CUC100: Sustainability- Personal Lifestyle Choices in Modern Urban Settings- Persuasive Essay Writing Assignment

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Persuasive Essay Writing Assignment:

Task: This assessment represents the final product which brings together all your brainstorming, thinking, planning, learning, researching, notetaking and summarising into a clearly organised, referenced discussion essay. So, it is a chance to put into practice what you have learned about writing academic essays and bring it together with all you have learned in the unit about sustainability. The skills you learn through writing this essay you will continue to apply throughout your study and the knowledge about sustainability will be  relevant to your daily lives and in the professions you are studying for. For your final assessment you need to write a 1500-2000 word essay on the following: ‘Sustainability is a paradigm for thinking about the future in which environmental, societal and economic considerations are balanced in the pursuit of an improved quality of life’ (UNESCO 2015). 1. Choose a scenario from the list below and scope it to a specific location, community, organisation or aspect. 2. Explain the key sustainability concerns from an environmental, social and economic point of view. 3. Discuss responses to these concerns that could help to achieve sustainability. Scenarios 1. Food production 2. The health and livelihoods of groups of people seeking asylum 3. Personal lifestyle choices in modern urban settings 4. Resource usage in a professional organisation (e.g. hospital, school, law firm, etc.) 5. Tourism You should start your essay by first providing the background to the scenario and the stakeholders involved; and a definition of sustainability that is applicable to your scenario and reflects your potential solutions.