Graduate Student Manuscript 

Objective: Students at the graduate level typically have different goals and capabilities when compared to undergraduate students.  In completing graduate-level education, student must demonstrate the ability to collect data concerning a specific topic, organize and analyze this information, and prepare a manuscript documenting these processes.  This assignment involves each of these tasks. 

Assignment: 

1.      Select a topic of interest to you.  The topic should involve an issue in coastal management.  The topic may be an actual issue that needs resolution or it may be a potential (or future) issue.  Discuss your selection or topics in general with Drs. Cleary or Hosier.  Your topic must be approved before you proceed with the research.

2.      Conduct a literature search and collect pertinent factual information concerning the topic.  You may use any form of literature: scientific journals, popular magazines, newspapers, Internet, etc.; however, you topic should have elements of scientific merit, i.e., the information in your presentation should not come from newspaper articles solely.

3.    Your manuscript should clearly and convincingly show what scientific, economic, social or political information will be necessary to contribute to the solution of one or more significant coastal management problems.  Alternatively, your manuscript should clearly show what information is available and has been applied in solving a significant coastal management problem.

Mechanics: The manuscript should not exceed 10, double-spaced [1-inch margins], wordprocessed pages exclusive of references and clarifying, amplifying, or explanatory tables and figures.  Do not use a plastic binder or other similar cover; assemble the document and staple (no clips) in the upper left hand corner. 

Grading:  

Due Date:  COB, Tuesday, 23 November 2004