Posted: April 25th, 2015

Radio Telescopes:

History of Radio Telescopes:Describe the development of single dish radio telescopes and advantages of radio interferometers. Discuss major discoveries that were possible after detection of radio waves from space and how they changed our understanding

write a well informed but non-specialist audience. The style used in popular science magazines such as Scientific American or New Scientist would be a suitable guide. You are not writing for experts, so if you use
technical jargon you will need to explain it.

Essays are expected to show evidence of researching the topic beyond the
material presented in the lectures and textbook. The sources you use (websites,
journal articles, books) should be referenced. You should consistently use one of
the standard reference styles. One style is to number references sequentially in
the text and include a numbered list of references at the end of the essay. An
alternative is to mark references in the text using author and date e.g (Sagan,
1987) or Drake et al. (1965) and list references at the end of the essay in
alphabetical order.

If you use text from another source make it clear that it is a quote by placing it in
quotation marks and giving the reference to the source. However, you should not
make excessive use of quotes. The essay should be in your words and present
your views on the subject, not just an account of what other have said. Using text
from other sources without attribution is plagiarism and is not acceptable.
The word limit should include
the text, figure captions, footnotes, but not the reference list (we are happy to see
lots of references). You will lose marks for going over or under the word limit.

You are welcome to include pictures. However try to ensure that they help to
illustrate the argument presented in the essay and are not mere adornment.

Your essay should be written for a well informed but non-specialist audience. The
style used in popular science magazines such as Scientific American or New
Scientist would be a suitable guide. You are not writing for experts, so if you use
technical jargon you will need to explain it.

Essays are expected to show evidence of researching the topic beyond the
material presented in the lectures and textbook. The sources you use (websites,
journal articles, books) should be referenced. You should consistently use one of
the standard reference styles. One style is to number references sequentially in
the text and include a numbered list of references at the end of the essay. An
alternative is to mark references in the text using author and date e.g (Sagan,
1987) or Drake et al. (1965) and list references at the end of the essay in
alphabetical order.

If you use text from another source make it clear that it is a quote by placing it in
quotation marks and giving the reference to the source. However, you should not
make excessive use of quotes. The essay should be in your words and present
your views on the subject, not just an account of what other have said. Using text
from other sources without attribution is plagiarism and is not acceptable.
Submitting Essays
They
should be submitted online through the submission box provided in the
Assessments page on Moodle. You can submit in a range of file formats (MS
Word, WordPerfect, PDF, Postscript, HTML, RTF and plain text).