Posted: March 29th, 2016

Where the wild things were reaction paper

REPARATION OF REACTION PAPERS Science today depends heavily on the free and rapid flow of information concerning new observations, results of experiments, and developing theories. The principle means of transmission of this information is the publication of reports in journals or magazines. This flow of information is important both to individuals involved in current research and to the general public. Our daily lives are profoundly influenced by the happenings in the scientific community. Several publishing companies have responded to the ready market of those individuals that “need to know” by offering science oriented magazines for the non-scientist. These magazines, along with the older, more established magazines of popularized science and the highly technical journals, regularly provide an abundance of information to be incorporated into our thinking. During this semester, as an exercise in information gathering, synthesis, and evaluation, you will be asked to read two journal articles and to write a brief swnmary of each of them and your reaction to one. These articles you read will be chosen, by you, from the publications listed on the reverse side, published in 2016, the articles you read will be a minimum of three pages in length, and they will deal with the specified subject matter. After you have read a journal article you are to write a short paper briefly summarizing the article, and, for one article, giving your reaction to it. You should write about your new understanding of the topic, how well you feel that it was explained, if and how your outlook on animal biology .was changed after reading the article, etc. _ The paper for each article read is to take a specific form. It is to be typed, double-spaced, on one side.of an 8?5 x 11 inch whjte paper. Use Arial, Times or Times.,Roman size 12 font. Margins will be one.cinch at the top, right side, and bottom of the page; margin will be 1.5 inches on the left side. You are to give the proper citation of the article ( an example is given below) at the beginning of your essay (top of the first page). On the back of the page write your name, the name of the class, the topic of your paper Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg uand th