Prefix - Suffix List for Word Quizzes
You will have a quiz the first day of each week over one of the seven sets of prefixes and suffixes. Each quiz is composed of 20 actual words that contain one or more of the word parts from your list. You will match the words to the meaning of the word part found in the sample. Each question is worth 2 points, for a total of 40 points per quiz.
Magazine Article Write-up Guidelines
Please organize your write-ups using the following format and sections:
1. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION (10 pts.) This format must be followed exactly!
For a magazine article:
Author’s last name, first initial. (issue year, month). Title of article. Name of magazine, page numbers.
Ex: Gardner, H. (1981, December). Do Babies Sing a Universal Song? Psychology Today, pp. 70-76.
For an Internet magazine article:
Author’s last name, first initial. (issue year, month). Title of article.
Name of magazine. Retrieved complete date from the World Wide Web: Complete URL address
Ex: Adler, J. (1999, May). Ghost of Everest. Newsweek. Retrieved May 19, 1999 from the
World Wide Web:
htttp://newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/20_99a/printed/int/socu/so0120_1.htm
2. INTRODUCTION (20 pts.) - Define or describe any complex or scientific terms in the title and tell why the subject of your article is important.
3. CONTENT (40 pts.) - What is the article about? What are the main concepts and ideas discussed? What was being investigated? What methods were used to find answers? What evidence or new information was discovered? Were any old ideas overturned or supported? This section should be the main portion of your review.
4. SUMMARY AND EVALUATION (20 pts.) - Restate the main areas of importance in the article and discuss the quality of it from your perspective as a Biology student. Did you find it interesting? Useful? Readable? Boring? Would you recommend the article to the other members of the class? Explain your answers. Do not leave out this important section. This is the only section of your write-up in which you can express your own opinion about the content of the article.
5. COPY OF THE ARTICLE (10 pts.) - Please attach a neat, clear copy of the article you have read. Do not tear out pages from a magazine! If the copy is flawed, make another one. Do not highlight or mark on the copy you turn in to me. Make an extra copy if you would like to mark it as you read.
6. ARTICLE DETAILS - No less than two and no more than five pages of text, unless you clear it with me. The article must have been published within the last six months. Please double space your write-up. The article you choose must be life-science-based. Suggested topics: zoology, botany, medicine, health, anatomy and physiology, biology, new technologies on the above suggestions, genetics, the environment. Please check with me if you are unsure of the appropriateness of you article.
7. Five (5) points per day will be subtracted from your grade if your write-up is late. This includes weekend days. I will accept your write-up to two days in advance of the due date, with 5 bonus points being given per day it is early. This offer is good only for up to two days early, no more.