The consensus among scientists is that these dramatic changes in the climate are due to global climate change.
Feel free to use that or make up a new one it ultimately doesn’t matter to me
These are my instructions my professor gave to me:
Form & support a working thesis
Organize your ideas so the entire paper is readable from beginning to end
Use sources to inform your arguments
Add background or provide context
Explain terms or context
Back up your claims with source facts, stats, charts, examples, case studies, research, or other evidence
Construct your own arguments and ideas
Add counterarguments (Links to an external site.) and other points-of-view
Cite your sources use the menu in Purdue OWL (Links to an external site.)
Put borrowed language in quotation marks and add page numbers
Summarize and paraphrase in your own words
Introduce summaries and paraphrases see transitions (Links to an external site.)
Integrate & synthesize with signal phrases see transitions (Links to an external site.)
Use ellipses … and brackets [ ] to minimize quoted material
Put quotes longer than 4 lines in block quotes with page numbers
Establish authority with Pitt Library sources
Well-crafted introduction, conclusion, and thesis statement (Links to an external site.)
Grammatical & linguistic conventions
Consider the Rhetorical Situation (Topic, Audience, Purpose)
Proofread for accuracy and easy reading, compelling. Audience can’t put it down.
