Outline of academic writing

Dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico

Goal of the paper is discuss about how dead zones affect the Gulf of Mexico. How large is this problem? What changes have taken place and what can we do about it? To achieve that goal I will search a lot of information about that from science articles and environments journals. I will use internet mostly, because there are fairly good and a number of articles about that. Of course I give my opinion to that probleem and discuss about what other people think about that problem and analyse their arguments.

Introduction

I explain why I toke that topic and why it is so important to discuss about or does it unimportant thing. What is my goal and where I want to reach for. I will say why I toke the Gulf of Mexico for example to talk about.

Body

I What mean dead zone?

I talk about what these words mean and where are dead zones most of all.

II How does dead zones affect the Gulf of Mexico?

In here I discuss what happening with environment. What are the effects and are they constant ? In this section I give some people opinions about that, who know that department of knowledge fairly well. I try to argue about their opinions and analyse them.

III How to avoid that problem in the Gulf of Mexico?

In this section I talk about how to avoid that problem like dead zones. What can we do about it? How can we correct or compensate this problem or can not we do anything? Is this problem like this huge that we must worry about it ?

Conclusion

In this paragraph I make conclusion about my story. Discuss what I found out about dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and how it affect environment. What kind of opinions I found out about dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and what people think about that how to avoid that problem and do I agree with them. I give my point of view about that.

List of References

• Bruckner, M. „The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone.” In Microbial Life – Educational Resources. Available at http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzone/. Last accessed in March, 2011.
• „150 ´dead zones´ counted in oceans.” In The Msnbc Digital Network. Available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4624359. Last accessed in March, 2011.
• „Spreading Dead Zones and Consequenses for Marine Ecosystems.” In Journal of Science. ed. Diaz R.J and R.Rosenberg. Available at http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/named/msbasin/upload/2008_08_11_msbasin_diaz_data.pdf. Last accessed in March, 2011.
• „Oceans ´Dead zones´ on the Rise.” In New York Times. ed. Venkataraman, B. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/science/earth/15oceans.html?scp=1&sq=dead%20zones%20mexico&st=cse. Last accessed in March, 2011.