MUN Homework - Week 2

Ni hao again,

OK. Our homework for this week is for everyone to do research on NDM-1. From here on out, our class is a small research team. Each person is responsible for doing a small portion of the research. Therefore, if one person fails to get their homework finished, we will all suffer.

Your task is to do research on the following topic/ question…

Catherine: How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already? How is it spreading (by boat, by mail, etc.)?

Chris: What kind of symptoms might we find after getting the virus? What do doctors recommend to do if we have those symptoms?

Christine: How can we stop the spread of NDM-1? What medicines are available to stop the spread of the virus? How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?

Darren: What is an enzyme? NDM-1 is an enzyme. Why is it so dangerous? Why doesn’t it work like a normal enzyme?

Eve: How much do we estimate it will cost to stop the spread of NDM-1? What might we spend the money on to stop the problem?

Junior: How many people have died because of the virus? How many people could die because of the virus? Who made that that estimate? What are they basing their estimate on?

Murielle: How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?

Peggy: How does NDM-1 spread? How does it attack an individual person’s immune system? How does it travel from person to person?

Sabina: How and when did people find out about the virus? Who found out about it first? Where did they find about it?

Sabrina: What is the origin of NDM-1? How many countries now have confirmed cases of NDM-1? How many people have NDM- in each of those countries?

Sarah: How can we prevent ourselves from getting the NDM-1 virus? Can we stop the spread of NDM-1 by making the bacteria dormant?


How can we stop the spread of NDM-1? What medicines are available to stop the spread of the virus? How fast could NDM-1 spread across the world? How fast has it spread already?


*** As an added bonus, we need to find at least three different sources of information from three different continents who speak three different languages. All of them must confirm your information.

As we mentioned in class, you need to cite your sources of information. As we research, we need to ask ourselves the following questions…

- “Where am I getting my information?”
- “How old is my information?”
- “Is my information reliable?”

Every time you find a new source of information (ex: book, newspaper article, website, scholarly journal, youtube video, etc.), you need to cite the source in the text (the writing) of your paper. We call this in-text citation. For an example and explanation, follow the link to The Purdue University OWL.

1.) The Purdue University OWL http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
The OWL also helps explain how to cite sources, how to write a research paper, and gives sample research papers.

At the end of the paper, you should include a Works Cited. The Works Cited should be put on a separate piece of paper. Each source of information that you use should be included in the Works Cited. The OWL has a sample Works Cited page here…

2.) OWL Works Cited Sample Page (Your Works Cited should look like this!)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/

If you are confused as to how to cite sources correctly. Check out link #3. It is from easybib.com, which helps us cite our sources properly for our Works Cited.

3.) easybib.com
http://www.easybib.com/

Last, but certainly not least, we need to discuss plagiarizing. Plagiarizing is when we take research, speeches, news articles, music, or any writing that was done by another person and use it as if it were our own. If you copy and paste from the internet, this is plagiarizing. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT PLAGIARIZING, YOU WILL RECEIVE A 0% AND HAVE TO DO YOUR WORK AGAIN!!!

You wouldn’t like it if someone stole your wallet. Researchers, musicians, artists, journalists, professors, and authors consider their work just as important as most people consider their money. Please remember this!

Jia you,

Mr. Gibson