As part of a business writing class, I wrote a mock whitepaper on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill:     WhitePaper1_Business_Final2

  Click on the above video to watch my short presentation on this experimental forestry project at the University of Idaho in 2022.

Originally published on Medium here: Invest In Your Home   Invest in Your Home   Nature is coming back to your home in the city. Environmental restoration is being hotly debated, voted upon, and financed in major metropolitan areas across the globe, with...

A Sense of Old Farm Place   On a whim one day, passing through the region, I pulled up to my childhood home. My parents had moved away over a decade ago, and I wanted to see what it was like...

AS WE BURN   On a day in mid September Overcast like dark December I find myself unwilling member To latent ever-burning embers, Amidst the calls of songbirds tender,   Smothering the sky above. Boughed on oak, there flits a dove, A glinting greydrawn whisper of This hazy, foggy, misty...

Author: JD Fernandez (Winters) Original Assignment: English 207 – Opinion-Editorial Arguments - Persuasive Writing - Aaron Schab – University of Idaho Spring 2023 Pro: Defund the Police   What does Defund the Police really mean?   Many have called to “Defund the Police.” But what...

Author: JD Fernandez (Winters) Original Assignment: Open Rogerian Letter Argument - English 207 – Persuasive Writing - Aaron Schab – University of Idaho Spring 2023   Dear Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick,   As a concerned citizen, I write to you today about the issue of...

Author: JD Fernandez (Winters) Original Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis Argument - English 207 – Persuasive Writing - Aaron Schab – University of Idaho Spring 2023   Introduction: Defund the Police? “Defund the Police” has been plastered to protest signs, internet forums, and news headlines...

Author: JD Fernandez (Winters) Original Assignment: English 207 – Persuasive Writing - Aaron Schab – University of Idaho Spring 2023   Introduction   It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone, over the course of their lives, forms some sort of worldview, which is...