L3b - Introduction II

Activate Learning

Please read the 2nd paragraph of the Introduction article and comment on what are the characteristics.

There should be about 1 characteristics that you and your team mates can identify easily.

Promote thinking and discussion

2. Introduce the specific topic of your research and explain why it is important.

As you can see from the above examples, the authors are moving toward presenting the specific topic of their research. So now in the following part, you can bring in some statistics to show the importance of the topic or the seriousness of the problem.

Dragonflies have excellent potential as indicators of habitat integrity (Samways, 2008). For this study, the aim is to use bio- and chemical indicators were believed to have potential in assessments of freshwater habitat quality and health.

Another way to emphasise the importance of the research topic is to highlight the possible benefits from solving the problem or from finding an answer to the question: possible savings, greater production, longer-lasting devices, and so on. This approach emphasises the positive.

These indicators are low-cost, easy-to-use and are already used for measuring habitat heath and recovery (Samways, 2008). They have great potential for environmental assessment, when used complementarily with other indicators. This study adopts a theory-based perspective as against a taxonomy-based approach, where enquiry is the prevailing thread for reasoning as opposed to creating a list of odonates. In this research, the merits of odonates as a subject for ecological assessment will be weighed in light of their possible limitations.

Get into your project groups and discuss how your 2nd paragraph should look like.

Facilitate Demonstration of Learning

After your discussion, pen down the 2nd paragraph in the google documents.

Monitor and provide feedback

Your teacher will provide you with the feedback of 2nd paragraph the INTRODUCTION section after you have submitted your proposals for review.