MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Grammar lesson:  apostrophe. Let's use M.I.'s guide on The Oatmeal.  His work can keep you from committing apostrophe catastrophe.  :)  Here is an infographic that you can also refer to, about apostrophe abuse.

Mighty Red Pen, a blog site by a killed editor, offers this special case of Arkansas (whihc means that Kansas lurks in the background).

Now, what about the memo?  Some additional paragraph options:

• brief paragraph on climate change (use IPCC as the citation, by referring) TBDiscussed in class.
• Brief paragraph on fate of ocean plastic (use PNAS March 2016 article)
• Compare/contrast about the above problems as resisting direct quantitative comparison (incommensurate) --- both are "wicked problems 
• New solutions paragraph:  compostable styrofoam or other innovation (ocean plastic sweeper?)
• Discussion of re-usables, with acknowledgement that ceramics, glass, metal are all energy intensive industries
• Other ideas you may have? 
• Does Herman Daly's video help you with the problem description/classification?  Think about concepts:
  • sinks -- where stuff goes (ocean and atmosphere)
  • material inputs (energy and stocks -- wood stock for paper, petroleum stock for styrofoam)
  • depletion-pollution