you provide clear transitions from one idea to another. Depending on the length of your paper, you may want to subdivide the body into smaller segments with headings.

Students often forget that papers written for geography classes need to have a solid connection with geography. This is easy to forget, given that geography overlaps with other disciplines. Connecting your paper with ideas from the course is an excellent way to demonstrate understanding of concepts learned in the course. Just adding a map to the end of the paper is not sufficient to declare your paper geographical. Many other disciplines use maps to express a certain idea.

Conclusion:
Restate your thesis and link the conclusions drawn from your research back to the thesis. Be sure to state the applications or implications of your argument. Suggest future areas of research.

Citations:
All information taken from sources must be cited, as shown below. Even if a student puts a source’s thoughts into his/her own words (paraphrasing), the student must still give credit to the author. Plagiarism is the stating of facts or ideas without giving proper credit to the original source of the statement or idea. Some students try to circumvent this process by quoting long sections by an author; this often comes across to the reader as the writer simply filling space.

Often students have trouble deciding when citations must be used. Some general rules can guide you:
1. If an idea is completely original, then no citation is necessary.
2. Statements of common knowledge need no citation.
3. Specific statements, ideas, or data not commonly known must be cited.

Example from North American Regional Geography:

1. After reviewing numerous sources on the motives for migration of Mexicans to the United States, the student proposes a new model to explain this process. (Since this is an original idea of the student, no citation is necessary.)
2. Mexico is a major source of immigrants to the United States. (This is common knowledge and no citation is required.)
3. In 2000, 1.5 million Mexicans crossed the border into the state of California. (This is very specific data unlikely to be known by most people, and therefore needs to be referenced.)

Citations within the Text and Bibliography:
Students should consult the course syllabus to determine which style is expected from specific Geography professors. The following material has been adapted from the APA documentation style, and is based upon the author-date system of citation. More information on APA style can be found in A Writer’s Resource: A Handbook for Writing and Research by Maimon, Peritz, and Yancey or on the Writing Center website (www.svsu.edu/writingcenter/writing-resources.html). You may also use www.citationmachine.net (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Journal Article:
MacLachlan, I. and R. Sawada. (1997). Measures of inequality and social polarization in
Canadian metropolitan areas. The Canadian Geographer, 41(1), 377-97.
In-text citation should appear like this: (MacLachlan and Sawada, 1997)

Article from electronic journal-accessed through a database:
De Sousa, C.A. (2005). Policy Performance and Brownfield Development in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. The Professional Geographer, 57 (2), 312-327. Abstract retrieved
August 22, 2007, from WilsonSelect database.
In-text citation should appear like this: (DeSousa, 2005)

Website:
National Weather Service. (2004). Thunderstorm, tornadoes, lightning: A preparedness
guide. Retrieved from http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/ttI.pdf
In-text citation should appear like this: (National Weather, 2004)

Book:
Cutter, S. (1993). Living with risk: The geography of technological hazards. New York:
Routlege.
In-text citation should appear like this: (Cutter, 1993)

Chapter from an Edited Book:
Furley, P.A. (1998). History and destiny of Middle American forests: The inheritors of
the Maya landscape. In B. Maloney (Ed.), Human activities and the tropical rain
forest: Past, present, and possible future (pp. 101-32). Amsterdam, Holland: Kluwer.
In-text citation should appear like this: (Furley, 1998)

Charts, Tables, Photos, and Maps:

If you include a chart, table, photo, or map reproduced from some other source, you must also include the source for this material. If you include supplemental resources, make sure that you make a reference to them in the paper (e.g. See Figure 1). An instructor is usually more impressed with supplemental material that requires the student to compose or manipulate the data, instead of cut and paste from some other source. If you construct a chart, table, or map using Excel, Word, GIS, or some other program, you must provide the source for the data. Photos included in a paper that are taken by the author must say so in the paper.

You can choose power point or paper

Assignment Directions

Discussion: Mr. Smith brings his 4-year-old to your office with chief complaints of right ear pain, sneezing, mild cough, and low-grade fever of 100 degrees for the last 72 hours. Today, the child is alert, cooperative, and well hydrated. You note a mildly erythemic throat with no exudate, both ears mild pink tympanic membrane with good movement, lungs clear. You diagnose an acute upper respiratory infection, probably viral in nature. Mr. Smith is states that the family is planning a trip out of town starting tomorrow and would like an antibiotic just in case.

Create a communication plan for Mr. Smith and/or families for both prescriptive and non-prescriptive drug therapies. Describe what you would tell Mr. Smith and the child. Provide resources that Mr. Smith could access which would provide information concerning your decision.

Assignment Requirements:

*****This Assignment may be submitted in a PowerPoint presentation with at least 10 slides or as an APA formatted paper of no more than five (5) pages excluding title page and references.

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
• consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Your writing assignment should:

APA fomat

• follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and

Final Project: Problem Statement

This week, you will formulate a concise statement of the problem.

Most environmental health issues involve a variety of elements with overlapping or distinct causes, stakeholder groups, and solutions. Selecting an important, specific element of the issue is essential when formulating realistic ways to address and improve the environmental issue. This specific aspect of the issue is known as the problem and can be defined in a concise problem statement. The problem statement includes the purpose of the problem-solving effort, defines its scope, and states the specific objective of the problem-solving effort in the form of a question.

The three elements of the statement are—explaining how things should be; identifying a significant gap; and asking a question about one major way to improve the current situation. For example:

• The food you purchase should be free from levels of pesticide residues that are hazardous to human health, but many commercially used pesticides have not been tested using newer techniques to detect harm that they may cause during prenatal development or childhood. Should the EPA require that pesticides used on food crops be reevaluated using the new tests to ensure that children are fully protected, and if so, which tests?
• Employees who work with lead have a right to expect that their health will be protected if their workplace adheres to the OSHA lead standard, but the OSHA lead standard has not been updated since 1978, despite a great deal of new epidemiologic and toxicologic research about lead toxicity. Should the OSHA lead standard be revised, and if so, what should the new provisions be?
• Consumers often trust that products and services that they purchase are safe unless they are advised otherwise. Recently, nail salons have been the focus of worker safety initiatives because they use hazardous chemicals such as methacrylates, acetates, toluene, and formaldehydes. Are consumers adequately protected from hazardous chemicals when they receive services in nail salons?

The process of developing a problem statement is extremely useful because you will choose a defined focus, which will guide the rest of the work leading to a proposed solution to the problem.

For this assignment: The chosen topic is attached

• Choose a specific aspect of the topic that you selected last week as your problem.
• Define the environmental or occupational problem affecting human populations that you will analyze for your final project.
• Write your problem statement in 2–3 sentences in a Microsoft Word document. These sentences should be questions that you intend to explore in your research paper.
• Justify, in 3 to 5 double-spaced pages, why you chose to focus your analysis of this multifaceted issue to the specific problem as stated in your problem statement