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INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING COURSE PAPERS AFTER JUNE 2001 As of November, 2004, scholarly papers for courses are advised but optional until a person does ECO 800.
The purpose of an IEE Project NatureConnect course paper is to help the student organize his/her course experiece and apply a working knowledge of the coursework in a manner that actively contributes to personal and global balance. The final paper offers course learnings that integrate, validate and contribute important concepts, ideas and experiences to nature connected psychology and the public. To meet this manifest, the paper consists of two parts:
Part One: A. During, or at the end of your work in this course select magazines, journals, newsletters, ezines, or other publications, online or otherwise that you think would or should be interested in your work with NSTP or in NSTP in general. B. Contact the editor of one or more publications by phone or write a letter of inquiry and introduce him/her to how a short article about some aspect of NSTP would benefit the publication and/or its readers. Show how your article ties in with or extends a previous article, current news event, or the purpose of their publication. Get an OK to submit an article to the publication, its length, how to submit (email, postal mail etc.) and anything special the editor might suggest. (You can often just submit a letter to an editor and then call to find out if it is accepted for publication) C. Write the first 250-1000 words of your paper (or more if an editor requests more) as an article you submit to the editor of your choice that you have contacted.
Part Two: As part of the remainder of your paper, it is advised for practice to use the APA Manual of Style Be sure at this point you are aware of the option offered by the cooperative community process for certification or a degree as it can guide your choices in writing your papers. Please address the following four paragraphs in a manner that integrates, validates and contributes important concepts and ideas to the profession or general field of nature connected psychology and the public. Show how these concepts support the points you have made in you article in Part One Whenever possible include the information and standards required for your dissertation or project in lieu of dissertation. What you collect and learn now will be useful later and save you much time and energy in producing your dissertation. The information and standards are located at http://www.ecopsych.com/dissertation.html The concepts should include the following areas: 1. When you enrolled in the Degree program you stated you had certain needs and goals in mind. How has this course helped with respect to meeting them? How are you applying, or intend to apply what you have learned in the future? 2. Please identify what you think and feel are four or more most significant aspects of this course, state why they are significant, and show how, (document with examples, including quotes from the course participants and yourself) the course process contributes to personal, social and environmental wellness. 3. From this course describe and document (with examples, including quotes from the course participants and yourself) at least one example of each of the eight Natural System Thinking Process Basics (described below,) that you experienced during the course and its value to yourself and society. 4. What challenges does the course subject present, how do you think you can help meet them?
DOCUMENTATION You can use your course experiences just as you would what a book might state. Call it empirical or phenomenological evidence. Give the posting a name cite its source, the date, group name, participants name. You could even make a web page containing the info and cite it. If you have read or find anything else on the topic that adds info to this point in your paper, cite it too. Figure out a keyword that covers the essence of the point you are making and see what comes up in Google that you can cite, too. Look for web sites that offer articles. Encyclopedia Britannica has some, many other sites do, too. Look under keywords at the site and see what articles fit your keyword. If I cover the point in the Web of Life book or Reconnecting With Nature, use them too. > > I find writing a
3-page 'required' scholarly paper very
I figure anybody who completes a course like this as a member in good standing gets an A until somebody or something convinces me otherwise. Fits into both worlds that way, eh? If you are not going to learn anything from doing the paper, why do it? Most folks do learn something in the process A scholarly paper requires citing the source of information and perhaps quoting it. Since our contact with nature and each other is the source of our information, plus the books, how hard can it be to snip out quotes from the emails that demonstrate the point you are making or vice-versa. (i.e. go through the emails, including your own and pick out quotes that demonstrate the points you are trying to make and design the paper that way. Either way, I think you'll learn something valuable. "Thanks Mike! This was very helpful. As I find myself dusting off my "academic repetoire" '
FACULTY CONTACT INFORMATION Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. Communications should take place during daytime working hours
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