tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104678730176687014.post4836405279636279476..comments2014-12-12T18:07:42.274-05:00Comments on Seminar in Composition : Final Project Draft Plan- “Humans And The Environment"Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104678730176687014.post-85910391715652502272014-11-22T17:45:38.230-05:002014-11-22T17:45:38.230-05:00"Human behavior is shaped largely if not tota..."Human behavior is shaped largely if not totally by the environment around it" -- this is an argument so big that you could literally fill a library trying to make it. That does *not* mean that you shouldn't try to make your own little corner of it - it just means that you need to be clever and focused picking your approach.<br /><br />"My argument says very basically, humanity can only behave in certain ways in certain places. The environment plays a role in this behavior and shapes it majorly." -- this is a somewhat more focused version. If you could make it concrete (e.g., humans can only behave certain ways in freshman composition classrooms, humans can behave only certain ways in rattlesnake-infested deserts *and* we can draw general implications from that fact), then it could work.<br /><br />While I don't know anything about environmental psychology, it sounds applicable. I think the central difficulty here is breadth - so you need to make this about a particular environment or small group of environments, then to make a specific argument about that/those environment(s), with any general conclusions to be based on specific conclusions.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104678730176687014.post-49266449777285502942014-11-22T12:49:03.713-05:002014-11-22T12:49:03.713-05:00Pretty good. The nature or nurture argument is mea...Pretty good. The nature or nurture argument is meaningful (as it carries major implications for humanity, if true), and it has a clear counterargument to argue against. Then again, that's also somewhat of a problem to be addressed. There's tons of evidence and support for the counterargument, and so finding ways to counter their points should be important. Also, I suggest you look into twin studies in psychology where identical twins are raised in different environments, because they can provide a lot of evidence for (or against) your argument.Sam Lihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104709750217460939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9104678730176687014.post-32602644738642288622014-11-21T10:32:03.724-05:002014-11-21T10:32:03.724-05:00My group (and Prof. Johns) basically said that my ...My group (and Prof. Johns) basically said that my old proposal was crap, which it was, so I wrote a new one. I saw a theme of the specific environment of each novel we read affecting human behavior in certain distinct and robust ways, and this can bee supported by environmental psychology. However, there is a counterargument that humanity does what it does in any environment because of the things within itself, not the things around it. So that is my revised (totally new) proposal and argument now.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14941977692470645744noreply@blogger.com