5 Draft Scholarly Project

Draft Scholarly Project

Your Draft Scholarly Project is due this Friday at 9am and is 10% of your final grade. One of your group members must email the project to your instructor(s).

Prepare a scholarly analysis of a pressing problem in Canada’s oceans, guided by the instructors. Canvas written documents ranging from academic papers to parliamentary records and from government reports to community newsletters. Review other records, including conventional and electronic media reports. Interview people with knowledge or experience in the field. Synthesize and distill academic and other forms of knowledge into an analytical assessment of the challenge. Done in a group of 3-4 students. Supports learning outcomes 1-3. Assessment will focus on the submitted work itself: the group collaboration aspect of this assignment will be assessed under “Participation and Collaboration”.

The DRAFT Instructions:

• This will come out to approximately 2-3 pages, plus bibliography, although longer is acceptable
• Single spaced, Times New Roman or other clear font, 12 pt
• An outline of the project with the following required components:
  • All group member names
  • A draft title (this should make your topic clear)
  •  Introduction
    • An introduction to the topic and your main argument
  • Draft Literature Review
    • 1-2 paragraphs describing and referencing the literature you have started to work with
    • Discuss the arguments and main ideas that you are drawing from
  • Draft methods section
    • Your research methods: what have you already done, what do you plan on doing?
  • The Bibliography you have started (minimum 5 peer reviewed sources that you can use in the final version)

Assessment and Grading the Draft

Us this Marking Rubric to understand how the FINAL version will be evaluated, so you can start to work towards it. The Draft version will be evaluated based on whether or not you have included all of the required components listed above, the overall grammar and flow, and whether or not you are properly citing your work.

Marking Rubric: