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ESL400: Climate Change Spring 2025

ESL 400 Rodrigues Spring 2025 Assignment

Use this whole guide to support your research for ESL 400 with Professor Rodrigues. I'll be working with your class to support your research work on the Essay #3.

My objectives for the instruction session:

  • Student awareness of specific CSM Library resources that support the assignment
  • Demonstrate some search strategies that help with this assignment.

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*This is an excerpted and paraphrased from class assignment handout (Spring 2025).

Your writing assignment

Investigate one of the San Mateo County Community College District’s (SMCCCD) sustainability programs to suggest how they can work towards a “Story of Less” for the campus or district.

In a well-developed and clearly organized essay evaluate and suggest improvements to the one SMCCCD Sustainability Program. Your paper should answer these questions:

  • What are the program’s current strengths and weaknesses?
  • What should the program do to improve in the future?

Your researching task

Choose and read and evaluate sources to include in your paper and annotated bibliography*

  • One of your sources should be your program on the SMCCD Sustainability website
  • one could be The Story of More,
  • reliable sources from the library or elsewhere.

 

Slides from class session

Example search from class session

keywords: transportation sustainability colleges
search result in OneSearch: transportation sustainability colleges
Example of possible source for review : Magazine article :

Handout from class session