FIBS3002 English for Academic Purposes: Climate Change Essay

This assignment focuses on researching and planning an essay about the extent to which climate change is a result of human activities. It includes defining key terms, searching for ten relevant academic sources using the Harvard Style Referencing System, and conducting a CRAAP test on one of the sources to evaluate its credibility. The assignment also features a detailed timetable for planning and completing the essay, note-taking from multiple sources using different methods like Cornell notes, linear notes, and mind maps, and an essay plan with a thesis statement, arguments for and against the statement, and supporting citations. The essay plan covers an introduction with background information and specific facts, an outline statement, and a structured approach to analyzing the relationship between human activities and climate change.

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?
_____________________________________________________________________________
Provide definitions of key terms/vocabulary below:
_____________________________________________________________________________
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

Task 5 Note taking and Making
Make notes on at least three sources and record them below. Try to use varied note taking techniques
and ensure that notes are summaries in your own words and not direct copies from original sources.
i. Cornell Notes:
Essay Title: To what extent is Climate
Change a result of human activities?
Date:
Reference:
Kellogg, W.W. and Schware, R.,
2019. Climate change and society:
consequences of increasing atmospheric
carbon dioxide. Routledge.
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
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).
Key Ideas
Highly used of fossil fuels
Deforestation
Rise in green house gases
Notes
Humans uses the natural resources to run their
factories, that creates the negative impact over
environment.
Cutting down of the trees and forest in excessive
amount that leads to climate change.
Due to this it is found that the amount of carbon
dioxide is highly available in atmosphere that cause
pollution.

Questions
Summary of key ideas
Climate change is driving many changes in the
ecosystem. Due to the climate change many health
related problem has occurred for the humans, its
impact not only limited to the humans but also on
marine life, animals. As human are one of the reason
that drives the changes in the environment for their
sake of money they uses the natural resources as
fossil fuels in a excessive amount. It is clear that
fossil fuels are responsible for releasing high amount
of carbon dioxide in the environment, it is done
when human burns the fossil fuel that leads to drive
changes in the environment. It is also seen that due
to the rise of green house gases are the major
reason that leads to the global warming. Human
activities are highly responsible for rising the
temperature in green house gases, such gases are
carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane etc. as
human burns the natural species, highly used the
transportation which causes the pollution in the
How excessive use of fossil fuel impact the
environment and derives many changes in climate?
How deforestation is responsible for global
warming? Also describe how it disrupts the complete
carbon cycle?
List the reason which are responsible to rise the
temperature of green house gases and its possible
negative impact?

environment that are highly responsible for serious
health issues in human beings. Trees and nature are
the main element that gives the essential element
which is oxygen to human to live their life, as oxygen
is the ,main source of living, but human's greedy
nature to cut down the trees and forest leads to
deforestation that is threat for living. Deforestation
leads to soil erosion, flooding and also hosts the
other vulnerable problems for the humans.
ii. Linear Notes
Essay Title: Human activities that drives changes in environment
Date:
Reference:
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
Cheng, L. and et.al2019. How fast are the oceans warming?. Science. 363(6423). pp.128-
129.
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
1. Pollution
1.1 Negatively impacts the biodiversity.
1.2 Drives changes in livelihood.
2. Urbanization
2.1 Use of significant amount of energy that cause the global warming
2.2 Rapid migration of the human from rural to urban creates the pollution in environment.
2.3 Leads to rise green house effect
3. Transportation
3.1 Excessive use of vehicle cause the air pollution in the atmosphere.
3.2 Increase the proportion of the nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that leads to
vulnerable changes in climate.

Summary
Pollution is the main reason that creates the many changes in the natural habitant, due to this humans are
facing severe health regarding issues, pollution is the life threat for them. Human beings are the main reason
who have greedy nature to live their life without any restriction, in order to make their life luxurious they
excessively used the natural resources which cause the environmental pollution, also enhance the carbon
footprints in the air all factors are interlinked to each other. As highly increase of methane, No2 and CO2 in
the air affects the ecosystem.

iii. Mind Maps or Spider Diagrams
Essay Title: Date:
Reference:
Prakash, 2021
Climate change
which is result
of human’s
irresponsible
activities
Thesis statement: To investigate the vulnerable impact
of the climate change, that are driving many changes in
the ecosystem.
Burning
of the
fossil
fuels
Deforest
ation
Rise of green
house gases
Natural
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Pollutio
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Volcano
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Continent
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Task 6 Planning
Write an essay plan, this is only a plan and you may change it over time. Include a thesis statement
highlighting the main argument. Include arguments for and against the thesis statement. Include
citations to support the points you make.
Essay Title: Climate change
Introduction This report illustrates as how human are the major carrier for driving changes in the
environment. It is seen that climate change is becoming the major issues for this time, as it welcome the
different virus and other disastrous changes that threats the human life. As contemporary climate involve the
both natural and man made activities are responsible for this cause.
General /
Background As warming or heating of the climate is mainly due to the develop of CO2 and
other green house gases in atmosphere. These gases are naturally present in the

Information atmosphere, they rise when the temperature of the planet rise highly. It gives the
vulnerable results as in a natural disaster form.
Specific Facts and
Information (more
focused)
It has been seen that climatic changes enhance the threat of the natural disaster.
People who are living at hilly areas are forced to leave their habitant due to the
probability of earthquake and other disaster activity. Countries with low
economy are not able to adapt the changes in climate, as it requires the massive
amount of resources in order to reduce the impact of this cause.
Thesis Statement To investigate the vulnerable impact of the climate change, that are driving
many changes in the ecosystem.
Outline Statement To analyse at what extent climate change impacts the human life.
To assess the main reason that leads to global warming.
To investigate the factors that rise the temperature of CO2 in environment.
Yes – main ideas and support
Example: (humans are the main cause of climate change to a certain extent)
OR (fast fashion is driving climate change to a certain extent)
1.Transportation that are highly used by the humans induces the pollution in the environment that drives
the many changes in natural habitants. Massive use of the resources in the factories break down the
ecosystem cycle that leads to global warming.
_______________________________________________________________________________
 Seddon and et.al 2020
 O'brien, Selboe and Hayward, 2018
2. Cutting down of the trees and burning of the fossil fuels shows the selfish nature of human which cause
the release of the toxic gases in the
environment._____________________________________________________________________________
__
 Rosenzweig and et.al 2020
 Rosenzweig and et.al 2018
3. _Deforestation is the vulnerable activity that is done by the human as in which the human cut down the
forest and trees in order to fulfil their needs which mainly cause the global warming also raise the sea

level. ______________________________________________________________________________
 Capasso, Gianfrate and Spinelli, 2020
 Gobler, 2020
No – main ideas and support
(natural processes are responsible for climate change to a certain extent, not only humans)
(fast fashion is only driving climate change to a certain extent – there are solutions)
1. __Volcano eruption that erupts the gases and dust particles in the atmosphere, during the eruption it
suddenly raise the temperature of the gases and also the dust or other particles spewed in the air cause
the pollution. _________________________________________________________________________
 Woollings and et.al
2018
 Steg, 2018
2. _Continental drift also drives the changes in the environment, as the separation of the landmasses
cause the changes in wind flow which impacts the
climate.____________________________________________________________________________
 Searchinger and et.al 2018
 Thomas and et.al 2019
3. __Comets and meteorites impacts the climate, when any asteroid strikes the land or water bodies it
eject the enormous amount of gases and dust particles in the ocean or land.
___________________________________________________________________________
 Howe and et.al 2019
 Islam and Winkel, 2017
Conclusion
Summary of Main
Body Ideas It has been summarized that human is the main carrier for raising the bar of gases, they
use the environmental resources for their sake which negatively impacts the habitant.
This report highlight not only humans but also natural occurrence can cause the climate
change.
Reinforce Thesis
Statement Burning of natural resources as coal, and oils that releases the high amount of carbon
dioxide gases in the environment cause the climate change.
Recommendation
or Prediction It is recommended to reduce the man activity that creates the pollution, humans are

required to use less amount of transportation or to use recycled materials that do not
cause threat for them and for the marine lives.
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Rosenzweig, C. and et.al 2020. Climate change responses benefit from a global food system
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