Sunday, March 7, 2010

Comment sanjeet singh's summary on the article A force to fight global warming by Turner, Oppenheimer, & Wilcove (2009),

Dear Sanjeet Singh,
You did a great job on summarising the article that you used on your writing assignment 1. I will be commenting on your summary paragraph by paragraph.
In 2nd paragraph, you summarised what the first argument put forth by the authors essentially. But you just wrote that "2 gigatonnes of carbon can be removed from the atmosphere annually by ecosystems and reforestation." I feel you should have added in the extra point on how much passenger vehicles emit just to show that the 2 gigatonnes of carbon is a significant amount.
For paragraph 3, I felt you could have added in the point that the restoration of ecosystems have the potential to remain as our only viable option to remove carbon from the atmosphere in the decades to come on a large scale basis.
As for your 4th paragraph, you wrote "Restoring ecosystems also provide jobs for the locals regain destroyed homes". I believe it should be written as restoring ecosystems also provide jobs for the locals to regain destroyed homes. A missing word can destroy what would be a good sentence. For the example you cited in this paragraph, i felt you should have talked about how something as minute as a crustacean can be so beneficial to mankind, what more larger organisms.
As for your final paragraph, I feel this paragraph does enough to sum up what the authors in the article is writing. Good job sanjeet.

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