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My topic is GMOs and food security in India

1) Briefly describe how you found the source you've selected, including search terms you used, any help you received from librarians, friends, or peers, the databases you searched, and how you ensured this was a credible source. If your search terms changed over time, or you looked at multiple databases, please include that information. In other words, tell me the story of finding this source from start to finish.

2) Start by providing the enthymeme you're working with for your Essay 2. Be sure to double check its format and logic. Briefly explain how the source you shared will help you to persuade your reader to accept this argument. What part of the argument will it address? What types of evidence will your pull from the source to support your claims (it might be helpful to review See attached file, important) It doesn't matter how you see this source fitting in; I'm interested in reading your thinking behind choosing this source (and it's OK if it ends up not being in your final Essay #2. That's normal in research!)

3) What parts of Essay 2's argument will this source be unable to support? In other words, what are the limits of this source's utility to your essay? Please explain your answer.

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Because Essay #1 requires you to perform a literature review on your selected food justice problem, the sources you select to summarize and synthesize in the final essay will have the strongest impact on that essay's structure. It's important, then, to think not just about what the sources say about your essay, but how they present their arguments, and how (eventually, in Essay #2) their content might be used in a more direct argument. The Different Types of Evidence Obviously, in terms of format, evidence will be presented to readers as either direct quotes or paraphrases (and later in the term, visual evidence – but not for this first essay cycle). However, to research and use your primary and secondary sources effectively in an essay, it’s important to think about the different purposes your evidence serves in order to decide how to integrate it into the essay. • Informative Data: these are numerical, statistical, historical, and scientific forms of information that support your claims. You can quote these from secondary sources, but you should try to find the original, primary source information taken from. Also, remember that numbers don’t make an argument themselves, so you can interpret data differently than a secondary source (indeed, with all types of evidence, it’s your analysis and explanation of the evidence that matters most). • Anecdotes from reliable sources: These are detailed descriptions of events or people’s activities that serve to support your claims. Take, for example, the description of Jose Aguilar (the banana farmer) and his efforts to save the banana. Koeppel describe his daily activities to use to support the claim that traditional hybridization techniques for bananas are slow, complicated, and difficult to pull off. • Verbal descriptions of people, events, or ideas: As long as these are taken from reliable and authoritative sources, these descriptions can support your claims as well. The "Food Sovereignty" essay uses excerpts from interviews and community gatherings to provide evidence for the attitudes and concerns of the citizens of the Chicago neighborhoods they write about. • Defining terms or concepts: If a reliable, influential, or otherwise authoritative source offers support for how you’re using or understanding a key term or concept from your enthymeme, that can be incorporated as evidence. • Comparable examples or situations: Many secondary sources will provide you with data or information about a comparable situation, but not the exact same context or setting as your argument. However, within reason, you can draw comparison between a source's situation and your own focus - as long as you can explain why you've done so. For example, you may be writing about consumer attitudes toward GMO labelling in the US, but you've found a good essay aboutconsumer attitudes toward GMO labelling in Euope. You can draw evidence from the different setting as long as you explain why you're comparing the two contexts, and what similarities and differences exist between them. • Claims from experts: You can often use claims from authoritative sources to support your own arguments. However, a claim isn’t factual data until it has been widely accepted by the relevant communities (like climate change being caused by human activity, or evolution’s role in creating life on earth), so you have to be careful not to treat claims as data. To use claims of other writers as support, you have to explain to the reader why they should trust the words of the person you're quoting or paraphrasing. Why should your audience accept these claims as credible? Let Your Sources Help Structure Your Essay Although perhaps overused, the metaphor that writing a research essay is like entering a conversation is helpful when thinking about how effectively use your research to support your argument. Often, after days or weeks (or months!) of research, you’ll end up with so many voices on your issue that it can be easy to lose track of why you selected a source in the first place, or how it fits into the larger context of your essay. By organizing your sources into three tiers, you can start to plan body paragraphs by focusing on what's going to be most useful for your argument based on how important the source was to your own belief in your argument's validity. This isn’t a perfect process, of course, but it can help you figure out when, where, and how to draw your reader’s attention to your research. Also keep in mind that as you go through the drafting process, sources will often change tiers – that’s OK! It just means that you’re thinking critically about your research at all stages of the writing process. I’ve provided a basic rationale for each tier below, along with an example of a source and my explanation for its ranking. Keep in mind that the field you’re writing in will affect the ranking of your sources. For example, a literary analysis (as these examples are taken from) of Walden will pay more direct attention to the content of the text itself than Thoreau’s biography or a historical account of what brought Thoreau to Walden Pond in the first place. Tier One (Most Influential Sources): These are the primary and secondary sources that have been most helpful in guiding your thinking on the issue, whether as a major source of evidence, providing a theoretical framework, or even as major counterarguments. Any sources you rank at this level shouldappear in your Essay #1, as they have the biggest impact in how you're understanding your own food justice problem. In the conversation metaphor, these are the voices you’ve listened to the most, and want to engage with directly and thoroughly in your essay. [Tip: As you research, if you’re seeing a particular author or source being cited extensively by others, it’s a sign that (a) you should seek out that source, and that (b) many readers in your field will expect that source to be integrated into your argument in significant ways] Example 1: Walden, Henry David Thoreau – My essay deals heavily with the “Higher Laws” chapter of Walden, which means I’ll be quoting extensively from it throughout the essay. Example 2: Language as Symbolic Action, Kenneth Burke. – I want to use Burke’s idea of “terministic screens,” introduced in this text, to provide a new reading of the anxieties Thoreau shares with the reader in “Higher Laws.” This is my main theoretical framework. Tier Two (Somewhat Influential Sources): These primary and secondary sources provide important context, historical or biographical background, differing perspectives that you may want to acknowledge in brief, or even a particular salient quote or piece of data. Any sources you rank at this level may or may not end up in Essay #1, and certainly shouldn't be the majority of sources present in your literature review. However, these sources aren’t the primary drivers of your argument; they add to the essay’s effectiveness, but they don’t determine the thesis or major sub-arguments. Example 1: “Kenneth Burke: Pioneer of Ecocriticism,” Laurence Coupe – Coupe lays out evidence that Burke is the one of the first North American theorists to pay careful attention to the ecological and environmental in his writing. Though not direct evidence for any of my main claims, this helps me to draw useful parallels between Burke and Thoreau. This will help justify my pairing of two writers operating in different centuries. Tier Three (Least Influential Sources): These primary, secondary, and occasionally tertiary sources don’t seem immediately relevant to your thesis or larger argument, but may offer information that could end up being useful as you draft and revise the essay. Any sources you rank at this level should likely notappear in your Essay #1, but you're saving them in case they become more directly useful in Essay #2. These are sources that you suspect may be useful, but you can’t be sure about until you have a more detailed outline or rough draft of the argument. Example 1: A Grammar of Motive, Kenneth Burke. This text was written before Burke developed and introduced terministic screens, but it his focus on the motives inherent in language choices could be useful to understand how/why Burke ultimately felt the need to develop the terministic screen concept.
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Running head: GMOS AND FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA

GMOs and Food Security in India
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GMOS AND FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
GMOs and food security in India
With the increasing population in India, food security is a topic of discussion that cannot
be ignored. The rise and spread of GMOs in the country are also alarming. My interest in
researching on this topic was driven by a video I saw on social media about poultry farming,
where the chicken being discussed matured in three weeks. Such case...


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I was struggling with this subject, and this helped me a ton!

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