Academic Writing

The Course Roadmap for ICM6680 Sustainable Construction describes the requirements for each of the 15 Course Modules in this course, the student requirements, and the grading scheme. Each module is anticipated to require 9 hours of student work including readings, Module Assignments, and Course Task. Every module has a Module Assignment to be completed when the reading assignments have been completed. Each Module Assignment is designed to be a 500 word, two page, double-spaced response. The Module Assignments should be returned to the instructor via the course assignment delivery system. The student may complete only one other Module Assignment before receiving an acknowledgement of satisfactory completion from the instructor. Each Module Assignment will be returned with brief comments and a numerical grade. Each Assignment will have two parts, the first being a summary of what the student has learned from the module, the second a short research project on current green building issues. You are to use Environmental Building News (EBN) to accomplish the research portion. You are to specify the title and issue (month/year, volume/number, and pages) where you found the information for your response. Access to Environmental Building News is through the University of Florida library system as described under Textbooks and Database Access. There is also a Course Paper, assigned in Module 10 that is intended to involve more time and effort on the part of the student. The Course Paper should be a minimum 2,000 word report on the stipulated subject. The student must email a 250-300 word abstract of the Course Paper to the instructor for approval prior to continuing. Upon receiving approval to proceed the student can complete the Course Paper and email it to the instructor. Deadline December 1 The reading assignments in the Course Modules are keyed to books, papers, or other documents located in the textbooks, Environmental Building News (EBN). By clicking on the hyperlink for the readings in each module, you will launch that particular document or Powerpoint lecture. They will either appear as a normal HTML document, enabled to be read by Adobe Acrobat if they are a PDF file, or by MS-Word or Powerpoint depending on their format. This will happen automatically as you launch each document. When the assignment is to Read the reference, it is intended that you gain a thorough understanding of the book, paper, or other material. Scan means to obtain a cursory understanding or familiarity with the subject matter of the assignment. View means that the student should page through the Powerpoint lecture. For Visiting Internet assignments, you must obviously be connected via a network or dial-up service to the internet. You are responsible for becoming generally familiar with the issues and current activities of the organizations at these sites. The following are the abbreviations used to describe some of the Module Assignments: