Geography 310: Geography of Louisiana
Quarter Project
I think writing is a fundamental tool for evaluating students’ academic growth. I think writing should be practiced as frequently as possible. Therefore you shall write and I shall read and critique. However, due to limitations that are specific to this course and to this university, I have had to make uncomfortable compromises on the nature of the writing assignment for this course.
The difficulty in creating a meaningful writing assignment have led me to believe the best way to handle this situation is to give you several options. The options are as follows.
Option
1) You may pick a chapter from the on-line textbook and rewrite it. I can help supply you with materials, but many of you may need to go to the library. At the very least, each chapter should have substantial, meaningful, well-written content. There should be at least one graphic (picture, graph, map, etc.) There should be some links, where such items are feasible. There should be a chapter outline. There should be a short chapter quiz.
Option
2) You may write a wholly new chapter for inclusion in the on-line textbook. This chapter may stand alone, or it may be a side-bar to an existing chapter, perhaps a “focus” section that would help clarify for readers some subject or peculiar institution within Louisiana.
Option
3) You may write a paper regarding the upcoming congressional redistricting dispute. I will garner for you 15 variables that describe the state at the county, or perhaps census tract level. You are to divide the state into congressional districts according to a formula of your own device. You will then write no less than five pages explaining the methodology used to divide the state.
Option
4) Make up you own paper that reports on some topic in Louisiana, but from a geographic perspective.
Decide which of these you are going to do and write a one-half page prospectus. This will be due one week from today.
If you have questions, you are
obligated to ask Dr. Graves
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