Explain how the author from List B explains or defines the issue.
Explain how the author from List B explains or defines the issue.
May 30, 2020 Comments Off on Explain how the author from List B explains or defines the issue. Uncategorized Assignment-helpYou are being asked to write a short essay that conforms to the convey-analyze-apply method you worked on in your first writing assignment. The aim is to have you synthesize information you have learned throughout the course so far (classes 1-8) into a short coherent essay (max. 500 words, +/-10%): due week of June 2; worth 25% of total mark. Your assignment [worth 40 marks] Choose three (3) of the eight concepts from list A. In your short essay, consider the strengths of these three concepts for safeguarding environmental justice and/or sustainability in regard to one (1) of the environmental issues from list B. Both lists are found below. Your essay should demonstrate your ability to convey, analyze, and apply in the following way: 1) CONVEY: Identify the author who introduces or discusses the environmental issue (List B) as well as the author who introduces or discusses each concept (List A). Explain how the author from List B explains or defines the issue, and how the author of each concept explains of defines the concept NOTE: In convey, you are conveying the problem (List B), as well as possible solutions (List A) to the problem. Be sure to keep the convey section short and precise. 2) ANALYZE & APPLY: Using examples, discuss how the insights you gained from the reading linked to the three concepts (List A) might help us safeguard environmental justice and/or sustainability in regard to the environmental issue you have selected (List B). These examples can be supplied by the author, or ones you choose on your own. You can analyze the three concepts together (by identifying a linking theme), or separately (by discussing them one-by-one). NOTE: Put more effort in analyze and apply. Format and Submission File upload through Quercus (.doc, .docx, .pdf) Short answer essay/paragraph form Black 12 pt. font (single or double-spacing is fine) Be sure to identify the 3 key terms you have chosen AND the environmental issue in the title of your essay List A: Eight terms to choose from (choose 3 out of the 8) Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic Group think The Greek concept of Paideia (David Orr’s second principle of education) Unequal ecologies Chain of courage Visceral learning David Orr’s fourth principle of education Monocultures of the mind List B: Three environmental issues we discussed in Part 1 of this course (choose 1 of the 3) Carson’s discussion on chemical pollution and the resultant biodiversity loss Mitchell’s discussion of ocean warming and acidification and the problems for life it presents The NFB video’s discussion on Climate Change and its effects on land and the people in the global South Evaluation NOTE: the basic skills you have honed on conveying, analyzing and applying should be applied here, as the question above is asking you to do all three. See marking rubric below: 36-40/40 Student conveys claims and evidence precisely and accurately. She analyzes and applies proficiently using evidence (i.e.: comparisons, examples, statistics, and testimony), to develop a critical line of reasoning, applying logical argument which convincingly supports claims. Student also writes very clearly, conforming well to formal essay style. 32-35/40 Same as above except one or more issues in conveying, analyzing, applying, or writing was less satisfactorily performed.