Queens Water Quality Essay: Obtaining & Analyzing Reports.

Essay on Water Quality in Queens, New York

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Write a 750-word essay about water quality in your community that addresses the following points:

Obtain a water quality report from your local municipality (QUEENS- NEW YORK) within the last two years and discuss what you found in the report?

Identify a water quality issue happening in your community and where the pollution comes from?

This includes point sources (for example, water discharge from a factory; contamination from a Superfund site), Non-point sources (for example, agricultural runoff), and Natural sources. Describe how the pollution source is impacting the environment and human health in your community, and provide two examples of each. Identify three management practices to minimize water pollution. Remember to support your data and information with appropriate citations. A minimum of five peer-reviewed references must be included.

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Obtain a water quality report from your local municipality within the last two years and discuss what you found in the report.	15.0%	Essay does not obtain water quality report and does not discuss what was found.	Essay discusses items found in the water quality report, but is incomplete or missing relevant information.	Essay discusses items found in the water quality report; content is accurate and meets the basic criteria of the assignment.	Essay discusses items found in the water quality report; content is accurate, detailed, and utilizes at least one references.	Essay discusses items found in the water quality report; content is accurate, detailed, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.

Identify a water quality issue happening in your community and where the pollution comes from.	15.0%	Essay does not identify water quality issue and pollution source.	Essay identifies water quality issue in regards to pollution source, but is incomplete or missing relevant information.	Essay identifies water quality issue in regards to pollution source; content is accurate and meets the basic criteria of the assignment.	Essay identifies water quality issue in regards to pollution source; content is accurate, detailed, and utilizes at least one references.	Essay identifies a water quality issue in regards to pollution source; content is accurate, detailed, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.

Describe how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health.	15.0%	Essay does not describes how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health.	Essay describes how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health, but is incomplete or missing relevant information.	Essay describes how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health; content is accurate, provides one example of each, and meets the basic criteria of the assignment.	Essay describes how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health; content is accurate, provides two examples of each, and utilizes at least one references.	Essay describes how pollution source is impacting the environment and human health; content is accurate, provides two examples of each, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.

Identify three management practices to minimize water pollution.	15.0%	Essay does not identify three management practices to minimize water pollution.	Essay identifies one management practices to minimize water pollution, but does not provide three examples.	Essay identifies two management practices to minimize water pollution; content is accurate and meets the basic criteria of the assignment.	Essay identifies three management practices to minimize water pollution; content is accurate, detailed, and utilizes at least two references.	Essay identifies three management practices to minimize water pollution; content is accurate, detailed, utilizes two or more references, and reflects critical thinking or a global view.

Sources	10.0%	No outside academic sources were used to support major points.	Few relevant sources beyond assigned readings were used to support major points. Important relevant sources were neglected. Sources were overused.	Sources were adequate, relevant, and extend beyond assigned readings. Sources support major points and writer's idea development.	Sources are academic, current and/or relevant to support major points. Sources effectively and consistently support the major points and writer's idea development.	Sources are academic, comprehensive, current, and/or relevant. Sources expertly support, extend, and inform ideas but do not substitute for the writer's own idea development. Sources are well synthesized to support major points.

Thesis Development and Purpose	7.0%	Paper lacks any discernible overall purpose or organizing claim.	Thesis and/or main claim are insufficiently developed and/or vague; purpose is not clear.	Thesis and/or main claim are apparent and appropriate to purpose.	Thesis and/or main claim are clear and forecast the development of the paper. It is descriptive and reflective of the arguments and appropriate to the purpose.	Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive; contained within the thesis is the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.

Argument Logic and Construction	8.0%	Statement of purpose is not justified by the conclusion. The conclusion does not support the claim made. Argument is incoherent.	Sufficient justification of claims is lacking. Argument lacks consistent unity. There are obvious flaws in the logic.	Argument is orderly, but may have a few inconsistencies. The argument presents minimal justification of claims. Argument logically, but not thoroughly, supports the purpose. Sources used are credible. Introduction and conclusion bracket the thesis.	Argument shows logical progression. Techniques of argumentation are evident. There is a smooth progression of claims from introduction to conclusion.	Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner.