Botany 105 Extra Credit Report Guidelines (Up to 50 Points) The report should be

Botany 105 Extra Credit Report Guidelines (Up to 50 Points) The report should beUncategorized Botany 105 Extra Credit Report Guidelines (Up to 50 Points)The report should be 5 12 pages in length, 12 point font, double spaced on any ethnobotanical subject that relates to the class. The subject does not necessarily have to be on Hawaiian ethnobotanical plants but can be about plant(s) used in other cultures. The focus can be on a specific type of plant use or a specie(s). For instance you could talk about taro use in Japan as a subject, or do a project on major medicinal plants of India. You could also focus on a specific use of plants i.e. woods used for canoe making in the Pacific, things like that.Points received will correspond to the thoroughness of the report and the paper’s overall quality. Value of extra credit will not exceed 50 points, and 50 points is for work that is exceptional if you do a paper that meets only part of the guidelines and/or follows the guidelines but does less than high-quality work, you will still receive points but less than the full possible. For example if you do a project that would be an equivelancy of what is just average or C-grade quality work, you would receive ~30 points instead of the full 50.The report should be split into several main parts including the introduction, body, conclusion, diagrams/pictures (placed wherever appropriate in the report) and your citations. The introduction should include things like what you are researching, why, some back history on the subject, a brief summary of what you will discuss in the body of the paper and a short sentence summarizing your findings. The body is the meat of the paper, where you go in depth into the research that you have done. The body can have sub-sections too if it is a subject that can be split into several parts, though it is not always necessary. The conclusion should have a summary of what was discusses, how it has affected you, any reflections on the subject and perhaps talk about the future of the discussed topic and/or how it applies to modern life.CitationsThe report should have at least 3 citations, though 5 + would be better and would getyou closer to the maximum amount of points possible (but do not just have citations listed without using them in your paper).Good citations are books, scientific papers/journals and/or official government/academic related research. For the scientific journals you can search “Google Scholar,” which has at least some free resources and articles. Websites are allowed (I will take off points if you only cite websites though) though personal websites or forums are not considered quality resources. Official university or government websites (i.e. those ending with .edu or .gov) would be considered a good citations.Citations should be typed in any standard format, i.e. MLA would be best. Make sure to cite your sources in text with the name of the primary author(s) and the year the finding, book, or website was published. Remember that if it is not your idea or knowledge, that you MUST have a citation for it as plagiarism is not tolerated in the world especially in Academia/the college setting. An example of how I would like to see citations used in text would be –“The genus Hibiscus is mostly found in the neo-tropics” (Smith, 2002).In this case it is a quote, but if you change the words are are just referring to the information you could put something like –It is generally thought that the genus Hibiscus is mostly found in regions like the neo- tropics (Smith, 2002).You cite the citation, but you do not have to necessarily put quotes or put paraphrasing marks. Content should be significantly different from what has already been presented in class, so it is okay to cover similar themes i.e. kapa cloth production but focus and expand on a particular part of this subject and not just use information that one should already know from the class itself. Though not critical, newer research/findings is always interesting, though research on historical subjects are not bad either. 5 w’s are good things to cover in this section i.e. “who made this technology, discovered it, first used it, etc?” If you have any other questions, feel free to email me.This site has a good amount of info better explaining at least how to format citationsRSNZ Referencing Style Guide –https://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/guidance/referencing/rsnz-style