This is a week for additional research. You will also begin to organize for writing.
Assignment #1: Topic and Research
Step #1 is to select the topic that will be of most interest to you. In a paragraph, explain why it is an important topic and explain your interest in the topic.
Step #2 Your task it to conduct enough research that you feel confident sharing the facts in writing about the existence of a problem, the causes of the problem, and the possible solutions. Be ready to call the reader to action. What can and should the reader do to make a difference?
Tips on writing a Call to Action or CTA: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/call-to-action/
Include at least five of the following in your essay. Take notes on these. Post Summarize your notes and post with the source(s). (In Canvas, you will have notes and sources from five of these research options,)
- An interview with someone
- Art, music,or literature related to the topic
- Current news report
- Current videos/ movies You may quote An Inconvenient Truth or you may select an additional movie feature. National Geographic and Animal Planet have several features. It does not need to be a documentary. Happy Feet comes to mind! YouTube offers many options. This is just one of many: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKbZxKZJM
- Branch out. Find something to view that relates to your chosen topic.
- Information from an expert source. Search the EMCC on-line library for strong sources: (Required) https://www.estrellamountain.edu/library
- Charts/Graphs/Statistics
Assignment #2 Organizing for Writing
Organize your essay into parts.
Here are some guidelines:
1. A. Identify the problem. How many are impacted by the problem? Who is impacted? What other problems result because this problem exists?
B. Causes of the problem.
C. Effects of the problem.
D. Solutions and a call to action.
2 Make an informal outline of your paper. Break it into the four sections as shown in A, B, C, and D. Remember to have proof for what you think, feel, and believe. Create a bulleted list. Provide your sources.
If you need additional instructions to help you understand how to write a problem/solution essay, take some time to look at this site.
Discussion Board - Week #14
Post your topic along with a paragraph or two to identify your topic and to explain why the topic is important to you. Then, ask the class to share their thoughts and ask questions or share examples that could be of help to you. Of course, you do not have to agree with the topic, but please be respectful of the ideas in your responses. Respond to THREE posts.
For example, if I were to select a topic right now, it would probably deal with climate change and the migration of butterflies. One might ask why I would be worried about butterflies. They are part of the food chain. When one segment of the food chain disappears, it creates a "domino" effect where all segments of the chain will be altered.
My interest in this topic became intense last spring on a drive across the desert from San Diego. The windshield seemed to be attracting more than the usual number of bugs. Yellow, gooey, splats soon blocked the windshield. At the nearest rest stop, we pulled in along with more than the normal group of travelers who, along with us were washing down their windshields. At first I thought we had run into a flight of crickets or grasshoppers. Upon further inspection, I noticed wings - delicate and damaged. Their once happy looking yellow, white, and black spotted wings were tatters on the grill of the car.
Being curious and thanks to technology having the capability, I looked up butterfly migrations and discovered that these were Painted Lady butterflies on their annual migration south. Interstate 8 runs along the migration path. I couldn't help but wonder how many thousand insects would not reach their mating area or would not be dinner for whatever was hungrily waiting for them to arrive.
Will the thousands who died on the highway that April day make a difference in the food chain? I am not sure. But I do know that the warming climate is causing problems in other areas of the world for the winged migrations and all of the animals that depend on their arrival each year.
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