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Rainforest Under Climate Change

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Please write a 5 pages scientific paper about "Impact ENSO has on Rainforest under climate change"  Learn to access electronic databases of the primary literature (Scientific Journals).  Most books have information that is already 4-5 years old or older.2.Read original research, understand results, and evaluate conclusions based on research.  Be critical! Ask yourself: do their results really support conclusions?3.Synthesize information from various studies and present different and/or similar points of view on a topic.  Science is not straightforward.  For example,most scientists will agree that CO2is increasing in the atmospherecausing global warming and sea level rise, but a lot of debate exists on the rates of sea level rise and local effects.  What are the different points of view? What kind of data andresults bring different scientists to different conclusions?4.Scientific writingis VERY different thanEnglish composition.Scientific writing is more direct, based on facts, uses data and logic to make sound points & conclusions. There is no room for “your opinion” unless you are an expert and then you can only use the 3 P words: possibly, probablyand potentiallyto present your “expert opinion”.Science is not a “belief”.5.Writing composition is still VERY important even in scientific writing-if you are writing a proposal, the reviewer is more likely to give you the money if your proposal hasnot only sound science and iscreative butis a comfortable read. If you know that your writing is weak-pick up some scientific and technicalwriting books TODAY-you can get used ones for very cheap on the web.•Use an introductory paragraph tointroduce your entire paper; what should the reader expect (college level writing).•Use introductory topic sentences for each paragraph.•Use a well-organized series of paragraphs each focusing on a different point, but with a common thread (write in the margin the topic in each paragraph as you go in your final drafts tocheck that each paragraph has a well focused topic).•Use transitional sentences between paragraphs-make it flow!6.The final objective is to learn about a topic of interest to you in detail;you will find each topic has a lot of depth in the scientific literature, the longer you keep looking for information, the more you will find (guaranteed). Citing references:•DO NOT QUOTE!!  You do not use quotations to quote information in scientific technical writing.  Put it in your own words and reference the author.  For example: CO2increased 10-fold over the last 100 years (Smith, 2008).  •Include quantitative information to make your point.  For example: CO2increased from 300 ppm to 350 ppm overthe last 100 years (Smith, 2008).  •In the text you need to include the author/authors if only 1-2 (Smith 2008, Jones and Smith 2000); if you have 3 or more it is referenced in text as (Smith et al. 1980).  Always list references in chronological order with the earliest work referenced first.•You can also use the reference as the subject: Jones and Smith (1980) found CO2increased 10-fold over the last 100 years.In this case,you only put the date in parentheses.  Jones et al. (1999) measured...•In your literature cited section at the end of your paper you should reference your source (authors, date, title, journal, volume, pages: bookinclude title book, section title, editors, publisher) and use hanging indent in your word processing program (use help if you do not know how).
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