Create a fact sheet for the general public of the United States about a biomass-based product.

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English Question

Introduction
You have learned a lot in this course about biorenewable resources and the products that we make from them. Hopefully, you have an understanding of how products derived from biomass typically have less of an environmental impact than those derived from mineral resources. In this assignment, your job will be to introduce a bioproduct to the public, and explain why they should care. You will need to carefully consider everything you have learned and how you would explain it to someone without a science/environmental background.

Assignment Overview
Your task is to create a fact sheet for the general public of the United States about a biomass-based product. A quick Google search on bioproducts or plant-based products should give you some ideas on what to do your fact sheet on. The diagram at the beginning of L18 may also help inspire ideas.

The following are some suggested term projects that you may select. You may select another if you choose. Prepare the report as you would for a professional project.

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Final report

Directions
The following are some suggested term projects that you may select. You may select another if you choose. Please avoid the Lincoln and the Holland Tunnels. Select a topic that interests you. The term paper should be 10 pages which include the write-up, drawings, photos and references. Prepare the report as you would for a professional project. Neat, correct spelling and grammar are required.

The following are some suggested topics:
1. A specific tunnel project mixed face using shields, tunnel boring machine such as the Sekain Tunnel, the BART Tunnels or the Cumberland Gap Tunnel.
2. A historic tunnel such as those by the Romans, the St. Clair Tunnel, or the Hoosac Tunnel.
3. Methods of excavation for soft ground tunneling, hard rock.
4. Mixed face using shields, tunnel boring machine, drill and blast, roadheader, earth pressure balanced, slurry shield.
5. Tunnel problems such as fire, flooding or cave-ins.
6. Subways as in Paris, NYC, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Taiwan.
7. Water tunnels, railroad tunnels, immersed tube tunnels.
8. People important to tunneling or tunnel disasters.
9. Channel Tunnel, Fort McHenry Tunnel, or soft ground tunnels.
10. Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Penn Station Tunnels, Detroit Windsor Tunnel.
11. Tunnel types such as immersed tube, microtunneling, rock tunnels.

Expectations
This term project should include a bit of history concerning your selected topic. It should describe the current status and what is proposed for the future. For people, address their background and how they came to develop their contribution to the industry.
Any source material should be documented. The 10 page report should be neat and professional looking. Photos and drawings and charts should be neat and readable. A total score of 100 points may be given, and this represents 20% of your final grade.

Write the topic sentences where you must explain what the main idea of these paragraphs is. Summarize the articles; explore pieces of evidence: facts, statistics, and opinions of experts; analyze the main claims and the sub-claims of the articles you used; write your comments, explaining your audience what they can learn from these pieces of evidence, claims and sub-claims.

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Brain research project

1. Title

2. Abstract 5.4 How To Write an Abstract for the Worldview Essay. Read.

Borrow all sentences from your introduction and Conclusion.

  • Abstract includes:
  • A. Explanation of the problem What problem you are trying to solve in your essay (one sentence). Borrow this sentence from your Introduction.
  • B. The thesis statement/claim (your position/solution – one sentence). Borrow your thesis statement from your Introduction.
  • C. Conclusion (a recommendation/implication – one or two sentences). Borrow one/two sentences from your conclusion.

Abstract should be coherent and readable. Use transitions. Use an active and vigorous syntax.

3. Introduction (150-180 words)

Avoid using “I, my, we, us, our, YOU, your”.

To construct the sentences, please use the following words: problem, significance, purpose, needs and values, audience.

4. Main part. Provide support for your claim. Use the credible articles with facts, statistics, and opinions of experts. 250 words per paragraph. Write 3 paragraphs. Use parenthetical citations in MLA. Acknowledge the authors (names and the page numbers). Avoid using websites that do not contain the authors’ names.

Structure your body paragraphs correctly:

  • Write the topic sentences where you must explain what the main idea of these paragraphs is.
  • Summarize the articles; explore pieces of evidence: facts, statistics, and opinions of experts; analyze the main claims and the sub-claims of the articles you used;
  • Write your comments, explaining your audience what they can learn from these pieces of evidence, claims and sub-claims;
  • Write concluding sentences.

Use transitions.

Use the Inductive approach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAjkQ1YqLEE

Links to an external site.

Use factual evidence: facts, statistics, opinions of experts 10.4. Understanding Argument. Approaches to Argument: Support. Evidence. Read.

Avoid using generalization. Use the specific scholarly articles (with the authors’ names and the page numbers).

5. General Conclusion. Use 10 strategies for an effective conclusion (1, 2, 3, 8 are mandatory). 5.3 How To Write a Conclusion.

In your conclusion, briefly summarize your position (paraphrase your thesis statement). One sentence. Use a transition such as therefore or so, thus, as a result, consequently, hence.

While searching for an exit with proper emphasis and grace, here some suggestions that might spark some good ideas for your conclusion. Write 5-6 sentences (it is mandatory to use # 1,3,4, and 8). You can add more sentences, using other ideas from the following list:

  1. An evaluation of the importance of the essay’s subject
  2. A statement of the essay’s broader implications
  3. A recommendation or call to action
  4. A warning based on the essay’s thesis
  5. A quotation from an authority or someone whose insight emphasizes the main point
  6. An anecdote or brief example that emphasizes or sum up the point of the essay
  7. A rhetorical question that makes the reader think about the essay’s main point
  8. A forecast based on the essay’s thesis
  9. An ironic twist, witticism, pun, or playful use of words
  10. A proverb, maxim, or motto

6. Works Cited (3-4 or more sources). 1.4 MLA Format. Review.

You can find Works Cited on pages 9-10.

7. Self-Reflection.

This essay must be accompanied by a Self-Reflection, which should be 350-400 words. A Self-Reflection includes the following:

  1. Evaluate yourself as a writer and a critical thinker, providing informal comments on the various stages of the writing process: ideas, thinking, reading, prewriting, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading.
  2. Comments on specific strengths and weaknesses of your paper.
  3. Comments on how the essay reflects your growth as a writer, researcher, and critical thinker.

Use MLA Format. 1.4 MLA Format. Review.

Read the information, set it aside, and then try to explain it in your own words and style. Use an online thesaurus to change most of the words in a found passage. Once you’ve written a paraphrase, compare your words and sentence structure to those of the original.

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Eng comp I

Some of the questions that follow are true-false or multiple choice questions, and some require you to write short answers.

Before writing a summary, you may want to preview the work by ______________.

  • gaining a quick overview of the article by reading the introduction and conclusion
  • considering ways in which the title condenses the article’s meaning
  • note any words that have been emphasized with italic or boldface type
  • all of the these

FILL-IN: Reporting information in your own words and style without condensing it is called ______________.

TRUE or FALSE: _____ If you borrow only a single sentence (without proper attribution) it is not plagiarism.

Which of the following is not an effective way to avoid plagiarism?

  • Read the information, set it aside, and then try to explain it in your own words and style.
  • Use an online thesaurus to change most of the words in a found passage.
  • Once you’ve written a paraphrase, compare your words and sentence structure to those of the original.
  • Credit the original source with an in-text citation.

TRUE or FALSE: _____ A summary is also referred to as a précis or abstract.

TRUE or FALSE: _____ It is a good idea to insert your own ideas and opinions into any summary you write.

TRUE or FALSE: _____Simply changing one or two words from the original is not a paraphrase.

FILL-IN: If you omit the irrelevant words in a quotation, you must show the omission by including _____________ in place of the deleted words.

 

Which of the following is not an effective strategy for writing summary?

  • Preserve the balance and proportion of the original work.
  • Periodically refer to the author or article to emphasize that this is a summary.
  • Include three or more quotations from the text in each paragraph of summary.
  • Express the main points and key details in your own words.

TRUE or FALSE: ______ If you want to use a quotation that is longer than four lines, you should block the quotation, indenting it by an extra margin.

Do you/do you really believe that there is a type of literature called women’s literature, are you with or against this label, and why? What is the poetry of the Mothabath, can you talk about it briefly?

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

1- Do you/do you really believe that there is a type of literature called women’s literature, are you with or against this label, and why?

2- What is the poetry of the Mothabath, can you talk about it briefly?

3- What is free poetry that appeared in the fifties, and why is there controversy about it? Explain/explain it briefly.

What is Carroll saying about the nature of rhetorical analysis? How do the fundamentals of rhetorical analysis figure into your life, both as a student and as a citizen? Describe a pair of specific examples in which these concepts might play (or have played) a role in your participation in those areas.

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ENC1102: Discussion: Understanding Context and Research Reflection

Questions for Analysis

What is Carroll saying about the nature of rhetorical analysis? How do the fundamentals of rhetorical analysis figure into your life, both as a student and as a citizen? Describe a pair of specific examples in which these concepts might play (or have played) a role in your participation in those areas.

Using at least one citation from Carroll’s essay, comment on the role of context in framing contemporary arguments. Is there enough contextual background on news stories, speeches, advertisements, and other areas of rhetoric in today’s digital information culture? How does the Washington Post’s proposed feature of the “Knowledge Map” (noted in this Shan Wang article

Links to an external site.) enrich the contemporary news environment?

Finally, in the second half of your essay, explain to your classmates the general features of your research argument. Using the taxonomies of reflection in the previous section as a guide, answer the following questions in your final four paragraphs:

  • What did you learn about your topic that you didn’t already know or that was surprising to you?
  • What is an area that you would like to improve upon as a writer moving forward, and which aspect of your research argument are you most proud of?
  • Finally, how do you see the subject of your research argument changing over the course of the next ten years? Where will it be in a decade’s time?

Where applicable, feel free to use hyperlinks to connect your essay to a resource or two in support of your answers.

Having examined the sources of our biases and learned how to identify biases in others’ writing, put those skills together to create a useful Wikipedia article.

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English Question

Overview

Throughout the semester, we have examined the sources of our biases and learned how to identify biases in others’ writing. We have considered the purposes for different types of writing and begun to learn how to use sources in an ethical and effective manner. This assignment asks writers to put those skills together to create a useful Wikipedia article. Although you don’t have to publish your article to Wikipedia to complete this project, you are welcome to do so!

How Wikipedia is different from a college essay (from Wiki Education Foundation)

A Wikipedia page is not an argumentative essay. The final draft of your page should be

    • Fact-based, not persuasive writing. Rather than making an argument, you will be writing a description of the information about a topic, cited to reliable sources.
    • Written with a formal tone and easy-to-understand language. Wikipedia isn’t the place for you to show off your extensive vocabulary. The audience of Wikipedia is global, and people who have never heard of the topic before will be reading what you are writing. You will need to clearly convey the basics of the topic in your writing.
    • Mostly paraphrased from sources, with no large block quotes. Wikipedia’s policies state that you should try to paraphrase whenever possible. Brief quotes from sources is fine, but you should try to provide the context in your own words and only quote the truly key phrase or two from the original.

Source Requirements

    • The purpose of your Wikipedia article is to share in-depth information with readers. You do not want to provide information that others can easily find on their own – say, from a different Wikipedia page. Instead, you will present information from expensive and hard-to-access sources usually blocked by paywalls. As a Northern Virginia Community College student, you can get to those sources through the NOVA library system.
    • Because the purpose of your article is to present in-depth, reliable information with your readers, your article must cite at least five reliable sources as defined on the Wikipedia page
  • Links to an external site.. Unless stated otherwise by your instructor, all sources should be obtained through the NOVA library system.
  • Note that Wikipedia uses a complicated system of hyperlinks and footnotes (a number in the sentence, along with information about the source corresponding to that number at the “foot” or bottom of the document to show readers where information has come from. Rather than learning a new method of citation for this single assignment, writers are asked to continue using MLA guidelines for citing sources. See the MLA module in the class for further information.

What have you heard about this topic that prompted your interest in it? How much time have you invested in formally researching this topic before? What do you intend to prove, or argue with support in your paper?

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Critical thinking and reasoning

  • Describe your topic in one sentence. (be specific and narrow down)
  • Why did you select this topic?
  • What have you heard about this topic that prompted your interest in it?
  • How much time have you invested in formally researching this topic before?
  • What do you intend to prove, or argue with support in your paper?
  • Clearly state the argument and counter argument you will contrast in your paper.
  • How can you prove or support your argument in the best way possible?
  • What social and cultural influences may have influenced your point-of-view about this topic?
  • Do you have a pre-disposition toward this topic already? (i.e. existing attitudes, beliefs, opinions?) If so, state that belief in one sentence.
  • If you have an existing point-of-view on your topic, how did you reach the conclusion that you already have?
  • What people may have influenced your opinion of this subject?
  • What experience do you have in connection with this topic?
  • Have you ever studied the best arguments on all sides of this issue?
  • What may be the strongest part of one side of the argument?
  • What is the strongest part of the other side of argument?
  • Are you making an objective or subjective claim on your topic?
  • Are you making a deductive or inductive argument?

Critical Analysis Documentation

  • What process will you follow in finding the most reliable and accurate sources of information for your essay?
  • Why is it critical to locate and cite the most reliable information available on your topic?
  • Generally, what are some characteristics of the most reliable sources?
  • Identify two fallacies or rhetorical devices that you found in researching your topic. Briefly explain which fallacies they are and cite where they came from?

Locate at least five potential sources for your research paper and answer the following questions for each:

  • Cite the source in APA format.
  • What is the date of this research?
  • Who wrote this information?
  • What are their background, profession, and qualifications?
  • What type of source is this? (Academic, media, general, open source, other)

What is the name of the supplement? What is the cost per pill? Is the supplement complete (does it contain all vitamins and minerals with established DRIs)? If no, what is missing?

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Comparing Supplements Label to Label

Answer these questions for supplement #1 and # 2 on a separate sheet of paper (20 points):
1. What is the name of the supplement?
2. What is the cost per pill?
3. Is the supplement complete (does it contain all vitamins and minerals with established DRIs)? If no, what is missing?
4. Are most vitamins and minerals present at or near 100% of the DRIs? Exceptions include biotin, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus, which are rarely found in amounts near 100% of the DRI. List any vitamins or minerals that are present in low amounts or in dangerously high amounts.
5. Does the supplement contain unnecessary nutrients or no nutrients? If yes, list them.
6. Is there “hype” on the label? Does the label use the terms “natural,” “organic,” “chelated,” “no sugar,” “stress–reliever,” etc.? List any terms used.

Provide a clearly stated claim on an issue based question of your interest. Provide at least two distinct reasons to support your claim. Support each reason with adequate grounds.

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Argument/Research Essay

Searching for a Better Way.

Terms:
Information Based Question: A question in which there is an absolute answer, whether you know what it is or not.
Issue Based Question: A question in which reasonable people may disagree and is not based entirely on taste or personal preference.
Claim: A stance on an issue based question.
Reasons: Rationale for supporting a particular claim.
Grounds: Support for reasons in form of experiences (personal or third party), professional opinions, statistics, studies, etc.
Warrant: The unstated values/beliefs your reasons rely upon.
Refutation: Means of discrediting reasons by either drawing into question the validity of the grounds, the warrant, or both.

Assignment:
• Provide a clearly stated claim on an issue based question of your interest.
• Provide at least two distinct reasons to support your claim.
• Support each reason with adequate grounds.
• Mention at least one reason of opposition.
• Address the reasons(s) of opposition by either refuting or conceding it/them.
• Incorporate at least 5 sources responsibly, using MLA style of documentation
(Word count 1500- 2000 not counting quotes, in-text citations, and “works cited” page. In all practicality, the assignment should be closer to 2000-2500 words)

Example:
• Claim: Virginia Beach public schools should adopt a mandatory uniform policy.
• Reason 1: It will reduce the severity of cliques and gangs within the student population.
• Backing 1: Personal experiences attending schools with uniforms and schools without.
• Reason 2: It will reduce the financial strain on parents who cannot afford designer clothing.
• Backing 2: Cost of popular designer clothing items worn by many Virginia Beach public school students.
• Reason of Opposition: It will stifle students’ individuality and freedom of expression .
• Refutation of Grounds: It will not stifle individuality, but will allow more focus on personality instead of superficial factors.
• Refutation of Warrant: Too much individuality is precisely the problem with society today. We need more focus on establishing a sense of community and belonging.