Myles Jellison: Research Draft 1 Workshop

1. What does the author do particularly well? Be specific. The article is easy to read. Not filled with super complicated text. 2. Ask the author for one particular concern that s/he had about the draft. Examine that area and see if you can offer the author helpful suggestions. Was there a particular component of this [...]

Essay #1 Cause/Effect – “Genetically Modified Seeds: The Killing of the Honey Bee’s”

From the flowers to the trees, bees of all kinds are very important for the continuation of not just plant life but all life here on Earth. Without the help from these pollinating insects the produce section of the local grocery stores might look at a lot different. Although the general public has not been [...]

Essay #2 Book review-A Book Telling the Truth

Zhenzihao Zhang   Maureen   ENGL213X   10/16/2011 A Book Telling the Truth                  I have read the book: “Food Inc”. Although industrial food is cheap and convenient, in Food Inc., Karl Weber reveals that industrial food is making us sicker, fatter, and poorer because food corporations’ deliberately keep information from consumers, biotechnology is applied without long-term [...]

Cause/Effect Draft: Stomp Out Erosion

Shishmaref, Alaska, which has been inhabited over four hundred years, is facing the possible relocation of their village due to drastic erosion. Shishmaref is not the only place suffering. The people of Alaskan villages cannot let erosion change our lives. The natural process of erosion eats away at our river banks, hillsides, and quite frankly [...]

Essay 1 Cause/Effect – Modern Farms Damage the Environment : Those You Don’t Know About Modern Farms

Zhenzihao Zhang   Maureen   ENGL213X   09/23/2011     Although modern farms are highly productive and seem harmless, the farms actually cause pollution to the environment because chemical fertilizer used in modern farms pollutes nearby rivers and poisons thousands of fish, pesticides are absorbed by plants, and the farms also exhaust the land. Half [...]

Essay 1 Cause/Effect- The Plastic Pollution Plague: “Please-Stick” to Recyclables

     From the time we hit our plastic alarm clock in the morning until the time we squeeze tooth paste out of its plastic sleeve onto our plastic tooth brush when we go to bed, we are surrounded by plastic. Our food is packaged in it, our children play with toys made from it, we [...]

Cause/Effect Essay Rough Draft

The Dam Effects: Future of the Klamath River? The dams that span the banks of the Klamath River in northern California and south Oregon have caused drastic changes in the regions ecosystem since they are were put in place. The dams have slowed water moving through the drainage resulting in uncontrolled algae growth from the [...]

Essay #1 rough draft Great Plastic Islands

Do you remember, as a child, what would happen if you tossed a message in a bottle into the ocean, where would it end up? Asia? The Philippines? South America? Chances are if you’re just throwing it from the beach it will wash back up a few miles up or down the shore depending on [...]

Rough Draft – Essay 3 – Earth Care Club

How can someone look at the beauty all around in the world and not appreciate it?  If you loved something, would it not be worth sacrificing for?  The answer is Yes!  Of course things that are beautiful tend to be delicate, but it is precious how delicate a thing can be and still exist in [...]

Book Review Draft: Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food

Book Review:  Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food Two thirds of Americans are overweight, defined by a body-mass-index BMI over 25 (Pollan, p.89).  Body-mass-index is determined by multiplying a person’s weight in pounds by 703 and dividing by their height in inches squared (www.whathealth.com).  One quarter of all Americans has Metabolic syndrome defined by the [...]