What a college-level paper should look like!

To prepare you for the high-paying jobs you all want,
you need to learn how to think, write, and present your thoughts.

After you have collected your data for Project#1 and/or Project#2 for Vogeler's Geography 111, Human Geography, you will need to make tables in a spreadsheet program, such as Excel, to calculate values (totals and percentages), create attractive looking tables, make optional (but highly desirable) bar graphs, paste them into Word, etc. You will also need to know how to use a word processing program, such as Word, to insert Excel tables, format text, insert a "Landscape" map in "Portrait" text, page breaks, etc. Everybody (yes, that includes those who think they already know how to do these procedures) must use BITS to get assistance from people there who know about these projects and are ready to help you. BITS is located in the Old Library -- on the way to the New Library. On your project cover sheet, indicate the date and time of your visit(s); a signature from a BITS staff member is not necessary.

Learning computer skills while actually doing a project is the best way of learning. All these skills can be applied in other courses and, hopefully, in your careers. Because BITS is a free service, I will assume that you have learned the above mentioned skills when I grade both projects.

I have provided a basic outline of issues that I want you to address
when writing papers for Vogeler's Geography 111.

In WORD, use a "Header" to include your name, paper title, and page number at the top of each page.

Paper Title: must include the specific topic and geography of your paper

1) Introduction: Mention each part of the project.

2) Predictions: Be as detailed as you can by item and place (country, world region) but this should reflect your thoughts before your started collecting your data.

3) Patterns from My Data

q       Describe how you collected and categorized your data into item and place categories.

q       Discuss each category of items by world regions; also where you don’t have things from.

q      Use separate paragraph(s) for the discussion of each table  (and graph). Include tables (and graphs if you did them) as soon as you can after you talked about them. Don’t split tables on two pages.
Here are some things to do when creating tables for your projects.

q       Now relate back to your predictions. What did you discover?

4) World Map of your topic. Think about each element of the map: title, legend, sources. You have already made several maps for this course, so avoid previous errors.

5) Relate your eesearch findings to the slogan or metaphor: Describe in detail the slogan or metaphor you are using; cite percentages from your data to these ideas.

6) Conclusion: Make some general statements about what you learned doing this project in terms of your role in USA as it relates to the regions/countries of the world.