CZ:(U00984) Appetite and Obesity, University of Edinburgh 2010
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.
Article topics
Please select the topic you want to work on by signing your name (using 4 tildes) on the article's talkpage.
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
- Title of your course's article 1 [r]: Add brief definition or description
To create this article in course-specific format, please open this page in a separate window — it will guide you through the process. After each step that takes you away from this course homepage, check back here and reload the page. If you are ready to start this process, then
- Title of your course's article 2 [r]: Add brief definition or description
To create this article in course-specific format, please open this page in a separate window — it will guide you through the process. After each step that takes you away from this course homepage, check back here and reload the page. If you are ready to start this process, then
- Title of your course's article 3 [r]: Add brief definition or description
To create this article in course-specific format, please open this page in a separate window — it will guide you through the process. After each step that takes you away from this course homepage, check back here and reload the page. If you are ready to start this process, then
- Title of your course's article 4 [r]: Add brief definition or description
To create this article in course-specific format, please open this page in a separate window — it will guide you through the process. After each step that takes you away from this course homepage, check back here and reload the page. If you are ready to start this process, then
etc.
Once the articles have been created, they will be listed here in the following formatting:
Education [r]: Learning, teaching, research and scholarship activities for the purpose of organizing, presenting and acquiring knowledge, skills or social norms. [e]
