Write an overview of the geography and local environmental conditions without humans and/or pre-settlement. This section can be relatively short, up to three pages of text. Do your best to vividly describe the landscape in detail (for example, it has rolling hills, or is built on a series of inlets), including the climate type, the underlying geology, and/or flora and fauna. Try to make this section as engaging as possible. You can add graphics (with captions) at this point or add them later in the final submission.
2) An analysis of how human habitation has changed the environment over time, from the earliest human settlement to present. This can include descriptions of historical land use and development, agriculture, transportation, industry, etc. Who were the earliest settlers of this region and how did they live here? Who came after? Are there legacy land uses such as tanneries or mills that have left an imprint todayeither in the form of disamenities like brownfields or other remnant landscape elements? This section could be perhaps three pages long depending on what you can document.
3) An assessment of Ellicott City, Maryland today. You will document a contemporary environmental issue in the town, describing it in some detail and laying out the various positions of stakeholders around this issue. Think critically about these positions and weigh in with your own take on them. In addition, how would you characterize the town in terms of housing styles, neighborhood design, and street patterns? What about demographics? Census data is easy to get and adds some meat to your analysis. How do residents get to work? Is there room set aside for recreation? Describe the activity spaces of typical residents and their uses of the local environment. Reflect on the imprint of the past on the present in terms of land uses, and extrapolate to the future. What does the town look like in 20 | 50 | 100 years? What is the level of awareness among the residents about environmental or sustainability issues? Does the town have a Sustainability Plan, and if so, what are its recommendations? Are there efforts in the town to add parks or open space? This section of the paper should be three to four pages long.
Additional Important Notes:
– Throughout the research process, you should be thinking about a thesis that drives your paper. While youre in the process of creating an outline and amassing your sources, think of the biggest take-home point that you want a reader to have about your citys environmental history. Many students have success by focusing on some geographic feature such as a location or an important natural resource, or an event that has shaped the life of your town and affected its development trajectory.
– High value is placed on developing original sources, and this especially includes interviews, site visits, and archival work. Reach out to librarians, historians, and naturalists in your town (and remember they need to go into the source list as well).
– Make ample use of maps (including locator maps showing where the town is with respect to the state or territory it is in); also photos, sketches, tables, and other graphics are welcome and do not add to the page total. Enhance the readability of your paper by embedding these graphics in the body of the paper and please do not forget to include captions with a cited source of the information this is very important! This citation should also go in the source list.
– You should have at least 10 sources, including at least five scholarly ones (books, monographs or peer-reviewed journal articles). Websites, newspaper articles, government sources, data tables, photos, interviews, and maps ALL need to be documented and listed in the bibliography. Be scrupulous about giving credit to others for their work. Please use APA formatting (for guidelines, see http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa). This means no footnotes or endnotes, but rather in-text citation (Smith 2014). Then all cited sources are additionally provided in a source list at the end of the paper.
– Make your paper as technically perfect as possible: work in drafts, proofread, and format your paper carefully and please be sure to include page numbers, one-inch margins and double-spacing. A cover sheet is not necessary, and neither are running headers or footers.
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*I also provided examples of papers in the past. Do not copy from these papers, but use them as references. I understand that in the examples, students have used first-person perspectives, which imply that you can use them as well. In addition, students in the past have included personal anecdotes, which are not needed and that you really cannot provide (obviously). I was born in 2003, and you can fake personal anecdotes with that info!
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