REFLECTION ESSAY DRAFT 2

This will be the second of three drafts of a reflection essay. You should continue to write on the same topic as in the first draft UNLESS you received comments from the professor or teaching assistant asking you to refine or change your topic. This second draft of your reflection essay will need also to be submitted by the assigned due date and time (see CANVAS for submission information). For this second draft of your reflection essay, you are required to include AN ADDITIONAL social-theoretical perspective to examine/analyze your chosen environmental issue/topic. The second draft for your reflection essay will require you to integrate two more social-theoretical perspectives to examine/analyze your chosen environmental topic/issue. While the number of social theories you use for each subsequent draft of your essay will increase, your topic will remain the same throughout each draft so pick one you are very interested in! You must include at least five additional peer reviewed sources in addition to the assigned readings you can draw upon for your essay. Each draft should be no longer than five single-spaced pages.

Reflection essay: The reflection essay is divided into three drafts.

SECOND DRAFT:

The SECOND draft, should include TWO of the social-theoretical perspectives presented in the course textbook.

Your essay should first present your 'object of concern'. This should be something simple enough to say something specific about, and you will need to incorporate any comments that you received regarding the first draft. The book uses examples of, for instance, tuna, trees, wolves, etc... If you object is too complex -- for instance 'urban sprawl' or 'alternative energy' or 'fossil fuels' (and many of them were!) then it will not make a good focus.

The first part of the essay should state what the object is, why you have chosen it, and present some basic facts about the object such as how much/many, where it comes from, and why it is an 'environmental' concern. If you have doubts about how to do this, consult the chapters of the book that treat different objects of concern, choose an object that is similar in character or type to your own object and examine how they have introduced the object. This first part, introducing the object, should take 1 to 1.5 pages and should have at least three citations.

The second part, which is carried over from the FIRST DRAFT should state what social theory/perspective (of those presented textbook chapters, e.g., ethics, political economy, markets, hazards) that you are applying to your 'object'. This second, 'application of theory' part should take an additional 1 to 1.5 pages and again, it will need to incorporate any comments made. You should first explain what the perspective is, and then look through the sections of the chapter covering the theory that you want to use and apply AT LEAST THREE of the concepts in that chapter to your object of concern (ADD ONE CONCEPT TO YOUR FIRST DRAFT, IN OTHER WORDS) . You will need to say which concepts you are applying and cite the page numbers in our Environment and Society textbook so that we know which concepts you have applied in your particular analysis and where these are located in the text. These citations should use page numbers that correspond to the 2nd edition of the text: if you are using the 1st edition please consult with someone who has the 2nd edition to find the correct page numbers. You should explain the concept and show how it applies to your object of concern.

The *NEW* THIRD PART OF THE ESSAY will examine AND APPLY a second social theory/perspective (of those presented textbook chapters, e.g., ethics, political economy, markets, hazards) that you are applying to your 'object'. You will need to say what that theory is and something about it, then apply THREE of the concepts from the chapter to the analysis of your object. You will need to state what the concepts are and provide the relevant page number from the 2nd edition of the environment and society textbook. You will need to explain how these concepts apply to your object, and how they allow you to analyze or think about the object. This should take no more than 1.5 pages

The final part of the essay -- the final page -- will need to explain how these two perspectives fit together regarding the object, and provide a reflective statement saying how you think about this object differently than before you began this analysis.

Finally, you should have a concluding paragraph that reflects on the experience of writing the essay and tells the reader something that you have learned from this analytical process.