Hydrologic Report:  First Draft                                                                                                                     Sanders

This assignment is due October 4, 2001.

The first draft of your hydrologic report should contain the following elements, as listed on p. 1 of the Turabian book:

        Title page
        Blank page
        Table of Contents
        List of Figures
        List of Tables
        Acknowledgments
        In later drafts, we'll include an Abstract at this point.
        Introduction
        Methods
        Results
        Discussion
        In later drafts, we'll include the Conclusions at this point.
        Appendix (if applicable)
        References Cited

Each of these elements begins on a clean page, so your report as you hand it in on October 4 will be at least 12 pages long!

Title page: Information here should be centered horizontally and vertically on the page.  See Turabian for an example.  Include a title, your name, the class name, the university name, and the date.  Also include the words "Draft #1".

Table of Contents: See Turabian for information and an example.  For this draft, you might want to leave out the page numbers on the right side of the page (or neatly hand-write them after you've printed the page).

List of Figures: See Turabian for information and an example.  For this draft, you might want to leave out the page numbers on the right side of the page (or neatly hand-write them after you've printed the page).

List of Tables: See Turabian for information and an example.  For this draft, you might want to leave out the page numbers on the right side of the page (or neatly hand-write them after you've printed the page).

Acknowledgments: In this section, thank the people who need to be acknowledged for the help that they gave you.  For example, you might want to thank your group members, people who work at hydrologic agencies or libraries who provided data to your or explained concepts to you, or other people who contributed in some way.

Introduction:  In your thesis this section will be Chapter 1!   Here, include the following:
        * an opening paragraph that catches your reader's attention and hints at what is to come
        * a paragraph that describes in very general terms what the basic purpose of this study is (to characterize the
            hydrology of the study area) and says in no more than 1-2 sentences how the study achieves this purpose.
        * a section with a subheading of something like "General Geography" or "Geographic Setting" that introduces the
            general geographic setting of the study area (location, general topography, general land use, major geographic
            features like streams, lakes, and mountains)
        * a section with a subheading of something like "Hydrologic Budget".  In this section, first include a paragraph that
           explains what a hydrologic budget is.  Then, include the following:
                    > Eventually, the "Hydrologic Budget" section then will contain several subsections that discuss each
                       component of the hydrologic budget.  For this first draft, you'll need a subsection on "Drainage Basin
                       Delineation" and one on "Precipitation".  In the Drainage Basin Delineation section, insert what you
                       wrote for the introduction to Homework #3.  For the Precipitation section, insert an introduction to
                       precipitation and EUD estimation.

Methods: Here, put the Methods sections that you have already written for past assignments (plus the new one for the Thiessen method and monthly/yearly precipitation values).

Results:  Here, put the Results sections that you have already written for past assignments (plus the new one for the Thiessen method and monthly/yearly precipitation values).

Discussion: Here, put the Discussion sections that you have already written for past assignments (plus the new one for the Thiessen method and monthly/yearly precipitation values).

In later drafts, we'll include a Conclusions section at this point, but for this draft, it's not needed.

Appendix (if applicable): Here, put lengthy data tables and similar bulky information.

References Cited: Use the "Reference List" format as given in the Turabian book.  Citations should be in alphabetical order by the first author's last (family) name.

© 2001 Laura L. Sanders.  Last updated September 27, 2001.