Nick Paschall
Sabatino Mangini
English Comp 1
4/16/2015
I-Search Paper Proposal:
For my last assignment in my English Composition class I am typing an I-Search Paper. The assignment requires us to choose a controversial or debatable topic, research the topic, pick a side, and ponder it. I have decided to do my I-Search paper about GMO’s. More specifically I will discuss the issues that surround GMO’s such as negative health effects and the public awareness like labeling GMO products. I did not have too much previous knowledge on the topic other than a little bit of information I had read online. Once I started to dig deeper into the topic I realized that it was something that I felt passionate about. The other interesting thing about my topic was all the different angles I could attack it at.
Initially my question was one of consumer advocacy, but as I kept digging deeper my research question and opinion on the topic began to change to one of a bigger scale. The issues surrounding GMO’s are so much deeper than the surface level issues that most people want to talk about. So I was left with a few questions: Why are the American people not allowed to know when GMO’s are in their food? Why do the heads of GMO companies have so much influence in the FDA and other government programs? And why is it that third-party companies are not allowed to run tests on the health effect issues of GMO’s?
Nick Paschall
Sabatino Mangini
English Comp 1
4/20/2015
I-Search Paper Process:
I started my research with a simple google search to find out about GMO’s and what they were all about. The first thing I immediately noticed was how many results were about avoiding GMO’s and five reasons why you should say no to GMO’s. Once I realized the immense amount of controversy surrounding GMO’s it made ask myself why? So I decided to go to Redddit.com and search the front page for “GMO’s” and the first hit I received was about Monsanto. This was the point when my heavy researching began. One article lead to another article and it went on and on until I was left with a massive amount of facts. I knew in the back of my head I still needed to find a more reliable source, so I began to search for scientific studies that had been done.
Once I gathered all my sources and information I realized that I had clearly picked side on the ongoing controversy about GMO’s. It genuinely made my angry, which was weird at first, but I decided to just start to through all my feeling and opinions on the paper. After about 30 minutes of typing on a Microsoft Word document I was left with a paper that resembled a grumpy old man bitching about what’s wrong with the world. I began to strip away at the things I did not need and I also started to support my opinions with all the facts that I had gathered from my sources. After about another hour of typing I was starting to feel a little more confident about my paper which no longer looked like an 80 year old man’s rant. I decided to take a break from the paper to get some fresh air, so I took my dog for a walk around the block and drank some cold ice water. Slowly but surely I added more details and more facts about Monsanto (which by the way gets automatically capitalized when I type it in Microsoft word. I am not sure why that bothers me so much, but it does. I really don’t like that company at all.) Once I had enough supporting details I sent my paper to my girlfriend, Steph, and my sister, Emily. Once they had sent their feedback to me I made a few more surface level corrections like run on sentences. The paper had really typed itself once I felt passionate enough about it. I am definitely going to make some more changes and corrections once my professor takes a look at it.
Sabatino Mangini
English Comp 1
4/16/2015
I-Search Paper Proposal:
For my last assignment in my English Composition class I am typing an I-Search Paper. The assignment requires us to choose a controversial or debatable topic, research the topic, pick a side, and ponder it. I have decided to do my I-Search paper about GMO’s. More specifically I will discuss the issues that surround GMO’s such as negative health effects and the public awareness like labeling GMO products. I did not have too much previous knowledge on the topic other than a little bit of information I had read online. Once I started to dig deeper into the topic I realized that it was something that I felt passionate about. The other interesting thing about my topic was all the different angles I could attack it at.
Initially my question was one of consumer advocacy, but as I kept digging deeper my research question and opinion on the topic began to change to one of a bigger scale. The issues surrounding GMO’s are so much deeper than the surface level issues that most people want to talk about. So I was left with a few questions: Why are the American people not allowed to know when GMO’s are in their food? Why do the heads of GMO companies have so much influence in the FDA and other government programs? And why is it that third-party companies are not allowed to run tests on the health effect issues of GMO’s?
Nick Paschall
Sabatino Mangini
English Comp 1
4/20/2015
I-Search Paper Process:
I started my research with a simple google search to find out about GMO’s and what they were all about. The first thing I immediately noticed was how many results were about avoiding GMO’s and five reasons why you should say no to GMO’s. Once I realized the immense amount of controversy surrounding GMO’s it made ask myself why? So I decided to go to Redddit.com and search the front page for “GMO’s” and the first hit I received was about Monsanto. This was the point when my heavy researching began. One article lead to another article and it went on and on until I was left with a massive amount of facts. I knew in the back of my head I still needed to find a more reliable source, so I began to search for scientific studies that had been done.
Once I gathered all my sources and information I realized that I had clearly picked side on the ongoing controversy about GMO’s. It genuinely made my angry, which was weird at first, but I decided to just start to through all my feeling and opinions on the paper. After about 30 minutes of typing on a Microsoft Word document I was left with a paper that resembled a grumpy old man bitching about what’s wrong with the world. I began to strip away at the things I did not need and I also started to support my opinions with all the facts that I had gathered from my sources. After about another hour of typing I was starting to feel a little more confident about my paper which no longer looked like an 80 year old man’s rant. I decided to take a break from the paper to get some fresh air, so I took my dog for a walk around the block and drank some cold ice water. Slowly but surely I added more details and more facts about Monsanto (which by the way gets automatically capitalized when I type it in Microsoft word. I am not sure why that bothers me so much, but it does. I really don’t like that company at all.) Once I had enough supporting details I sent my paper to my girlfriend, Steph, and my sister, Emily. Once they had sent their feedback to me I made a few more surface level corrections like run on sentences. The paper had really typed itself once I felt passionate enough about it. I am definitely going to make some more changes and corrections once my professor takes a look at it.