Research Paper about an airport

Adopt an Airport / Presentation Guidelines

Adopt an Airport:

Each student will “adopt” an airport to study in parallel with class topics.

Each student will select one major or popular airport within the first week of class.    The airport can be domestic or international.  Airports (almost all) should have websites that include comprehensive information about their airport and facilities.  You can answer many of the assigned topics by searching through their website.  There are many other sources of information too, and they are listed within the e-Learning site and within the syllabus. You might consider contacting at least one administrative employee at the airport.  If the airport is close enough, you might be able to visit or take a tour.  Some administrators are extremely busy, and others are willing and available to speak with you a number of times.

You can pick any airport of your choice which includes public or private airports.

Term Report:

During the semester you will be compiling information that corresponds to the topics that we are studying.  Your collected information will relate to your adopted “real-world” airport.  Summarizing your response based on your research.  Use the writing guidelines for formatting.

For Example (student picks Billings Airport): A student choosing to write on topics of airport history, organization/roles, airport design, and public relations will research these for Billings airport and report on information they find specific to that airport.

Organization of the Report:

Cover Sheet:  Including your name, the class, the airport you have adopted and the date (APA 6 style please).

Topic documentation:  For chosen topics you must include pertinent information based on what you learned in class/lesson. Your information should be comprehensive, factual, clear and concise.  Always use the writing guidelines format, including APA 6 referencing for factual material (see Sources below).   The topic summaries must contain valid and applicable content.  Additional pages for graphs, tables, illustrations, etc. may be added.

Supplemental Information: You may include supplemental or miscellaneous information about the airport that you find interesting or useful, such as economic impact statements, airport diagrams, airport master plans, photos, newspaper articles, etc.

Sources: Document your sources using APA 6 format (for professional papers, NOT student writing).  Sources may include newspaper clippings, periodical articles, and websites.

APA:  Submit in a Word doc only, Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced, references page, running title/header with page numbers at top, cover page properly formatted and proper in-text citations.

***There is an example APA paper in elearning.  USE IT for format!!!  ****

Topic Requirement:

Each student should write on a minimum of 4 topics/lessons from class (i.e. public relations, government roles at airport, grants, airspace, etc.).  Refer to topic list outline in AAA folder of elearning.

Each topic should be 1 -2 pages of written text, NOT including pictures.   Four pages of text is required.  All pictures are deleted upon review to confirm text requirement.

Grading:

Enjoy this assignment.  This project is a valuable learning experience in Airport Administration and provides you with more experience in doing research and especially creative / critical thinking.  It also gives practice in presenting airport related information to industry professionals (good practice for your future careers).

Grading is based on topic content, report format (i.e. APA style), grammar, spelling, punctuation.

Report Submission:

Each individual must upload their own AAA report into the dropbox for their grade by the due date and time.  Each student is graded on an individual basis for the paper/report.

LATE PAPERS ARE NOT ACCEPTED!!!!   THIS IS A LARGE PORTION OF YOUR GRADE SO DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE AND ENSURE YOU FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.