Your major final project in our course is a 10-page nature or environmental essay. This kind of writing allows you to reflect on how you interact with the natural world even from a removed, virtual place, and how the act of writing affects that interaction.
To begin the craft of your essay, consider the essential components you’ll want to include:
A specific, unswerving sense of purpose.
Speaks to the shifting, essential relationship between the natural world and human experience
Understands the natural world as in flux, and honors the dynamic relationship between the natural world and the human world, as each brings forces to bear on the other across time
Makes ethical claims about the ways we live with the natural world
Seeks to make reading itself a sensory experience by employing evocative language and vivid descriptions
Possesses a strong understanding of the natural history of the place or places in question.
A genre or genres of nature and environmental writing
A claim, boldly stated in a prominent place in the essay
The claim should surprise readers. Alternatively, half of them should disagree with your claim.
A voice and tone that fits your essay’s context—”Identifying a Context, Imagining a Reader”
Your voice is the way you sound and your tone is the mood you set. These are determined by knowing your imagined reader.
A image, or narrow focus on the story of some phenomena, human-nature interaction, change, or something else happening in your place
10 peer reviewed sources of in-depth research for Authenticity and credibility
In this kind of essay, you achieve credibility by citing all the details, facts, descriptions, and quotes you include that are informed by your research.
Analysis. You are using image and research to develop your claim. The writing process is thinking on paper, not reporting; an idea that grows, not an encyclopedic fact-sharing. Signs of deep revision for focus, purpose, and argument
Signs of editing for economy of words, felicity of expression, grammar, mechanics, and capitalization
Formatting CriteriaIn-text citations, at least one per paragraph, giving credit to every source from which you draw information. A Works Cited page, formatted in MLA Style MLA Style formatting: Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, 1-inch margins, double spacing, an MLA-style header, and name with page number in each header after page 1
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