Now that you’ve read David Wallace-Wells’s nonfiction journalistic analysis of scientific data to predict how climate change will impact humanity’s future and Octavia Butler’s fictional imagining of a climate-changed future set in modern-day Southern California, you can evaluate which elements from each book were most effective in:
- informing and persuading readers about the current and predicted future impacts of climate change on humanity
- arguing for particular approaches or solutions to climate change (both short-term and long-term) and
- persuading readers that climate change is an urgent issue about which they should care
Essay #2 Prompt: Using evidence (quotes) from each of the assigned textbooks, explain which genre (nonfiction, fiction, or some combination of both) is most effective in helping readers understand and care about climate change’s likely (predicted) impacts on humanity–both now and in the future.
In my opinion, using a combination of nonfiction and fiction to portray climate change would help readers learn and care about climate change the most. Nonfiction tells the story of what is actually happening through scientific data, while fiction allows readers to feel what the future may feel like. this is my sample thesis
Sample Thesis Options:
- A sample thesis could look (meaning, it can look different) something like:
- Nonfiction writing like David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth is the most effective genre for helping readers understand and care about climate change’s predicted impacts on humanity because it educates readers with scientific evidence that is so shocking and compelling that it makes readers care about how climate change will affect them in the future. OR
- Fiction writing like Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is the most effective genre for helping readers understand and care about climate change’s predicted impacts on humanity because it uses scientific evidence to create the dystopian setting. However, following characters as they live through a climate-changed world is what truly helps readers care about climate change’s impacts because reader’s empathize with the characters through the use of pathos. OR
- The most effective way to help readers understand and care about climate change’s likely impacts on humanity is to combine detailed analysis of scientific data in non-fiction writing with fictional writing that features well-developed characters and the effective use of pathos. The combination of information and emotion is the best way to reach and persuade readers.
- With this prompt, your essay should have a specific and direct thesis that makes a clear argument in favor of a particular genre (or combination of them). Your body paragraphs should support your thesis with direct quotes from the textbooks.
Minimum Word Count: 1,250 words
In addition to writing your essay, you are required to include a self-reflection.
SELF-REFLECTION INSTRUCTIONS
- Write in complete sentences and paragraphs (not a list).
- Write at least 250 words.
- Place your self-evaluation at the end of your essay as a new paragraph under the title Self-Reflection. Dont forget the word count for the self-reflection!
- Note: Your essay will be returned ungraded if your self-reflection is not written in paragraph form or if you do not include it at all. Your essay will be considered late until you resubmit your essay and reformatted self-reflection.
SELF REFLECTION PROMPT QUESTIONS:
PLEASE TELL ME THE STORY OF HOW YOU WROTE YOUR ESSAY (in paragraph form)
- How long did you spend writing this essay? (Days? Weeks? Hours?)
- What steps did you take to write the essay? What did you do 1st? 2nd? 3rd?
- Did you write a rough draft? Second draft? Third draft?
- Did you visit office hours?
- Did you seek help from other sources (Family? Friends? Tutors? Students?)
- What are the greatest strengths of your essay?
- What are the greatest weaknesses of your essay?
- What would you do differently next time?
- What steps did you take to improve your proofreading?
Total Minimum Length: 1,500 words (1,250 for the essay + 250 words for the self-reflection)
Submission guidelines: Submit your essay as a PDF. (Do NOT submit your essay as a Google Doc).
Formatting guidelines: Type your essay with 1″ margins, a 12-point font, and double spacing.
File naming guidelines: To make it easier for me to organize your essays, please name your essay as follows: LastnameFirstnameEssay2.pdf
Example: OnughaEricaEssay2.pdf
Note:
Do NOT submit your essay as a Google Doc. Here’s a one-minute video on how to export your Google Doc as a PDF
Note: Remember, your essay must consist of your original work and cannot be written (or modified) by AI.
Submission guidelines: Submit your essay as a PDF. In addition, copy and paste your essay to ensure that it is received on time.
Formatting guidelines: Type your essay with 1″ margins, a 12-point font, and double spacing.
File naming guidelines: To make it easier for me to organize your essays, please name your essay as follows: LastnameFirstnameEssay1.pdf
Example: OnughaEricaEssay1.pdf
Requirements: 1500 words
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