WRDS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pet Adoption, General Idea, Jargon
11 Oct 2016
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In this course: situation + form = genre. Ex: trying to tell a story about your childhood home vs trying to sell your home. Depending on what you"re doing, you"ll talk about it differently. Passage 2: debate/ comment: can tell because of language, author"s name, no citations, assuming we"ve read the same article. Passage 3: pet adoption: probably on a website, can tell by style and narrator. Writing for a university community: concise, professional, backed by reputable sources, appropriate tone, respect for who you"re writing for. Collapse: what can we learn from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature? a. Can the current global system adapt and survive the accumulating, highly interconnected problems it now faces? . Humans and the rest of nature implies we are a part of nature, not separate. Abstract tells us: current situation survivable, human and nature relationship, past teaches us how to handle the future.
