This assignment is designed to run throughout the course and parallel to it. Its objectives are: to develop an awareness of the day-to-day, ongoing nature of environmental situations, to develop familiarity with the use of reliable media as a source of up-to-date information on environmental situations, and . to evaluate a contemporary environmental issue Part 1: Write and submit an Introduction Part 2: Write a weekly journal in which you monitor the issue for 10 weeks, and write a conclusion. Submit as one file including your introduction from Part 1, your 10 weekly journal entries, and your conclusion Academic Integrity Everything must be written in your own words (paraphrased). Copying and pasting and then changing a few words around is plagiarism. One strategy to paraphrase information is to learn a lot about a topic, and then describe it in your own words as it you were explaining it to your parents or your siblings . For the introduction (Part 1), you are asked to use 3 reputable sources. Because the information comes from more than 1 source, you must use in-text citations in APA format to tell the reader which information came from which source. You must also provide a Reference List with the full publication information for each source that you cited At the end of each week's journal entry (Part 2), you must provide the full reference in APA format for the news source that you used . if you use any direct quotes, or use more than one source for any weekly entry (Part 2), you must use in-text citations to indicate where each piece of information came from Hints for Success Wikipedia is not a reliable source. If you find something really interesting in Wikipedia, go to their original source material and read it and use that for your reference. If Wikipedia does not list a reference for the information, you cannot use that information Do not procrastinate. Keep up with the assignment weekly so that you are not scrambling trying to find news stories for missing weeks. Be brave and express your own fact-based opinions. We want to know what you think