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Topic: Deforestation

General Purpose: To inform

Specific Purpose: Explain to my audience the effects of deforestation

Thesis: Forests provide the earth with a regulated climate, strong biodiversity, and good nutrient rich soil for plants to strive on.

I. Introduction

a. Attention Getter: Without the help of trees, we as humans would not exist.

b. Thesis: Forests provide the earth with a regulated climate, strong biodiversity, and good nutrient rich soil for plants to strive on.

c. Reason to Listen: You as the audience should listen and understand why our planet is becoming hotter and hotter, losing specialized species, and in-turn why plants are no longer able to survive for as long as they were able to before.

d. Credibility Statement: Over the last few weeks I have be researching my topic of deforestation. Also during high school I took a class which covered deforestation and the environment.

(Transition) Deforest station effects everyone around the world.

II. Body

a. General Information: First off, deforestation is the clearing of forests or areas with trees to be converted into something else after. There are a few different ways forests are cleared. Clear cutting is simply removing everything in sight. Patch cutting is the removal of trees in specified patches. Strip cutting is removing trees in selected strips. The most environmentally friendly method is known as selective cutting. This is the removal of only selected trees, leaving the others un-harmed. The technique used most during deforestation is the slash and burn technique. This uses the basic cutting method of clear cutting, but afterwards everything that remains is burned to ash.

b. First main point: Deforestation is caused by humans clear...

... middle of paper ...

... present gains are better than the long term negative effects.

b. Restate thesis: In reality forests are better left alone, forests provide the earth with a regulated climate, strong biodiversity, and good nutrient rich soil for plants to strive on.

c. Clincher: How much longer do you want humans to exist?

References

"Deforestation." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2014. .

Lindsey, Rebecca. "Tropical Deforestation : Feature Articles." Tropical Deforestation : Feature Articles. NASA, 30 Mar. 2007. Web. 01 Mar. 2014. .

Szalay, Jessie. "Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects." LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 06 Mar. 2013. Web. 01 Mar. 2014. .

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