Articles for extra credit.

Read and summarize either of these sets of articles according to the criteria below.  (Do both articles in either option 1 or option 2).  If you find a different article that interests you, please check with me first about its suitability.

Option 1: The rice genome
              Rice 1        Rice 2

Option 2: Early evolution of angiosperms
                Angioevo1    Angioevo2

Summaries are due on the last Friday of classes (June 7).

Your extra credit paper should be double-spaced, 10 or 12 point font, and approximately 2 pages long. Here is how I will grade extra credit assignments that are summarizing an article:

1. Article summary - what are the main points of the article? (5 pts.)

2. What are four ways that the article relates to botanical concepts we discussed in class? (4 pts.)

3. What did you personally learn from this? (1 pt.)

The quality and thoughtfulness of your writing counts throughout; you will need to do a very good job to get all 10 points.
 

Seminars for extra credit.

Your extra credit paper should be double-spaced, 10 or 12 point font, and no more than 2 pages long. Here is how I will grade extra credit assignments that are summarizing talks:

1. Background (1 pts.) - What biological system was being investigated? What were the big questions or problems addressed?

2. Hypotheses (2 pts.) - What were the specific questions they were trying to test?

3. Results: how did the data support the hypotheses? (2 pts.)

4. Conclusions (2 pts.)

6. What did you personally learn from this? (1 pts.)

Total: 10 points.
 

The quality and thoughtfulness of your writing counts throughout; you will need to do a very good job to get all 10 points.