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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.
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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
----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.
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