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9 Cosmology

Writing

A. Discuss with a partner.
1. What have you heard about Greta Thunberg
and the #FridaysForFuture movement?
2. What steps are you taking to help the
environment?
3. What measures do you think your
government should introduce to save our
planet? Anyone who says that climate change is not
an issue clearly has their head buried in the
increasingly hot sand. Scientists around the globe
B. Look at these tips for writing a persuasive have highlighted the need for significant changes
essay. How is it similar or different to an to take place in order to halt, if not reverse, the rising
argumentative essay?
temperatures of the earth and its atmosphere.
Writing a persuasive essay Unfortunately, with many governments more
• identify your thesis statement interested in saving money than saving the planet,
it is up to us to make a difference.
• write a short introduction
• use emotional language to appeal to your As teenagers, we will inherit the earth – if there is
target reader in each paragraph anything left of it. Governments and big businesses

• write a conclusion, including a call to action have been refusing to listen to science for so
long that we are reaching the point of no return.
• use a variety of linkers
Climate scientists have been making devastating
• use a personal tone
th
predictions about the future since the mid-20
• avoid using contractions in formal writing century, and while their theories have frequently
• proofread your essay for grammar and been ridiculed at the time of publication, time is
spelling mistakes proving them to be correct.

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