[Student Name]
Instructions: Replace the example wording in brackets below with your wording for each prompt.
IND101 Milestone 2 Template
Topic: [Example: Climate Change]
1.
List of narrowed ideas from the freewrite activity:
· [Examples: Warmer ocean temperatures
· Melting ice caps
· Greenhouse gases
· Fossil fuels
· Disagreement about whether climate change is real
· How politicians talk about climate change
· Electric cars
· Policies to reduce cost of electric vehicles
· Wind farms
· Solar power
· The cost of alternative energy
· How the international community is addressing climate change
· Global leaders in addressing climate change
· How the US compares to other nations in addressing climate change]
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Description with at least 4 underlined key terms or short phrases:
[Example description:
Electric cars are an important step toward addressing
climate change by reducing our reliance on
gasoline. However, electric cars are still too
expensive for the average American to buy, so the government should provide
financial incentives to
car companies to reduce the price for
consumers and increase the availability of
charging stations.]
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At least 2 synonyms, abbreviations, or alternatives for each key term:
· [Examples: Electric cars: electric vehicles, plug-in, EV]
· [Climate change: global warming, temperature change, environmental change]
· [Gasoline: petroleum, fuel]
· [Expensive: pricey, costly]
· [Financial incentives: inducement, tax credit, government subsidy]
· [Car companies: car manufacturers, automobile manufacturers (also: Tesla, Chevrolet, Ford, etc.)]
· [Consumers: shopper, buyer]
· [Charging stations: recharging hub, electric recharging point]
4.
At least 5 Excelsior Library Sources
Source 1:
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Title: [Example:
How China Beat the US in Electric Vehicle Manufacturing And why it’s time for the United States to get serious about industrial policies.]
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Date: [2021]
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Author: [Graham, J. D., Belton, K. B., & Suri, X.]
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Optional: Instead of bulleted source information above, try an APA style reference list (but make sure to still include a URL or Permalink to each source):
[Examples:
Dua, R., & White, K. (2020). Understanding latent demand for hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles using large-scale longitudinal survey data of US new vehicle buyers.
Energy Efficiency,
13(6), 1063–1074.
Graham, J. D., Belton, K. B., & Suri, X. (2021). How China beat the US in electric vehicle manufacturing and why it’s time for the United States to get serious about industrial policies.
Issues in Science & Technology,
37(2), 72–79.
National Research Council (U.S.). (2015).
Overcoming barriers to deployment of plug-in electric
vehicles. National Academies Press.
Noori, M., & Tatari, O. (2016). Development of an agent-based model for regional market penetration projections of electric vehicles in the United States.
Energy,
96, 215–230.
Sperling, D. (2018). Electric vehicles: Approaching the tipping point.
Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists,
74(1), 11–18.
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