Learning Outcomes
In the essay titled "Harvesting Waves" I discuss three different ways in which we can use waves as energy and three instances in which it appeared in my research. The Inquiry of such an unrealistic and distant subject was a product of my honest curiosity developed in this course. I explored three drastically different ways of approaching the harvesting of sun energy. One dating back to 1940 was a novel called "Reason" produced by Isaac Asimov. In this book Asimov's own imagination and inquiry was displayed through his made up technology displayed throughout the book. After reading about the "beaming" of energy as seen in "Reason" I wanted to know if technology like this actually existed. In doing so I found real world technology that beams waves similar to that of the sun. Yet the profound difference between the two made me curious to find more of a connection. In doing so I found a Ted Talk that discussed real data and statistics giving a optimistic view of how something like beaming the suns energy down to earth may be possible. Following my inquiries I was able to get a profound view of something new and write a constructive essay explaining it.
In my writing "The Rise and Fall of a Species" I create an argumentative yet factual essay. In this essay I had to go through our reading and find which ones were most relevant to our prompt. In addition, I had to narrow down what to focus on. This challenge of focusing my essay on the pros and cons of technological advancement proved to be difficult. Yet through research skills and skimming skills I chose to focus my essay and select only quotes that delt with the theme of being scared of technological evidence. Even still I faced the challenge of finding evidence from the other side because all of my given sources were negative towards technological advancement. So, in addition to the given resources, I found statistics, opinions and data outside using research techniques like: filetype: PDF, and the use of the UCF library key term search.
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Revision. Students will be able to negotiate differences in and act with intention on feedback from
readers when drafting, revising, and editing their writing.
Original
In my research Proposal I give a brief story of my childhood and connect it to my subject. Later in the revision process I decide to remove much of the story but still leave the personal aspect and make the introduction more focused in doing so. This way my creative language doesn't cloud from the main idea I'm trying to convey in my introduction about bad power in Ethiopia and the first hand consequences I saw. I addition in my revision I add important context about Fusion about the difference from Fission. This is important as they are both nuclear energy and are hard for a reader to tell apart in their brain. Often with Fusion people confuse it with the more catastrophic Fission. Therefore, by adding a brief explanation differentiating the two and discussing the safety features, I put my reader to ease so I can introduce the