Requirements, Criteria and Questions

Five Requirements for the final paper:

1. 1.       3,000 plus words in length
2. 2.       Convincingly argue your thesis
3. 3.       Must be your own work
4. 4.       Correct grammar, punctuation, and MLA style
5. 5.       Refer to 10 or more credible sources

Five Criteria for success on your final paper:

1.       The type of document (genre)

2.       Project due date

3.       Any intermediate reports or activities due before you turn in the final project.

4.       The number and type of sources you can use

5.       Employ parenthetical citations, A Works Cited page, and signal phrases.

Three Topics (pages 50-51) Five research questions:

Questions/ Topics	Information: what is known?	History: What has occurred in the past?	Assumptions: What conclusions are already made?	Goals: What should happen?	Outcomes: So far/what’s next?
G.M.O. and Labeling	-What is known about G.M.O. vegetables? -Does the G.M.O. products fed to animals affect them the same way? -Why is there an issue in getting companies to label these products? -What have other countries done on the subject?	-How have the organic plants been affected since G.M.O plants were introduced?	-The pros and cons coming from health advisers seems to differ.	-Labeling should not be an issue. G.M.O. free products are already labeled.	-Many groups and farmers protest to promote the requirement of labeling.
Religion Issues: in school, government and business	-What seems to be the biggest issue with most people? -What are private schools teaching? -Why is religion needed in public tax payers’ locations?	-What is the history of religion in these places and the impact they have had?	-How have other countries determined religions necessity?	-Very controversial question. I think that if one religion is taught in school they all should be.	-What is the percentage of children in private schools and what are they learning vs. Public school? -What has religion done for government and business in the past?
Homeless issues in Cities vs. Small Towns	-What is the percentage difference in population sizes? -What resources are giving to each community and how do they differ?	-How have the homeless been treated in the past in comparison to today?	-Social experiments on you tube.	-Should communities be required to be responsible for the homeless?