Week 3: informational memo (rain gardens)
HEY: I confused people. Here is a link to a google doc you can use between 9 and 11 for Office Hours in the Sky/AMA
Memo we are starting: Here is a first-draft structure for your memo, by paragraph job
Define rain garden briefly, focusing on form and function: (definition paragraph); No citation necessary, as this is common knowledge)
Categorize rain gardens as a kind of low impact development (categorizing paragraph); Citation useful here, use EPA or the Bioretention Manual)
Illustrating paragraph describes the form and function
Document the effectiveness of rain gardens (logos-proof paragraph with ethos of citation authority); Citation essential here, based on Allen Davis' work)
SOURCES that will work for you are these:
Low Impact Development Center (founded by inventor of rain gardens, Larry Coffman);browse website, ten minutes or so.
UMD Cooperative Extention brochure, 52 pg. PDF
Skim this local news piece (2010) on managing run-off in Hyattsvlle. Skim this local news piece, too, from 2014.
On Monday, we will look at two additional sources, including work by Alan Davis, PhD, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on campus.
IF YOU WANT and only if you are likely to not resist the urge to search more:
Skim the Wikipedia entries for rain gardens and bioretention (technical term for this environmental developmet approach).
A Gathering of Rain Gardens here.
Marybeth Shea
Here is a google doc about using stasis theory to write memos. Our first memo is primarily a Conjecture-Definition memo. And, an arrangement(one of Aristotle's canons of writing---Invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory)
- PARAGRAPH 1 uses Stasis 1: Definition (what is a rain garden, briefly, by two functions)
- PARAGRAPH 2 uses Stasis 2: Classification (what type of technology is this? Hint: low impact development and storm water management)
- PARAGRAPH 3 extends the definition by
- Description (Illustrative; give detail on the layers of soil and the type of plants)
- include two examples; consider the ones on campus
- Where is stasis 3? TBD: hint -- practical causality
- Description (Illustrative; give detail on the layers of soil and the type of plants)
- PARAGRAPH 4 uses Stasis 4: Evaluation (is this good or bad? Use Dr. Davis' research -- within the UMD Cooperative Extension brochure as you do not have authority to evaluate based on your expertise)
We will talk about the size of the paragraphs and total "volumn" of memo in class through Wednesday. Hint is short.
Marybeth Shea
Folder with Notes Capture sheets (by dates); on 9/14 colleagues took notes on our rain garden discussion.
UPDATED! Ell Review CODE abduct821tike
For your enjoyment, a little gif about rain fall.
https://media.giphy.com/media/rR2AWZ3ip77r2/giphy.gif
Marybeth Shea
Link to slide set
Now, let's think about sentences:
Marybeth Shea
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