3 topics and 3 article summaries assignment
For this assignment, you have not yet committed to a topic. You are at the brainstorming stage.
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Choose 3 topics that sound interesting to you.
- Browse the rated climate solutions in the Project Drawdown Explorer and the list of topic suggestions in our Intro & topics page. At least one topic should be from one or the other of these, call them, topic suggestions.
- At least one topic should be something that is *not* from the topic suggestions above, but that you think would be an interesting one that connects with the theme of "ways to address climate change"
- The third topic can be either another one from the list of topics or your own choice.
Read widely about each of your 3 possible topics. Some starting places:
- For good, in-depth sites, but pitched to a general audience, see the High Quality, general audience sources on the annotated bibliography page.
Tip: If you don't already know how to search any particular website, here's an example:
Tip: Save a pdf copy of each article you want to refer back to in a folder on your Google drive. If the article is in PDF form already great. Otherwise you can "Print to PDF" to save it that way. Then, using Notability, you can highlight it / mark it up / take notes on it.
What you'll hand in
You'll explore 3 possible topics. Make sure to indicate which of the 3 topics you currently find most interesting!
For each one of the 3:
- Write up a topic title and 2-3 sentences describing the topic, and what you'd like to focus on.
- Find, and summarize 1 article related to the topic:
- You may use a bulleted list or write a few sentences.
- Include *informal* bibliographic information (e.g. a URL to an online article): This is not bibliographic info like you'd include in a paper. However, enough information that your reader can find the article that you read.
Before you hand it in, make sure to indicate which of the 3 topics you currently find most interesting!