For Summer 2004

Guidelines for evaluating proposals    (Also NOTE:  By looking over these guidelines, you should get a good sense of what your proposal should accomplish.)

Titles of proposals submitted in previous semesters.

Examples of a few nicely-written proposals from previous semesters:
>>  Example 1  (Awns as potential adaptive structures for mechanically moving seeds of Andropogon gerardi (Vitman) through prairie ground litter and into the soil)
>>  Example 2  (Changes in density of herbaceous groundlayer plant species over time in response to deer herbivory at woodland preserve sites in Lake County, Illinois)
>>  Example 3  (Measuring Restoration Effectiveness in an Illinois Oak Woodland: Deer Grove Forest Preserve, Cook County)
>>  Example 4  (An evaluation of the results of avian point-count censuses with respect to the results of territory mapping)

First drafts of proposals submitted in Fall 01.

Proposal # 0101  (to be reviewed by  6529)
Proposal # 0102  (to be reviewed by  5093)
Proposal # 0103  (to be reviewed by  0492)
Proposal # 0104  (to be reviewed by  0071)
Proposal # 0105  (to be reviewed by  7260)
Proposal # 0106  (to be reviewed by  9801)
Proposal # 0107  (to be reviewed by  4107)
Proposal # 0108  (to be reviewed by  0898)
Proposal # 0109  (to be reviewed by  0297)

Evaluations are due no later than the beginning of class on Tues 20 November.  In addition to submitting  the copy of the paper on which you made comments, you must also print out the evaluation form and summarize your comments in the spaces provided on that form.  Please bring two copies of each with you to class, so that I can have one and one can go directly to the person whose proposal you reviewed.