| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES |
November 5, 2004 |
Writing Assignment 2
Any student in this class may elect to use their paper grade for Writing Assignment I for Writing Assignment II. Generally speaking, the students that did well in the first assignment have proven to me that they know how to write and that they are able to apply the meteorological principles we have been discussing well. This is the reward for that, beyond the first grade.
You may choose to be released from Writing Assignment II and your grade on Writing Assignment I will also be used for this assignment.
Complete the following NEW assignment (we will be providing background for this in the next week or so).
Topic
The topic(and title) for your four page (EXCLUSIVE of figures and reference listings), double-spaced, typewritten in 12 pt (this is 12 pt type) paper (no more than 1 inch margins) is:
Diablo Winds: A Foehn -Type Wind in the San Francisco Bay Region
Format of the Paper
Note: Your paper MUST have the title below and the lettered sections (including titles) summarized below.
Your "paper" should have the following features:
The title MUST be:
| Diablo Winds: A Foehn -Type Wind in the San Francisco Bay Region |
The paper MUST have the following numbered and titled sections:
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I. Introduction (one paragraph--what you are going to do, why you are doing it--here you might mention here what foehn-type wind is, that they are observed in California and important weather pattern to study, thus establishing the purpose for your paper). II. General Discussion of Foehn-Type Winds in California ( two paragaphs or so mentioning things like what a foehn-type wind is, where in California they are a problem etc. Here you can put Diablo winds into the context of other similar winds, such as Santa Ana winds) III. Diablo Winds (Here you can use some of the same graphics as in the last homework assignment.) IV. Conclusions (one paragraph--should summarize major conclusions that relate to the title of the paper) V. References (See Format and Procedural guidelines for Writing Assignment 1) VI. Figures (Sequential, and numbered in the order that you refer to them in the text....see below) |
Structure of the Paper: Figures
The paper MUST have AT LEAST three illustrations. The figures should be drawn from either the textbooks, distributed reading or the online website with graphics for October 22, 2000 (day of a grass and brush fire in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills).
Figures should be selected carefully and thoughtfully so that they illustrate the point you are trying to make. Because they serve an important function, figures should also be reproduced in a readable format (i.e., large enough to be read and clearly copied).
The figures chosen MUST be:
Structure of the Paper: References
At LEAST TWO of the textbooks AND the journal article in the reader listed below MUST be included. Remember, each of these must appear at least once in the body of your text, using the format described in Writing Assignment I.You may refer to but do need not reference my lectures either in the text or the Reference section. Please note that the in-text citation for a Journal (magazine) article is different than that for a textblook. See Guidelines from the first Writing Assignment.
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Class Textbooks
In Reader (pp 386-389) (This is a journal article. See below how to refer to this in the text....easier than book citation
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The textbook citations and the website citation above are as they should appear EXACTLY in your Reference section (Section V). You may refer to material discussed in class but you do not need to provide a formal reference to it either in the text or in the reference section of your paper.
Format Guidelines
Apart from those stated above, exactly as in Writing Assignment 1 PLUS the following:
NO FOOTNOTES. NO DIRECT QUOTES. NO CONTRACTIONS
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Specific Rules for In Text Citations Here is the way to include a reference citation for a journal
article or a website publication in the body of your paper. "...Monteverdi (1973) showed that the pattern associated with Diablo winds occurs with regularity in the fall..." or "...the pattern associated with Diablo winds occurs frequently in the fall (Monteverdi, 1973)..." Specific Rules for Textbook Citations On the other hand, textbook citations are different. Suppose you read that tornadoes are rare in California on page 16 of a textbook. Then you would paraphrase this in your text and include the parenthetical reference WITH page number (only done for textbooks) "...Jones (1986, p. 16) has shown that tornadoes are infrequent in California..." or "...Santa Ana winds are foehn-type winds in Southern California (Rosenthal, 1972, p. 5-5)..." Reference Section at End of Paper In the reference section (your Section V), the complete citations are listed: (Book titles are underlined, journal article titles are italicized, websites are put in parentheses) Journal Article Example Monteverdi, J.P., 1973: "The Santa Ana Weather Type and Extreme Fire Hazard in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills." Weatherwise, 26, 3, 118-121. Textbook Example Rosenthal, Jay, 1972: Point Mugu Forecasters Handbook, Pacific Missile Range Technical Memorandum, 425 pp. |
Style Issues
As in Writing Assignment 1. Please review the Comments sheet for Writing Assignment 1.
Grade for Assignment
50% Meteorology
25% Format (Described Above)
25% Style (Proper Sentences/Spelling etc.)