I think the title of this post is a little misleading, but I like it so I'm not going to change it. I'll make no secret that I am developing an essay based upon this blog since this blog serves the dual purpose of acting as an assignment for school (part of which is sharing my thought process on creating my essay). I am long overdue for this activity, but my thought process has been muddled with other worldly duties.
I don't have a strong thesis yet, which is a problem, but a large part of this is that I don't want to suggest a thesis when I'm not sure how I want to state my argument. I'm personally inclined to suggest something along the lines of the benefits of nature in urban environments. After making some inquiries and doing some light research into the subject, it looks like this concept is called environmental psychology and it's a fairly new and moderately obscure realm of thinking.
Environmental psychology may increase pro-environmental behavior. Architecture designed with environmental psychology in mind maybe more appealing to humans for primal evolutionary reasons. I won't make any positive assertions to these without more assertive research.
Based upon what I've seen in Olympia and in Tacoma, I think there is something worth arguing here. This weekend will be focused on, among other things, nailing down the nitty-gritty details of what I want from this essay and starting to layout a rough draft.
I don't have a strong thesis yet, which is a problem, but a large part of this is that I don't want to suggest a thesis when I'm not sure how I want to state my argument. I'm personally inclined to suggest something along the lines of the benefits of nature in urban environments. After making some inquiries and doing some light research into the subject, it looks like this concept is called environmental psychology and it's a fairly new and moderately obscure realm of thinking.
Environmental psychology may increase pro-environmental behavior. Architecture designed with environmental psychology in mind maybe more appealing to humans for primal evolutionary reasons. I won't make any positive assertions to these without more assertive research.
Based upon what I've seen in Olympia and in Tacoma, I think there is something worth arguing here. This weekend will be focused on, among other things, nailing down the nitty-gritty details of what I want from this essay and starting to layout a rough draft.
I hope you have figured out what your thesis has been about, one thing that I've learned is to write about something that you care about. As far as environmental psychology you might have wnanted o talk to some of the professors here on campus to get some information on how we're benefitting our own enviroment on campus. Prof. Artime is a psychology professor here on campus and I believe she might be of assistance with some concepts or may help you to point out worthwhile resources.
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