Review papers are not collaborative. The paper is due the week after the presentation. Work on the research project is collaborative. Seminar participants may decide to coordinate several or all projects, e.g., collect data at the same site or address different aspects of a single research problem. Deadlines are set for submitting proposals, presenting preliminary data, discussing final results, and turning in completed manuscripts written in publication format.
Investigators exercise due deliberation in dividing up responsibilities proportionally and fairly.
They fill out and turn in confidential evaluations of their own and their team members' participation in the group project. Baskin, Yvonne. 1997. How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us. In preparing presentations and choosing discussion papers, students consult books and reviews. Good sources of pertinent reviews in Cornell Library include Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Science, Nature, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Quarterly Review of Biology, and special symposia published in Ecology.