LAb 6 the ozone brief activity

-Lab-The Ozone Brief

Lab-The Ozone Brief
It is 2021 and you have landed a job as the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy advising the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. You are the chief scientific advisor to President Biden.
The President asks you this question:Does the ozone hole cause global warming?
You have to prepare a short briefing paper for the President.
Your Task.
●Please find two reliable sources that you would feel comfortable using for this briefing paper.
●Please find two unreliable sources that would not be appropriate to use for such a paper/report.
Report these sources, cite them within your brief and make sure to have them at the end of your lab as references and cited in APA Format.
Use the work you’ve already done in your discussion to support this lab.
Considerations.
●Can you be biased, yet reliable?
●Agenda vs transparency.
●Reputation of the source.
●Accountability of the source.
●Money: who’s paying for this?
●Are (all) ads bad?
● Make this a Professional presentation.
Really try to put yourself in the shoes of someone presenting to the President.
This presentational brief you prepare for the President must include Figures. Afterall, visuals are a vital factor in any presentation!
Use Figures As Evidence To Support Your Arguments.
What are Figures?
1.Photographs, cartoons, etc.
2.Graphs or charts (pie charts, line graphs, etc.).
3.Schematic diagrams, flow charts, drawings, maps, etc.
⇒ Information conveyed graphically to support and/or illustrate the writing.
Figures need to be useful, not just wasted space.
A famous physics professor once told me:
When you write a paper, first find your figures. Then, organize your paper around those.
●Include relevant figures and use them as evidence to support or illustrate your arguments.
●Do not include figures that just ‘look cool’ but otherwise add nothing to support your writing.
Reference / cite your figures in the text to connect them to the text.
For example:
Every time you use an image, map, chart, graph, infographic or other figure to support your presentation, you also must identify it underneath as a Figure. See image below.

Parts of a Figure.
1.The figure itself.
2.The figure number.
3.The figure caption.
4.The figure source.
5.The figures are referenced sequentially at appropriate places in the text so that the figure is connected and can support and/or illustrate the arguments presented in the text.or For example, if your brief has 4 Figures, name the first image, Figure 1 and then insert the caption and make sure to reference it!

All along in this process, please make sure to let me know how I can help!
So, let’s review!
Your brief to the President must include:
1) Background Research.
Try to answer these two questions.
1.Does the ozone hole cause global warming?
2.Does global warming cause the ozone hole?
2) Figures.
Find three or more figures that you may use in the briefing. Copy/paste them into your document. Make sure to also copy/paste the website link (= the figure source).
3) Annotated Bibliography.
Find three or more reliable sources and include them already in your annotated bibliography with a proper APA citation and a proper annotation.

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