recommendation report on a future

Research paper Order Description Module Twenty-Nin" rel="nofollow">ine – First Research Report The fin" rel="nofollow">inal project in" rel="nofollow">in the course (Module 30) is a recommendation report on a future (10 years hence) energy source for the state of Florida. The energy source or sources you recommend must be coupled with a thoughtful, sensible argument in" rel="nofollow">in support, and the same for an argument again" rel="nofollow">inst other likely candidates. This assignment, Module 29, however, is prelimin" rel="nofollow">inary to Module 30. Before we get to Module 30, there will be a prelimin" rel="nofollow">inary research report on the energy consumption in" rel="nofollow">in your own (or your family’s) household, together with research on where that energy comes from and what energy resources are in" rel="nofollow">involved, and a look at how the state of Florida makes plans for energy. The reality is that the population of Florida is growin" rel="nofollow">ing year by year, and the amount of electrical energy consumed by each person on average (called “per capita”) is also growin" rel="nofollow">ing. It is the responsibility of the Florida Public Service Commission (PCS) to make plans ten or more years in" rel="nofollow">into the future to meet the projected need or “demand” when that time comes. The in" rel="nofollow">instructional purposes of the cumulative, fin" rel="nofollow">inal assignment (Module 30) are twofold: one is to in" rel="nofollow">increase your awareness of the importance of energy issues in" rel="nofollow">in our state and in" rel="nofollow">in the global community; the other is to provide experience in" rel="nofollow">in writin" rel="nofollow">ing a seriously researched and argued recommendation report on energy sources for the state of Florida in" rel="nofollow">in the next 10 years. Our textbook in" rel="nofollow">in Chapter 6, Research your Subject and in" rel="nofollow">in Chapter 18, Writin" rel="nofollow">ing Recommendation Reports, provide guidance. Chapter 18 explain" rel="nofollow">ins the logic and structure of this sort of report, though you need not go in" rel="nofollow">into the formalities of front matter and back matter for your report. Use MLA format. As before, refer to the website at Purdue University for guidance on MLA formattin" rel="nofollow">ing: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01 For Module 30, later, you will need to come to some position of your own in" rel="nofollow">in order to make an effective argument. Then craft your document to lay out your arguments, begin" rel="nofollow">innin" rel="nofollow">ing as usual with a purpose and summary statement followed by a lengthy discussion section and a concludin" rel="nofollow">ing statement. I will be lookin" rel="nofollow">ing for a fair representation of each of your sources, and for writin" rel="nofollow">ing that in" rel="nofollow">integrates those sources in" rel="nofollow">into a reasoned argument that would appear at least plausible if not convin" rel="nofollow">incin" rel="nofollow">ing to other honors students. I will be lookin" rel="nofollow">ing, too, for careful use of modifiers/qualifiers such as adjectives and adverbs to clarify your poin" rel="nofollow">ints and enhance persuasion. It might help to imagin" rel="nofollow">ine that you are addressin" rel="nofollow">ing the Florida Public Service Commission, rather than me. I as your direct audience and the Florida PSC as your in" rel="nofollow">indirect audience are in" rel="nofollow">interested in" rel="nofollow">in makin" rel="nofollow">ing plans to meet consumer needs/demands 10 years in" rel="nofollow">in the future, and they have to do that dependably, realistically, economically, and within" rel="nofollow">in that time frame. Research Assignment: Number of Sources. For this first part of the fin" rel="nofollow">inal project, you need to research and report on only three sources. Indicate your sources by listin" rel="nofollow">ing them in" rel="nofollow">in the Works Cited section of your report. First Required Source: This first assignment gets us started conductin" rel="nofollow">ing research and reportin" rel="nofollow">ing on it. This is in" rel="nofollow">in support of UCF’s campus-wide in" rel="nofollow">initiative to in" rel="nofollow">increase environmental and ecological awareness and to cultivate a consciousness of sustain" rel="nofollow">inability in" rel="nofollow">in order to act responsibly to provide for our future. How much energy we use and how it is and will be generated is a key element in" rel="nofollow">in this matter. Collect the followin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">information about energy consumption in" rel="nofollow">in your home/household of origin" rel="nofollow">in or from a comparable source such as the home of a friend or relative: · How much energy is used per month on average? · How much does this energy cost the homeowner? · What company provides this energy? · How is this energy generated? (coal, gas, oil, solar, win" rel="nofollow">ind, geothermal, nuclear). (Don’t worry if you don’t have this in" rel="nofollow">information at hand—you can get it as part of the second assignment.) · Is this in" rel="nofollow">information news to you or surprisin" rel="nofollow">ing? Two More Required Sources: The purpose is to learn where electric energy comes from in" rel="nofollow">in the state of Florida and how this compares to the U.S. as a whole. This in" rel="nofollow">information will be expected to appear in" rel="nofollow">in your fin" rel="nofollow">inal recommendation report as well. Task: · At the website of the Florida Public Service Commission, www.psc.state.fl.us, from the top menu bar, go to “Publications,” then “Reports and Other Resources,” then “Show Facts and Figures” to fin" rel="nofollow">ind in" rel="nofollow">information on Florida as a whole. Skim the entire report but focus on charts. Put this in" rel="nofollow">information—how your utility generates the electric power you use--in" rel="nofollow">in your report with a brief explanatory text explain" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing what it all shows to you. · To fin" rel="nofollow">ind the Ten-Year Site Plans for the utility from which your household draws its electrical energy is strangely complicated and hidden. You need to do a plain" rel="nofollow">in Google search under “Florida Public Service Commission Ten Year Site Plans” then fin" rel="nofollow">ind your particular energy provider. Biefly summarize only the key poin" rel="nofollow">ints of your provider’s report, and in" rel="nofollow">include this in" rel="nofollow">in your own report. · At the website of the U. S. Energy Information Admin" rel="nofollow">inistration, www.eia.gov, from the top menu bar, go to Sources & Uses, then note all the different sin" rel="nofollow">ingle sources, then go to the “Total Energy” item. Also from that page, from the top banner, look in" rel="nofollow">in to “Learn About Energy” and the FAQs for concise in" rel="nofollow">information on a range of energy sources, both renewable and non-renewable. From the Consumption and Production tab, collect in" rel="nofollow">information that presents a comparison to the in" rel="nofollow">information about Florida gain" rel="nofollow">ined above. In your memo report, write one or more paragraphs summarizin" rel="nofollow">ing similarities and differences between Florida and the U. S. as a whole. Remember, you are only briefly but clearly summarizin" rel="nofollow">ing what is presented at these websites. At this poin" rel="nofollow">int you have three sources about energy in" rel="nofollow">in the state of Florida: · your own household · the Florida Public Service Commission regardin" rel="nofollow">ing energy in" rel="nofollow">in the state itself · and the U.S. Energy Information Admin" rel="nofollow">inistration on how the picture in" rel="nofollow">in Florida compares to the picture of the nation as a whole. The purpose of this first, prelimin" rel="nofollow">inary report toward the overall recommendation project is to in" rel="nofollow">inform the reader about how you specifically and Florida citizens in" rel="nofollow">in general obtain" rel="nofollow">in their electrical power. You can imagin" rel="nofollow">ine that you are writin" rel="nofollow">ing to me on in" rel="nofollow">information then to be forwarded to the Florida Public Service Commission. Writin" rel="nofollow">ing Assignment: In your openin" rel="nofollow">ing paragraph(s), state your topic and purpose. Explain" rel="nofollow">in the need and importance of this topic, in" rel="nofollow">includin" rel="nofollow">ing climate change/global warmin" rel="nofollow">ing; the dwin" rel="nofollow">indlin" rel="nofollow">ing supplies of non-renewable sources; national security; environmental damage, the in" rel="nofollow">increasin" rel="nofollow">ing consumption (“demand”) for energy in" rel="nofollow">in our state; and the agin" rel="nofollow">ing condition of many power plants, requirin" rel="nofollow">ing them to be rebuilt or be replaced by new plants of whatever variety. Length. 3-5 pages (double-spaced per MLA) plus a Works Cited section would probably suffice, but the best advice is to use a much space as you feel is needed to do a good, solid job (all text is to be double-spaced). You will be graded on your conformity to MLA format as well as on the content of your text. Format. Write it up in" rel="nofollow">in the general MLA format like the sample undergraduate paper at this site: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/16/ This in" rel="nofollow">includes headin" rel="nofollow">ing, title, citations, and double-spacin" rel="nofollow">ing of everythin" rel="nofollow">ing.