Kevin Billman

ESE 490

 

Writing Assignment:

            We have recently finished a unit studying South Asia.  One of the problems we studied in this region of the world was that of deforestation because of slash-and-burn farming and related it to the urban expansion occurring in Richmond.  How has this knowledge affected you and what does it make you feel?  You have the choice of writing one of the following: a letter to the editor or a proposal to your local government.

            For a letter to the editor, you must write a letter expressing your opinion on the expansion and urban growth occurring in Richmond for publication in the Richmond Register.  Either you must be in favor of the expansion or against it; you may not sit on the fence.  Be sure to give three reasons why you feel the way you do and also give two supporting statements as justification of your reasons.  Appropriate supporting justification would include statements that utilize knowledge gained through the unit of study and that relate what is going on in Richmond to what you have studied in other cultures.

            If you choose to write a proposal to your local government, you must clearly state what your proposal is and it must pertain to urban expansion.  Options would include proposals to protect land or to build a mall complex or a subdivision.  You must give three reasons why this proposal would be good for the city of Richmond.  Call upon your knowledge of economics and interdependence and give two supporting justifications for each reason.  Good answers will make use of knowledge gained in the unit of study and will relate the situation of Richmond to what you have studied.

            This assignment will be scored based on how fully you manage to answer the question.  Points will be deducted if the directions and mandated reasoning and justification statements are not present.  Failing grades will be given to those that either do not fulfill the assigned task or that are irrelevant to the task at hand.

 

 

Three reasons, each with two justifications equals nine requested statements.  Relevance to topic will be worth one point for a total of ten points.