In todays’ video, you will learn how to write an essay about the environment.
This will work for classes such as Sociology, Political Science, Natural Science, any other discipline or even for work.
Now the biggest challenge when writing an essay is coming with material.
And the easiest way to keep your ideas flowing is to break your topic into subtopics. That is the secret.
So let’s say our subject is the environment. Now it’s a vast topic, but let’s see how we can break it down.
Now the easiest way to break up a topic is to use the Power of Three!
So let’s see, what are some of the parts of environment? What can the environment be broken part into?
- Climate Change. This will answer the question “How is climate changing?”
- Biodiversity. All the life on this planet. This will answer the question “How is animal life affected?” Including human life too.
- Pollution. This will answer the question “How does pollution affect the world, how it affects people? How it affects us?”
So environment is a very vast topic and you could write an essay on it. In fact you can write a book on it.
And if you would write a book about it or if you have to write a longer essay, or if you have to write a really big paper or a dissertation even or a thesis, you could break it down into these parts.
However, a better thing is to do is to probably pick one of these aspects of the environment and write an essay on it. Let’s try and see how this would work.
So let’s say we would pick global warming. Now it’s a big enough issue in itself and let’s see how we could write an essay about just global warming.
Well first of all, we’re going to use the Power of three. What could be three aspects of Global Warming that we could talk about?
When you’re writing about Global Warming, you could divide it into these three aspects:
- The causes. This would answer the question “What causes global warming?” So we are talking about the causes. It is similar to talking about the past. So what happened prior to today that made today the reality? Which leads us to the next part:
- Effects. Which is what’s going on today. This will answer the question ”How is the planet affected?” So what are the effects that we are observing today that are results of the causes in the past? So you see, this is similar to the past and the present.
- Predictions. Now that is the future. This will answer the question “What is the prognosis if no action is taken if we do nothing to about environment? And what would be the prognosis if we do take action?” So you can actually have two nice little subsections going in the predictions part: What would be the prognosis if we do take action, and what if we don’t?
Makes sense? Okay.
Now here’s an example of how you could structure an essay about an environmental issue.
Here’s a sample structure. Let’s we’re going to write about global warming.
We are obviously using the Power of Three and these would be the three subsections: there would be causes, effects and predictions.
So what can we do to subdivide each of these sections further to make our life easier writing this essay?
So in other words, how would we come up with subsections?
So in Section one, the causes. Now what are some of the causes of the global warming as we know it today? So the three aspects, three causes, three things that cause the global warming are things like :
- People, us and our activity
- Industry, work of corporations
- Nature, the natural causes
Because the sun does indeed shine and it is known that in throughout history that the climate has been changing. We actually know that climate does change naturally because in the past we didn’t have all the manufacturer and everything but the big corporations, we still had climate fluctuations.
Now in the next part. What could we do in the next part?
We could talk about the people and nature in the effects. Why? Because we wouldn’t really want to talk about industry. I took out industry from here because I don’t really care (who really cares) how global warming affects big corporations and their profits.
Here we would talk about how it would affect us human beings. And how it affects our environment, the nature around us. Makes sense?
Now you could definitely come up with a third one, you just have to think a little bit but it doesn’t really matter. You could divide nature into two things. You could divide it into animals and plants.
Next, predictions. We’d probably do the same thing. If we don’t do something about it, how would we as human beings be affected? And how would our environment be affected, meaning the nature (animals and plant life.)
Hope this makes sense. Just don’t forget to use the Power of Three!