The observatories paper must be about a method of observing the night sky and ex

The observatories paper must be about a method of observing the night sky and examples of the most recent discoveries. The paper about earthbound or spacebound astronomical observatories.
The observatories paper must be about a method of observing the night sky and examples of the most recent discoveries. For example, you could write about Radio Astronomy as it is done by the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia and the Very Large Array in New Mexico. Or you could write about Observatories that explore the night sky in the visible such as Keck Observatory in Hawaii, there is also the European Southern Observatory in South America, etc. You can also write about space bound observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the CHANDRA project which is an X-ray satellite, etc. or even projects that are currently under development and what they seek to accomplish.
You can use any magazines, journals, and web sites that are accepted by the scientific community (e.g.: Nature, Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, Astronomy, Popular Mechanics, or web sites published by well known research universities and scientific institutions like NASA, Hubble Space Telescope Institute, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MIT, Cal-Tech, Princeton University, Harvard, etc.)
Send the completed report through the assignment drop box. The assignment page can be found on the evaluation tools page. Be careful to follow these instructions or you will lose points. The body of the summary must contain at least 3 complete page of text. It must be typed, double spaced, using 10 or 12 pitch type and margins of not more than 1.5 inches and not less than 1 inch. The 1 page of text does NOT include the title page. Summaries not typed to these specifications will receive loss of points.
Your summary must include a brief introduction (e.g. why you chose this type of observatory, how it relates to course material) and a brief conclusion (e.g. summarize the main point of the article, your personal opinion, what you got out of it. You must include a works cited page that lists all your sources so that they may be verified by the instructor. The title page must contain at least your name and the title of your paper.
Papers will be graded out of 50 points based on the following criteria:

Quantity of Scientific Information: 10 Points: Does your summary contain scientific information relevant to the topic of the article or is it padded with fancy language, technical terms, copied lists, and irrelevant or unscientific speculation? Does the included information give a clear picture of the subject or does it muddle the subject badly? Are the facts laid out in a logical order or are they just tossed in various places? Is the information up to date or has the student relied on obsolete data.

General Understanding: 10 Points: Does the student appear to understand what he or she is writing about? If most of the summary is copied (even if it is cited), if a lot of technical terms are used without clear explanation, if the text jumps wildly from topic to topic, the answer is NO. Make sure you clearly understand (and can explain to someone not in a science class) what you are writing and that you put it in your own words. You do not need to be overly technical.

Organization of the Paper: 10 Points: The organization must be as follows: you must have a title page containing the title of the paper and your name. You must have an introduction and a conclusion. You must have a works cited page at the end of your paper. If your paper contains visuals, they should be included in an appendix and referred to in the body of the paper. All pages must be numbered, starting with the first page of text.

Clarity/Readability: 6 Points: Is the paper presented in a simple and concise manner that is easy to read? The following will deduct from readability: stringing quotes together, poor organization, poor typing, poor spelling, jumping from one thought to another without transition, garbled English, technical terms which are not explained, etc.

Spelling and Grammar: 4 Points: A few typos in the paper will not harm it. A few typos in each paragraph will count against you. Misspellings, poor punctuation, sentence fragments, and garbled English will also count against you. If you have trouble with English, get help from someone who doesn’t. You are responsible for your summary. If you use a computer (there are many available in the computer labs), don’t wait until the last minute. Also, don’t blame the computer for typing or grammatical mistakes. You are responsible for the paper.

References: 10 Points: Do NOT use your textbook, lecture notes, or encyclopedias (including Wikipedia) as sources except for background information. Make sure to document where any background information comes from. Any info that is not general knowledge (i.e. the Sun is a star) MUST BE documented! Use your own words by paraphrasing your sources rather than quoting directly from them. The only time direct quotations are appropriate is when you are quoting something a scientist actually said, for example if the scientist is directly quoted in the article you are referencing. You must document your sources WITHIN your paper using numbers in parentheses that refer to the works cited page. Sources need to be given at least every paragraph – any time your source of information changes or you change ideas, you need to give a source. Reference with parentheses (1). Then include a list of your sources at the end. This is the works cited page. I am not picky about format, but the following information needs to be included in your source information: (a) For a magazine article: author, publication date, title of article, title of publication, page numbers of article within the magazine, or (b) For a Web page: author, if possible, and a SPECIFIC Web address that DIRECTLY links to the source page.