Professor Scott Mandia teaches Global Climate Change at the Suffolk County Community College. He's just published an interesting blog post about how he uses SkS as part of his course:
I used John Cook’s SkepticalScience.com as the student resource for this summer’s research papers. As you will see from the two example papers highlighted on this blog, information found at SkepticalScience.com is accessible to the typical college student and likely to the general public.
The assignment:
Each student was randomly assigned a topic from Skeptic Arguments & What The Science Says.
Students were asked to carefully study all the information appearing in the Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced tabs.
Students were required to summarize, in their own words, the information learned from researching the topic. Students were also encouraged to use other resources, especially course notes, to help them complete the paper. Students were to use proper APA Citation Style formatting within the content (parenthetical citing) and in a Works Cited page appearing as the last page.
Scott then goes onto give a few examples from his students' work (who of course gave permission for their work to be reproduced). Definitely worth checking out, as is a previous post where Scott posts 4 papers by his students debunking common climate myths.
Posted by John Cook on Wednesday, 10 August, 2011
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