Meteorology 3410: Assignment 8

This is not a book report of the sort where you provide a lot of personal opinion on what the author meant; rather, you are to review in your own words (without copying any of the original text):

• background of the research, i.e., what is the context of the study?
• purpose of the research
• research methodology
• results
• conclusions reached by the author about the results

Assigment

• Go to the AMS web page to see the types of journals that are available.
• Go to the library and look through the journals of the AMS for the past year.
• Very important Find an article that is intellegible and of interest to you and is well written:
  • it is not necessary to select a very theoretical paper or an overly long one
  • it must be an article- not a note or correspondence and not a review article
  • look for a paper that has a good intro that provides some context
  • make sure the article actually describes some significant research (i.e., there should be several figures, tables or other means to summarize results)
• Your review should contain the following:
  • title/author/affiliation
  • truncated version of original abstract in your own words that summarizes the research
  • couple paragraphs on context of research
  • 1 paragraph that describes purpose
  • few paragraphs to a page on methodology
  • 1+ page on research (can include copy of most significant figure or table)
  • summary of conclusions
• Your review should not contain the following:
  • why you chose the paper
  • that you liked or disliked it
  • your opinion on the validity of the research
  • what you did or did not understand
• Your review should be:
  • typed: double spaced lines. 12 point font.
  • proofed for spelling, grammar, and punctuation
  • make sure someone else reads your review before turning it in (make sure that person knows something about grammar and spelling)

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    Last updated on 13 October 1999