Hunter Brown's Rhetoric Blog

Introduction Hook- For twelve millennia, humans have crossed-breed the best of two crops or animals in the hopes of spawning a better version of the two.   It is how we get a diversity of crops and livestock such as bok choi, banana, corn, domesticated horses, and cows.   Today we have accelerated and expanded upon artificial selection to the point where we can add traits form one organism to another directly Question- Are GMO foods safe to eat, nutritional, and easy to grow for consumers? Thesis- GMO foods when eaten are safe and nutritious, but we should be cautious of the pollen that can spread from the crops and unintentionally hurt plants and animals. Body 1: Many of the experts in the articles say that GMOs, when eaten by humans, are completely safe (Freedman, 2013; Williams, 2018; Verma, 2011; de Santis 2018).   Some articles do cite the risks of altering an area of a crop’s DNA and producing unintentional results (Ludwig, 2018). 2: GMO farming ...

Grid of Common points: Safety for human consumption, Nutrition, Animal tests, Economy, Farming World Health Organization Safety for human consumption p. 22 Food allergies or hypersensitivities are adverse reactions to foods triggered by the immune system. Within the different types of reactions involved, non-immunological intolerances to food and reactions involving components of the immune system need to be differentiated. The former may invoke reactions such as bloating or other unpleasant reactions, but are thought not to involve the immune system and called ‘food intolerances’. Ludwig, K. A. 2018 Safety for human Consumption p. 23 However, Roundup contains more than just glyphosate, it also has adjuvants, surfactants, and unidentified chemicals. Surfactants aid in breaking through the outer membrane of cells to allow the other chemicals to infiltrate the cell body. Adjuvants improve herbicide activity in the formulation and serve as cell penetrants. Although these f...

A.  World health Organization. 2005. Modern food biotechnology, human health and development: an evidence-based study. i.) The objectives of this paper were to inform the reader what GMOs are and how they influence our crops and livestock in a positive and negative way. They evaluated how the dangers of GMOs can affect humans and how it should be regulated. ii.) The main results and conclusions were that the R&D of livestock GMOs are in early testing and the risks of GMOs harming humans are low and regulatory practices as of now should be left alone. WHO should pursue to educate people about GMOs. iii.) The research method used in this paper was the evaluation of the current state of GMOs and assessed future predicaments of GMO usage. iv.) The paper is relevant to my topic because it shows potential hazards of GMOs being shipped and consumed around the world. It heavily relies on other papers' data and interprets how helpful and harmful GMOs are to the people. B....

Do GMOs have an adverse effect on human health and the ecosystem? As the world food market gains traction worldwide, each country is looking for ways to increase the production of their crop and make it better for the consumer. With advances in the bio sciences, some crops are being considered as genetically modified organisms (GMO). GMOs improve the quality of the product by splicing the genetic information of a specific organism with the crop itself. This is done to improve taste, nutrition, and defense against pests. Some people believe that introducing new information to a species's genome might accidentally create negative results that will harm people consuming the crop. This topic is important because the US government does not have regulation to label GMO food product. If GMOs have a measurable negative effect on humans, then consumers are put at risk of not knowing what they are putting in their bodies. In addition, there is a vested interest in improving the quality of...

Writing Analysis: Scientific Writing in the Biological Sciences Introduction             Biology is the natural science that studies life, how other organisms interact with each other, how organisms are structured, functions, and behave.  Modern biology has become an eclectic field, from animal behavior and mechanosensation to genetics and biochemistry, there are plenty of things to write about as a researcher.  Specifically, I will be focusing on my field of interest: research genetics.  Twelve years after the Human Genome Project, researchers are hard at work discovering and documenting how the nucleic bases that code who we are affects our physic, mental pathways, even down to whether we like cilantro on our burritos or not.  I have interviewed Dr.  Kevin Christie, Post-doctoral at the Eberl Fly Lab and Assistant in Instructing at the University of Iowa, to discuss h...

Psychology Strengths: Interviews had good information Aside from lack of headings, the paper was organized Weaknesses: Too many quotations when they could have paraphrased Did not introduce a source, thrown it in the middle of paper Formatting: no headers, title page, lacking punctuation. Grade: D- Economics Strengths: Proper formatting Proper in-text citations Great job comparing academic and non-academic Well organized Weaknesses: Lists were wordy and had a lot of and's Did not mention an interview Lacking sub-headings to divide major headings Grade: B+ Engineering Strengths: Great use of examples, analyzed them well Compared non-academic and academic papers in same heading Good length, plenty of references Weaknesses: (Sinha, Bullock, Hendrickson, Levinson, Lyles, Radwan, Li, 2002) should be (Sinha, et al. 2002) Grade: A- Business Strengths: Best formatting: Major headers, sub-headers Very good use of examples, they explained the use of th...

My interview took place at the Eberl Lab, Biology Building with Dr. Kevin Christie, an Assistant in Instruction for the Department of Biology and has written four published papers in the span of eight years. We discussed about his writing habits, who he writes to, what he has learned about writing in the Biology field, and how his profession writes research papers that can be published. What distinguishes scientific writing from the humanities is the impersonal, informational tone that homogenizes even the most artistic writer. Scientists who's career depends on writing about new findings and facts about how the world works focus solely on talking about the findings and data rather than the art of writing itself. Of course, it is important to have a flow of writing that makes sense to an informed reader in that field. This is why Kevin combines sentences to have as much utility out of his words and maintain a consistent flow of technical terms. Peer reviews are a necessity and what...