Blog Assignment #2

(See syllabus for information on blog length)

Readings to Review

For their second blog, students will turn to chapters we read for 9-24 in The Global Warming Reader (“The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” (75-80), “The Anthropocene,” (69-74)). 

Assignment Goal

Their goal is to explain the science of climate change to an outsider reader who knows nothing about the topic using these readings.

Different Parts of the Blog:

Telling their readers why they're writing and on what
briefly introducing themselves and the assignment
briefly explaining the main ideas of the blog (consider drafting and revising this LAST)

Practicing Summary
communicating the main ideas from each essays (the readings for 9-24)
communicating the important "specific" information from those essays

Focusing on some of the scientific evidence
paraphrasing the evidence for climate change in these articles.

Students choose what they want to focus on
This last part of the blog means that students will have to choose the evidence they want to use; there is probably too much evidence in these essays for students to include all of it.

Imagine the audience as someone you know
Since students are responsible for making sure someone else understands climate change, they will have to be attentive how their writing is read by others.

Before you stop writing, ask yourself
After they write their sentences, students should ask themselves: will someone else understand the ideas and words in this sentence? If students believe that an idea or word needs to be explained, they should explain that idea or word in their next sentence.





                
                                                                                                   
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