Library

NR Enrichment Experience - Library - 2017

Citations and links to readings will be placed on this page. Readings will be hosted in a Google Drive folder - you will have to log in with your Unity credentials for access.

There is also a StudentWorkFolder in which you should store all course related work - you all have write permission within that folder.

Developing Good Research Questions

• Center for Innovation in Research & Teaching. Undated. Writing a good research question. URL=https://cirt.gcu.edu/research/developmentresources/tutorials/question (2017 Aug 13).
• Anonymous. Undated. Developing a Research Question. Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, NY, URL=http://www8.esc.edu/htmlpages/writerold/menus.htm (2014 Sep 7). [ **Prepare for jarring color scheme** ]

E. Coli Introductory Readings

• USGS. Undated. Bacteria in water. https://water.usgs.gov/edu/bacteria.html (2017 Aug 15)
• Water Research Center. Undated. Why fecal coliform testing is important? - E. Coli. http://www.water-research.net/index.php/e-coli-in-water (2017 Aug 15)
• US News & World Report. 2017. Keeping French Broad clean sometimes takes dirty work. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2017-06-12/keeping-french-broad-clean-sometimes-takes-dirty-work (2017 Aug 15).

E. Coli Measurements

• General description of MPN and quantitray
• Scroll to page 14 of these slides for a detailed explanation of how MPN works with Quantitray.
• Quantitray MPN table

Library Search Tools and Databases

Specialized databases at NCSU

• Especially useful are CAB Abstracts, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, Web of Science
• Web of Science Training

Citation Management

Literature Reviews: An Overview

Misc. Articles

• Schueler, T. 2000. Microbes in Urban Watersheds: Concentrations, Sources, & Pathways: The Practice of Watershed Protection. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD. Pages 74-84
• Atkin, Emily. 2014. The Poop Problem Hurricane Irma Left Behind. Slate. URL=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2017/09/hurricane_irma_left_a_poop_problem_in_its_wake.html (2017 Sep 14).

Teamwork

• Class contact information - please add your phone, if you're comfortable with sharing that with teammates
• Adkins, R. 2006. Conflict management styles quiz. URL=http://elementaltruths.blogspot.com/2006/11/conflict-management-quiz.html (2011 Sept). (In our Readings folder as TKI_Instrument.pdf)
• Thomas, KW & RH Kilman. 2012. Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument Interpretive Report (sample). URL=https://www.cpp.com/pdfs/smp248248.pdf (2012 Aug 28). (In our Readings as ThomasKilmanConflict.pdf)
• Unknown. Working in Small Groups. Chapter from an unknown source, received second-hand.

Water Measurements & Standards

• Rocky Branch Creek gauge
• NC Department of Environmental Quality Surface Water Standards

Writing

There are some things in the WritingGuidance subfolder of our Readings folder, including ...

• Writing an introduction (using the funnel approach)
• Selecting tenses
• Our approach to giving feedback (a news article and a research article)

Mensh & Kording. 2017. Ten simple rules for structuring papers. PLoS Comput Biol13(9): e1005619. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005619

Undergraduate Research

• Bauer, KW & JS Bennett. 2003. Alumni perceptions used to assess undergraduate research experience. The Journal of Higher Education 74(2): 210-230.
• Lopatto, D. 2003. The essential features of undergraduate research. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, March 2003: 139-142.
• Cummings Onlnie Resources. 2017. How to write an annotated bibliography. URL=http://azhin.org/cummings/annotatedbib (2017 Aug 13).