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Explore conflicts and interactions among different UN goals, like food security vs. environment protection, and civilization vs. climate stability. Address obstacles and improvements to achieve a comprehensive argument. Identify weaknesses and refine the argument for clarity and coherence.
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One (unfinished) essay: a case history Obstacles and improvements
Research identifying conflicts between different UN sustainable development goals
More research on one obvious conflict: more food and better environment
An unavoidable conflict between more civilisation and stable climate?
My aim: bring these three threads together into one argument
Recognition of Obstacle I: My initial vision was impossible The scope was way too large Solution: start over!!
First Edit
less ink = getting somewhere Fourth Edit
Some problems: - Lacks detail (of course) - Sloppy and wastes words (of course) - Disorganised: not one idea per paragraph (of course) BUT THERE ARE WORSE PROBLEMS!!!
Fifth Draft Takes too long to state main point
Recognition of Obstacle II: First three paragraphs need reducing to two Solution: Re-organize and strip out unnecessary material
Fifth Draft WHAT'S WRONG??
Fifth Draft Obstacle 1: example of progress
First sentence of second paragraph belongs in the first paragraph: It's on the topic of good progress on the SDGs
Fifth Draft Example of “obvious” conflicts not necessary here
The fact that there are “obvious” conflicts steers me away from getting to the main point: that this research is showing how to avoid the worst conflicts “obvious conflicts” needs to be background material coming after making the main point
Sixth Draft Better – but second paragraph wastes many words and needs shortening
Many words can be eliminated by making a more direct statement (a discovery!)
Many words can be eliminated by making a more direct statement (a discovery!)
Using better words – “regress” rather than “moving away”, and mentioning the new study, which I had removed in earlier edit.
Current Draft Discovery: “obvious” conflicts come later
Current Draft Poor topic sentence: I still have a problem!!!!!
More problems too!! I still have weak spots in the argument!!!!!