CZ:(U00984) Appetite and Obesity, University of Edinburgh 2010

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The course coordinates

Instructor: Prof Gareth Leng, Dr Nancy Sabatier




About the Appetite and Obesity course

‘Appetite and Obesity’ is an elective course from the Honours Medical biology programme in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The overall theme of the course is the study of the body homeostasis and the epidemiology of obesity with a focus on understanding current trends in obesity research.

Project Description

The project is to write an article on a chosen topic related to obesity research, working in groups of max 4. At the end of the course, articles will be released on Citizendium; until then, articles will be locked from editing by other citizens.

Project schedule and deadlines

28.09.10: Tutorial 1.

12.10.10: References list updated. Your article should present a bibliography with an extract of the abstract for each reference illustrating why the paper has been chosen. For an example of how your reference list should look like:Recovered memory/Bibliography

26.10.10: Rough draft due. Your article should have an introduction and at least a detailed plan with section subheadings. You should have decided what picture(s) or diagram(s) to be included.

02.11.10: Peer reviews due. Leave your comments on each course article's Talk page.

17.11.09: Final draft due. Your main article should be finalised, picture and diagram included. For an example how your article could look like: Edinburgh. Bibliography, Related articles and External links pages should be updated. For an example of how your article subpages should look like: Biology/Related Articles and Biology/External Links

23.11.10: Tutorial 2: Feedback session, peer reviews due.

Week 11: Articles released on Citizendium.

What We'll Be Working On

The following is a list of articles that the members of POL 214 will be working on during the Fall 2009 semester. These articles will be closed to editing by other citizens until after the conclusion of the course, though we'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk subpages.

For each of the articles you plan to have your students work on, please add a line of the form {{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 1}}, which will display as





etc.


Once the articles have been created, they will be listed here in the following formatting:

What We'll Be Working On

The following is a list of articles that the members of POL 214 will be working on during the Fall 2009 semester. These articles will be closed to editing by other citizens until after the conclusion of the course, though we'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk subpages.

For each of the articles you plan to have your students work on, please add a line of the form {{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 1}}, which will display as





etc.


Once the articles have been created, they will be listed here in the following formatting:

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