English for Academic Purposes Research and Study Skills - Essay Research Workbook

Project Research Workbook
Course Code and Title: FIBS3002 English for Academic Purposes,
Research and Study Skills
Project: Essay Research Workbook
Task 1 Choose Title
Choose one of the titles below (delete the question you will not be answering)
What is the topic of your chosen title and what is the question asking you to do?
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Provide definitions of key terms/vocabulary below:
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Essay Title: Climate change define as the long term change that are seen in the
weather,it is mainly due to the rise of global warming that mainly caused by the
human beings.
To what extent is Climate Change a result of human activities?
To what extent is Fast Fashion driving climate change?
Task 2 References
Search online for 10 relevant and trustworthy academic sources and list them below using the Harvard
Style Referencing System. Be sure to include links for all online sources.

Source 1 van Valkengoed, A.M. and Steg, L., 2019. Meta-analyses of factors
motivating climate change adaptation behaviour. Nature Climate
Change. 9(2). pp.158-163. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-
0371-y)
Source 2 Korell, L. and et.al 2020. We need more realistic climate change
experiments for understanding ecosystems of the future. Global Change
Biology. 26(2). pp.325-327.
(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14797)
Source 3
Creutzig, F. and et.al 2017. The underestimated potential of solar energy
to mitigate climate change. Nature Energy. 2(9). pp.1-9.
(https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy2017140)
Source 4
Hayes, K. and et.al 2018. Climate change and mental health: Risks,
impacts and priority actions. International journal of mental health
systems. 12(1). pp.1-12.
(https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-018-0210-6)
Source 5 Cheng, L. and et.al2019. How fast are the oceans
warming?. Science. 363(6423). pp.128-129.
(https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aav7619)
Source 6
Raza, A. and et.al 2019. Impact of climate change on crops adaptation
and strategies to tackle its outcome: A review. Plants. 8(2). p.34.
(https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/8/2/34)
Source 7 Cramer, W. and et.al 2018. Climate change and interconnected risks to
sustainable development in the Mediterranean. Nature Climate
Change. 8(11). pp.972-980. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0299-2?
hlkid=640f283ad1524bd5af11c46baafffa79&hctky=&hdpid=37cc4487-0a8b-4708-bb43-
731de4fc21bd)
Source 8 Kellogg, W.W. and Schware, R., 2019. Climate change and society:
consequences of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. Routledge.
(https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429048739/climate-change-
society-william-kellogg-robert-schware)

Source 9 Flörke, M., Schneider, C. and McDonald, R.I., 2018. Water competition
between cities and agriculture driven by climate change and urban
growth. Nature Sustainability. 1(1). pp.51-58.
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-017-0006-8)
Source 10 Bonan, G.B. and Doney, S.C., 2018. Climate, ecosystems, and planetary
futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system
models. Science, 359(6375).(https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam832
8)
Task 3 Source Evaluation
Conduct the CRAAP Test on one of your listed sources. Complete notes on the results in the following
template:
Source (Harvard Reference): Korell, L. and et.al 2020. We need more realistic climate
change experiments for understanding ecosystems of the
future. Global Change Biology. 26(2). pp.325-327
Currency This reference source is latest, and it covers the all current
information regarding the climate change. As how it impacting
the ecosystem, and what are the possible impacts which is seen
from the rise of global warming. In this article author have
emphasized to do realistic experiments in climate change in
order to understand the future ecosystem.
Relevance This source is relevant as it written in a academic tone as well as
consists of all the verifiable content.
Authority Lotte korell author working in a department of community
ecology at the environmental research center in Germany.
Accuracy This source is accurate as it directly talks about the climate
change topic, which gives the deep knowledge to the reader to
know about the topic.

Purpose Main purpose of the article seen that to develop the good
understanding of the reader about the climate change topic.
Task 4 Timetable of planning
Submit an Essay Plan Timeline outlining the tasks involved and the estimated time range for the
completion of each stage. Mark the actual completion date for each task as it is finished.
Planned
Dates
Task Stages Date
Completed
30/12/21 Tasks 1-3: Analyse the essay Q and brainstorm ideas
Preliminary research – finding trustworthy sources and the CRAAP Test
03/01/22
04/01/21 Task 5: Reading and note-taking 04/01/21
05/01/21 Task 6: Essay Plan - outlining main points and evidence from reading
materials including an introduction, main body and conclusion
06/01/21
08/01/21 Revise Essay plan/edit 08/01/21
09/01/21 Research and Revise main points – including for and against arguments 10/01/21
11/01/21 Write plan in the Workbook 11/01/21
15/01/21 Workbook Submission 15/01/21