Term Paper: Students will research a specific natural disaster relating to one of the course topics (My topic is the 2017 flood in Bangladesh) and apply the 5 fundamental concepts to their event (pg. 12-13 of textbook). I have attached page 12 & 13 as pictures as well so you can refer to it. Students shall write a 400 – 600 word, double-spaced, term paper on the natural disaster, as will be covered in their annotated bibliography. I will also post the rubric so you can use that as well.

Embedded Citations Annotated Bibliographies, & Term Papers must all include at least 10 different, APA-style citations. At least 5 citations must be from “vetted” material. Vetted materials include peer-reviewed journals, NASA.gov, government “white pages”, National Geographic, books, ebooks, and newspapers. No more than 5 sources may be from any one source. Wikipedia citations may not count toward the 10, but it is a wonderful place to start looking for references. Google Scholar has access to peer-reviewed papers and government “white papers”. You shall use APA citations for your citations. These websites are reasonably straight forward: https://www.library.cornell.edu/research/citation/apa and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/.

Annotated Bibliography part: (10%): Students will research the same natural disaster, as will be covered in their term paper. The Annotated Bibliography will be at least 10 different, APA-style citations with 5 to 15 bullet points (at least 100 points) that will summarize, not quote, the information from that source. Also, the embedded form of each citation will be listed, the type of source (e.g. vetted textbook, vetted peer-reviewed journal, non-vetted blog, etc.), and the strength of the citation (i.e. poor, fair, or good). Bibliography has to have a cover page.

The bibliographical form of references must have a “hanging” paragraph indentation of 0.5”.