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Meta discourse to help memo cohere

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Meta discourse hovers above the content revealing our path or signposting for readers.  These phrases and sentences will help you, including near the beginning and ends of paragraphs:

Having defined LCA, let's look now at Martin Hocking's work on . . .  (or, insert Charles Moore)

As you can see, Hocking's work is, essentially, an LCA on disposable hot beverage cups.

Should you need more information on climate change and energy efficiency, see this helpful and brief article at...

For purposes of this cursory analysis (short analysis, first-cut look, quick-and-dirty examination), we will now turn to Moore's groundbreaking work on ocean plastic.

Recall, that my recommendation relies both on:

  • my opening assumption about ocean plastic and
  • LCA as a decision criteria
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Block quotes on LCA definition (one strategy, for the LCA definition paragraph). You can also use a screen shot from this large slide set hosted by EPA. To be discussed in class.

 

Posted on Monday, October 8, 2018 at 07:27AM by Registered CommenterMarybeth Shea | CommentsPost a Comment

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