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The next step in project development is to settle on one idea (this idea needn’t be set in stone, but you have to start somewhere), find at least two resources (only one of these may be a web link; the other has to be a book or article) directly related to your idea, and write a preliminary proposal. On Thursday, people will give short oral presentations to the class to familiarize all of us with what you’re thinking. If you already know someone that you expect to partnering with, then you can prepare a joint proposal (maximum 2 people per group at this point) as long as the two of you prepare the proposal together, each of you meets the 2 resource criterion (for a total of at least 4 resources with 2 of them being books or articles), and each of you completes item e below individually.

Here's what we need to hear about in your proposal:

  1. What do you expect to learn by doing this project?

  2. What makes the project interesting?

  3. What will you photograph?

  4. How will you photograph?  That is, what special equipment and supplies will be required?

  5. Are there special requirements for space in which to do your project?

Note that the project needs to be more than simply taking a cool photo or series of photos. See item #1 above. There needs to be an academic goal of learning something about the way nature works. An exception to this would be a project whose primary goal is to demonstrate the use of a particularly complicated technique. Just getting the technique to work could take much of the time we have available.

If you need to use any of my references, plan to drop by my office Wednesday after 9 AM. The only time I'll be away is 1-2 PM.

Email your written report in a Word file by 10 AM Thursday. Organize the report like so:

  1. Title

  2. Author(s)

  3. Numbered list of responses to items 1 to 5.

  4. References (include authors, title, journal (or book or URL), volume #, page, date)

  5. For each reference, tell how you think the reference will be useful to you in developing your project idea.