Week 6: Coffee Cup MEMO/Short recommendation report
NEW for Wednesday and Friday: OHitS/AMA doc
You also have a prompt to Eli Review for step one. You were notified in ELMS but here is the link, too.
Screencast, mp4 overview about this week and approaching assignment 2. GoogleMeet (same link as alwas) for Monday at either 9AM or 10AM; you can come to either.
Scientific method has a cousin -- actually an ancestor -- in stasis theory. This conceptual diagram show stasis method with an environmental science decisionmaking context.
Writing techniques in this memo: Paragraphs! Paragraph transitions. We will take up a new idea for use in sentences, with emphasis on "empty subjects." Let's also look at brief document on transitions, taken from a real-world setting. We will be looking at tight transitions and loose transitions.
Document genre is the memo. However, this NEW memo content is more complex and wide-ranging. Transitions are a way to thread the cognition for our busy readers. Your first memo focused on the definition stasis, with a evaluation move at the end. Here the concept was more narrow and very concrete. We will look at abstract concepts, where the science is unclear and yet we must make a decision.
Leaf it to Us: Now, our boss wants a problem-solution memo about the type of coffee cup we should use in our firm. Therefore, we need to frame this work with the stasis of policy (what ought we do).
Here are your background readings (copy this google doc to your drive and take notes on your reading). Begin with these pieces, please. Others are out there but our focus is narrow here and your research skills are not the point here.
Back to our boss: Jane wants a coffee cup policy for the office that is "green." This means, your first stasis or conjecture question is
What is better for the environment: the paper coffee cup or the styrofoam coffee cup?
Jane wants you to use available science (see the readings linked above). She already knows that the reusable coffe cup is better; be real, though, as people use disposables and she wants an analysis for company decisionmaking. Here is an arrangement for your memo/recommendation report. Roughly, P = paragraph. HINT: open this large image in new tab in your browser to see where we are going with this pattern.
Marybeth Shea
Our work this week is to read the background reading documents and begin to make plan to place bits of information into the structure I gave in the yellow/greenish flowchart. How is your reading going? Are you using the inserted tables to assess ethos, as well as capture logos data?
Para 1 INTRO + preview RECOMMENDATION+ FRAMING PROBLEM (climate chang or fate of ocean plastic)
Para 2 DESCRIBE localized office problem (quantify problem)
Para 3 DESCRIBE by COMPARE/CONTRAST chains for paper and styrofoam recycling.
Para 4 (NODE JUNCTION) Describe briefly your weighted environmental problem (Do you need a source? Think on this.)
Para 5 DEFINE life cycle assessment (part of you analysis work), with EPA referral link
Para 6 (NODE JUNCTION) EVALUATION, with formal sources
Para 7 RESTATE your recommendation, with acknowledgement of other frame
PARA 8 Polite closure and your additional thoughts.
Marybeth Shea
What if you give a party and no one comes? You give another party in the same place. Here is your document from Monday, now for use on Friday's OHitS/AMA (also linked at top of Week 6 entry.
Here is your ELi Review task, already in the ELMS calendar and at the top of this page.
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