Student Websites
Updated 17 November 2005
You are required to construct an original
website on a topic in animal physiology. The topic must be approved by a course
instructor who will also serve as your advisor.
Your website will constitute most of your recitation grade. Websites must be created using Microsoft
Word and saved as web pages (.htm files).
Click here
for information on how to map a network drive, save your web pages, and access
your website.
Due
Dates
Sep 2 – Send an email to Dr. Plummer
confirming that you can in fact read and write to your Z drive.
Sep 16 (noon) - Create your home page,
name it “index.htm”, and save it to your Z drive. It must include:
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your name
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a non-white background color
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a date stamp
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the sentence: "This website was created by [your name]
as a project in the Animal Physiology Class [semester, year] at Harding
University."
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a link to the Current Student Website page (www.harding.edu/plummer/animphys/currentwebsites.htm)
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a Harding University email link to you
Sep 30 (noon) - Selection of topic (email Plummer). A good way to
choose a topic is to scan each chapter of Hill et al. to determine which
general physiological area (e.g., osmoregulation, energetics, digestive
physiology) interests you the most. In
other words, narrow it down by first choosing a chapter.
Oct 7 (noon) - Update home page with a tentative title and an
image of your taxon
7 Oct – 18 Nov Update website regularly
Nov 18 (noon) - Website completed; grading begins; a
penalty of 10% per day will be assessed for late websites
Nov 29 - Presentation of Websites
Guidelines
Links to
electronic search services available to you are found on the Seminar website. Organismal physiology is not a new biological
discipline and quality papers exist from past decades. Thus, many important papers were published
before the advent of electronic searches in the late 1980s. The best way to become aware of older papers
is to search the Literature Cited of more recent papers, especially those of
review papers.
1.
Topics should focus on selected aspects of the physiology of
a single non-human, non-domesticated, animal species (or group of
closely-related species).
2.
Content and literature references should reflect
“state-of-the-art” knowledge regarding your topic. Obtaining papers through interlibrary loan
can sometimes take a while so do not procrastinate!
3.
Content should be factual, appealing, and professional
looking. Avoid excessive “fluff”.
4.
Websites should be easy to navigate and easy to read.
5.
Literature references in text, tables, and figures must be
in proper name and year format (check Seminar
Website) and each must be linked to the literature cited. Most of the references should be primary
literature and no more than 20% can be from non-journal web materials.
6.
You must get permission to use copyrighted figures or images
and must indicate such in a small font below the figure or image. You also
should have a link to the appropriate vendor site if you mention a particular
product by name.
7.
Your website should be inclusive but concise, and have high
quality text content (inclusive means that you have included all the major papers and covered all substantive
information on your topic to date).
8.
Other
contents:
a. 8-12 pages, each linked to the home page; URLs
will be:
www.harding.edu/plummer/animphys/studentwebsites/username/filename.htm
b. appropriate images
c.
data summarized in the form of Tables and Graphs
d.
links to other websites on the topic
Grading
Followed instructions (10%)
Overall appearance and ease of navigation
(10%)
Image appropriateness and quality (5%)
Content (75%)
Introduction (includes objectives,
background information, and why the topic is scientifically interesting)
Use of primary literature
Data presentation (text, tables, and
graphs)
Discussion (statements are supported with
data)
Literature Cited (Beware! – this is a very common source of errors)
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correct
format and use of name-and-year system both in the text and the Literature
Cited
-
cite
each reference and reference each citation
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each
citation is linked to text citation
Plagiarism
You
are advised that your website may be electronically analyzed to determine its
similarity to existing websites.
Self-Assessment Table
Copy and paste this table to a Microsoft Word page, fill it in, and
attach it to an email to plummer@harding.edu. Do not reveal
your self-assessment scores to anyone.
Failure to submit this completed form by noon
12 November will result in a penalty on your website grade. |
% |
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Overall, I
estimate that I (name: was responsible
for the following percentage of my team’s website. |
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Overall, I estimate that my partner (name:
was responsible for the following percentage of my
team’s website.
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Overall, I estimate that my partner (name:
was responsible for the following percentage of my
team’s website.
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Total
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100
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