GOOD PAPERS
This is the opening “statement” of a paper that reveals its main argument.
Thesis
The Anthropocene supplants this geological epoch.
The Holocene
The main characters of Annhiliation are a biologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a member of this field that specializes in the scientific study of human biology and behavior.
This criteria helps journalists and editors know what will make a popular story, and it comprises factors such as timeliness, magnitude, and conflict.
Newsworthiness
This discourse centers on wilderness for wilderness's sake (and for the sake of recreation), and was pioneered by writers including John Muir.
Preservation
Robin Wall Kimmerer discussed these two complimentary-colored flowers as motivations to study science.
Asters and Goldenrod
A good paragraph should be opened by a strong this sentence.
Topic Sentence
The International Geological Congress voted in 2016 to recognize this decade as the start date of the Anthropocene.
1950s
Described as a “thorn” or a “catalyst” implanted in the earth, this is the name of the region the expeditions explore.
Area X
This legal principle is centered on the transparency of a government, agency or industry, and the ability for the public and the press to be informed about decisions that affect their communities.
Right to know
If you are concerned about how an organism's resilience as it relates to its exterior world, you are embodying this discourse often associated with 20th century scientists like Rachel Carson.
Ecology
This famous science writer wrote about the uncanny intelligence of plants and the scientists who study them.
Michael Pollan
An incomplete sentence is also known by this F-word.
Fragment
Paul Crutzen originally theorized this historical event as the beginning of the Anthropocene.
The Industrial Revolution
This is the name given by the biologist to the creature who lives and writes in the Tower.
The Crawler
Journalists are often tasked with translating information from this sphere (comprised of academic institutions, governmental agencies, corporations) into language accessible to the public sphere.
Technical sphere
This discourse celebrates the sublime beauty of the wilderness in contrast with the ugly pollution of the city. Thoreau and Wordsworth are proponents of this discourse.
Romanticism
Elizabeth Kolbert uses the Panamanian golden tree frog as a case study to discuss what human-caused event?
The Sixth Mass Extinction
This genre describes rhetorical techniques or filmmaking devices to understand how a director appeals to their audience.
Analysis
This is the field of geology where scientists analyze rock layers for historical markers; Jan Zalasciewicz is an example!
Stratigraphy
“No risk in the reward” is an example of this kind of verbal suggestion.
Hynotic
This journalistic principle refers to a lens or a "central organizing theme that connects the different elements of a news story into a coherent whole" or a coherent narrative.
Frame
This discourse builds on ecology by centering the "safety and quality of the environments where people lived and worked with concerns for social and economic justice."
Environmental Justice
Rachel Carson prefers this “b” word instead of pesticide or herbicide, to denote their deleterious effects.
Biocide
This paragraph summarizes your paper's argument, but also acknowledges the significance or future implications of your take on the topic.
Conclusion
This is the geological eon in which we currently live.
The biologist recounts seeing this fictionalized creature in a tidal pool.
Destroyer-of-worlds Starfish
This type of lawsuit is a strategy used by some individuals and industries to discourage public participation by conflating the right to comment with defamation and libel.
SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Litigation against Public Participation)
This critical discourse imagines environmental justice as a global impetus, and urges a transformation from a carbon-based economy to a renewable energy economy.
Just Transition
This celebrity horse could perform calculations by reading micro-expressions from his handler.
Clever Hans