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Research-Driven Critique Essay Assignments You Will Have Two Separate Submissions of Your Essay in This Unit You have to do it in Microsoft Word, Two Assignments One is draft version with Track Changes and One is the Final Essay that is Separate. It should be in 1200 Words. 1) A "Track Changes" draft version of your essay in Word. 2) A final version of your essay in Word. Steps for Working in Word's "Track Changes" feature STEP 1: Copy the draft of your essay into a new Word doc named "Draft Essay." STEP 2: Turn on "Track Changes." STEP 3: Revise, edit, and proofread your essay. Check that the edits are visible. You may need to click “Review” and change to "Final: Show Markup" in the "Tracking" pane. STEP 4: Submit this “Track Changes” draft version of the essay to the Research Essay Revised Folder. STEP 5: After submitting the draft version, prepare the final version of your essay. · In the "Changes" pane, click the dropdown under "Accept" and click "Accept all Changes in Document." · Make a final check of the essay and format the essay in APA style. The Critique Introduction · Hook: Compel the reader’s attention with a “hook” at the very opening. · Background: Orient the reader, telling them what you’re writing about and why, providing any necessary background information and establishing the tone of the writing. · Credibility: Create a strong first impression and establish your credibility as a writer (you sound like you know what you’re talking about: we can trust you). · Roadmap/Methodology: Provide a sense of what to expect in the essay, and how the thesis will be developed. · Thesis: State your thesis. The Critique Conclusion Common features of the conclusion include the following: · Restatement: Restate the thesis in new words. Restate the main points in new words. · Questions: Raise limitations to the critique essay, or new questions that it provokes. · Implications: Suggest some of the implications of the critique. · Closure: Provide a sense of resolution and finality, paying close attention to the final lines. Using Qutations Quotations are meant to support your point, not make it for you. Introduce the idea shown by the quotation before giving the quotation. Here are two tips on using quotations: 1. Be selective: Only quote the most important points. You don’t need everything. 2. Frame every quotation: present the quotation within the context of your essay. · Introduce the quotation (identify the author, source, or idea before giving the quotation) · Comment on the quotation. Explain what it means to you and why it is significant. The Research-Driven Critique Essay should be formatted in APA style. ARTICLE Globalization: The good, bad and ugly According to Wikipedia "Globalization ... is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide ... This increase in global interactions has caused a growth in international trade and the exchange of ideas, beliefs, and culture." To say globalization is complex is an understatement. Economic globalization seems like a good idea from some perspectives, a greater variety and volume of goods and services, the exchange of information, and global co-operation, but a disastrous one from others, particularly when it comes to the environment and climate change. So who does globalization really benefit? Free trade agreements and the elimination of tariff barriers have allowed a largely interrupted flow of goods, services and labour. Economically, this interdependence has meant the creation of a supply chain which, in theory, works well, until it's fragile nature is exposed by political/ideological conflicts, pandemics or climate change disasters. One broken link disrupts the entire chain as we discovered when COVID-19 threw a wrench into the machinery of globalization, disrupting travel, employment and the food chain, and creating shortages of every kind, some critical such as health-care equipment and supplies. The supply of vital parts, such as computer chips for car manufacturers for instance, was interrupted. To stay competitive and maximize their profits, multinational corporations chase the cheapest labour, which has meant China and Asia, shifting production of goods from developed countries to less developed ones. This has lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty but who are, nonetheless, still impoverished. The downside has meant that these workers were often left unprotected by weak or non-existent labour and health and safety laws and at the mercy of corrupt and negligent business owners and politicians. The use of child and forced labour, a form of slavery, is an even uglier aspect of this shift. In many developing countries multinationals have a competitive advantage over local markets, forcing them out of business. As the standard of living in these countries rises so do wages, and the multinationals then chase cheaper labour elsewhere. Globalization has allowed millions of middle-class people with access to cheap airfares and package holidays to travel the world, adding to greenhouse gas levels. Tourism brings billions of dollars into these economies but European cities and other popular destinations, overwhelmed by tourism, have begun to push back. Although economic globalization may make good business sense, from an environmental standpoint it is disastrous, as the cost to the environment is not factored into the cost of these goods and services. Shipping raw materials from one side of the world to the other to produce semi-finished goods which are then shipped back to produce finished goods is madness. The fast fashion industry once had a turnaround of four times a year in keeping with the seasons. Now it is two weeks as feckless consumers demand ultra-fast fashion. The energy required to do this and the pollution created is enormous. There seems to be a pattern here. As the demand for even more goods and services grows, the world's economy becomes more integrated and interdependent, and with corporations seeking even greater profits, globalization has created a vicious cycle of increasing production to meet increasing demand resulting in more pollution, more waste, more greenhouse gases and more intense climate events. This is not a sustainable model. It appears that the winners in this global game, in the short term, are multinationals and consumers. In the end it's our environment and all of us who lose. Wayne Poole is a writer living in Dundas. CAPTION: CREDIT: Wayne Poole;