MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Good morning. 

I will talk about Friday's Eli Review task where I will post TWO DIFFERENT LINKS where you begin your 

• Train Ride to Atlanta, planning to wrap up between the last day of class and the first weekend of finals
• Train Ride to Boulder, planning to wrap up after the first weekend and before/on the last day of finals.

Ok, craft lessons, re Theme and Variations!

BEGINNING with Definitions.  You can consider bullets.  These work well when the concepts are closely related. For example,

Let's review PCR types before we look at Guerro's modifications in her study:  

1. Polymer chain reaction (PCR) tests for....
2. Quantitative PCR (qPRC)...
3. Pyro sequencing ....

The treatment studies for Patel's rice productivity work examine subtle soil pH variability in spring crops typical of terraced fields in SE Asia.  The soil categories, based on surveys of Thailand posted at the UN FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) data base:

podulized categories 3-8

spodosoil category 6

hydropodosoils (two)  designed for this experience but based on FAO emerging research linked here.

More complex definitions might need their own paragraphs. Consider defining what a highly conserved gene is and how that work helps scientists use animals for human disease. In my work with farmers and nitrogen scientists, i need to define Q method, which tests subjectivity rather than objectively.  Farmers get this but scientists tend not to.  I use this video definition all the time! OOPS YouTube failure.  Will try later.

MIDDLE PARAGRAPHS with Variation in the fat portion of the document aka locating your analysis after one or more of the body paragraphs -- you might want to write a short paragraph in YOUR VOICE after the body paragraph.  I call this the fat-pearl small gold bead necklace pattern.

ENDING--Wrapping up: What is YOUR MAIN MESSAGE here?  What take-away do you want people to remember.  Readers are cognitively awake as the document closes.  This is a good cognitive condition to remember for you as a speaker/writer and as a listener/reader. 

From Patel above and other rice studies: my main message is that nighttime temps under climate change pose kernal malformation problems for the world's most important grain.