Kia ora koutou,
BIOL112 Students have their big guppy lab report due 11.55pm Fri 26 Aug. All Biology students and Forestry students have to take this course and pass this assignment so it’s quite important. Having said that, I don’t usually see many students struggling with it. Mostly they just want to check they are doing the APA referencing correctly.
The instructions for the report are in their Lab manual as an appendix on page 31. The Lab manual is here on their LEARN page: https://learn.canterbury.ac.nz/mod/resource/view.php?id=2222338
If you get questions on AskLIVE or at the desk here’s a few things to note but also refer them to make a Zoom appointment with me if needed or talk to another subject librarian if urgent and I’m not available.
- APA 7th referencing
- They MUST have 10 peer reviewed articles
- They are given 4 peer reviewed papers on LEARN already so only need to find 6 more
- Additional scholarly sources like books, conference papers etc encouraged on top of the 10 peer reviewed articles
- If they haven’t watched the lecture I gave they should as it is all about how to find sources for the report
- Scopus database is the recommended first place to search. There are plenty of articles about guppies and sexual selection
- I have provided them with a handout that shows them how to search Scopus with examples searches: K:\Academic-Support\Teaching\Subject-specific\Science\BIOL112-handout-2022-08.pdf
Any questions, feel free to contact me.
Nick