Minutes October 15, 2008 by Ben

CLL 410: Writing for Environmental Professionals October 13, 2008
Taken by Benjamin A. Porush
Attendees Chris L, Megan T, Nicole, Julie, Amanda, Yumie, Daniel, Chris D, Josh, Owen B, James M.

New York Times
“Scientist at Work”. By, James Henebaker.
- People who talk about traumatic experiences are healthier then people who don’t.
- He Tallies the number of words, pronouns, adjectives verbs etc. fear can be told by this. - The words you use can be analyzed to tell fear and attitudes
Ecopsychology
- What we do that’s insane, sane, healthy, mindsets.
- General view of nature and how people view it differently.
Insane things we do
- Eat bad things, over drink, extreme skiing, checking mail on Sunday, OCD, Drugs (Pot Mushroom, Acid, Ecstasy), not wearing a seatbelt, sleeping through class.
Eco-psychology of Forest
- Trees, opportunity, nature, salamander home, clean air, scenic
- Spirit is metaphysical stuff.
- Why do we think we are the best?
- Why don’t we listen to the salamander?
Metaphysics
- Philosophical notion
- Human beings separate themselves from natural world through culture and language.
- Philo= love, logy=thinking
- Air and water.
- Wolf is 30 million years old.
- Humans 1.5 million years
- They have been thinking 28.5 million years longer than humans

“DO NO HARM!” oath of a physician

- Examine your own insanity it’s a lifetime process
- Don still does stupid things.
Abstracts
- 3 diff. kinds of abstracts, descriptive, informative, executive summaries
- (Big 2 pages, medium 1 page, small ½ page)
- Descriptive= small 100-150 words
- Informative = medium 250-300
- Executive summaries = big 1000-2000
Write a descriptive abstract for your paper.
What is it and how is it different from an informative?
Why write one-
- Forecast what is coming
- Decide if reader wants to read or not.
- Key words, used for indexes.

Homework
Look up
- Ecopsychology
- Abstract.
- Send Proposal of your project via email by Sunday, Oct 19.