paper 2

Explore a topic from unit 2 in a paper intended for an educated but non-specialist audience. You might think of this assignment as the first step in writing a full research paper, but instead of writing the actual paper, you’ll be going through the initial phases (conducting library research and analyzing/organizing your sources).

The first step is to define your topic, write several research questions, and conduct library research to understand what others have said about these questions. In this research, you will also identify evidence you could use to take a position on your topic or identify gaps in the published literature that you or someone else should fill. As you read through your sources, analyze them much like we did in Paper 1 (audience, purpose, genre, and context) and keep track of where your sources are similar and where they are different. When you find sources that speak to one another through citation, wonderful, and these articles may be especially useful to you in understanding the topic and the wider context in which it exists.

Keep in mind that you will need to search for sources multiple times, not just once, because good research is a process in which sources often lead you to new research questions or a series of new sources. There is no limit to the number of research questions you can pursue, though you should be careful not to expand your topic too much. You will likely find that there are at least two categories of sources: sources that make new or innovative arguments about your topic, and sources that fill in the context or review the background that might be relevant to a full study of your topic. Both of these are important kinds of sources, and both should be used in your paper. You may find many more sources than you’ll include in the paper itself, however, and some of the process of library research involves deciding which sources are most important to discuss and which ones are not.

Details

Your paper should be organized as follows (but do not use section headings). Your first section will function as an introduction (1-3 paragraphs): describe your topic, explain your research questions, and discuss the relevance of your topic (why is it important, who might care about it, and how actively are researchers and others writing about it.

Your second section will be a presentation of your research, and you’ll lead us through your sources by summarizing them and explaining how they are part of the scholarly conversation: who is involved, what are they saying, and how do these voices relate to one another? Your analysis of the sources will be particularly helpful in this section.

Your third section will function as an extended conclusion (1-3 paragraphs) in which you imagine the contours of a larger research paper that could be produced from your topic exploration. What are the positions that someone could take in this imaginary research paper, and do any of those positions seem particularly compelling to you? How would this imaginary research paper add to the existing scholarly conversation in your research sources? What additional research would be valuable for this imaginary research paper if time allowed? For example, would more research on adjacent topics be useful, or would you recommend primary research to collect new data, such as surveys, interviews, or observational studies?

Format

Your completed paper must be six to eight (6-8) pages long must incorporate at least six (6) relevant and valid research sources, including one of our course readings in Units 1 or 2. It should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins and a 12-point font. Quotes and paraphrases from your research sources must be cited in-text and listed at the end using MLA or APA. You may write in the first-person (using “”) and the style of your paper should be formal and academic. While you may describe aspects of your research process from a personal perspective, particularly in the introduction and conclusion, your main purpose in this paper is to present research and explore a topic, not to share stories or offer self-reflections about what did or did not go well.

only start the 1st section and the 2nd for the peer review. and the source im using from the course is foer’s eating animals see document attached for his book and use the docs attached for sources. my topic for this paper is how factory processed meats cause diseases and how can’t we prevent it but label the tile of the paper Potential health risk of processed meats and disease prevention. also only use the sources i gave you for the peer review remeber your only doing some of the paper for the peer review to et a layout of the paper not the full paper