Sources

When I am looking for a source to use for English 101, I either go to the library’s home page and use their search engine through the Jstor or I go to Google and type in the article topic I’m looking for. Google also has a way to search specifically for scholarly articles. You go to the top of the home page, click more, and then click scholar. I’ve found a lot of good sources there. Some of them are even the same articles that I found in the library search engine so I know that it is just as good of a way to find sources. Google also has books online for free that you can read, I always find these to be great sources for my papers.
Choosing which sources to use is not very hard for me. I usually write my paper first and then go back and add my sources in. this makes it easy for me to know what sources to specifically look for because I already know what I talked about in my paper and I know what will compliment it well. I’ll read through the sources and find quotes that are interesting to me, then read through my paper and see if there is a good place to quote it. If it doesn’t go well with my paper I will not use it and keep reading the article to find a different quote.
To improve my method for finding sources would probably to spend more time looking through the sources so I can find the best source for my paper. Also, to look through more sources instead of just the first couple of articles that the search engines come up with, and to type in different words to try in the search box to get different sources than the search came up with the first time. Other than that, I like the method I use to find sources for my papers.

Norman & other resource

I thought this article was extremely boring, I could hardly get through it all. I’m not really interested in biotechnology, so I don’t really care to read about it. Norman’s ideas were different and I think they’re on the right track. Genetically modified food is a scary thought, but the way he talks about it is pretty convincing. It also seems like an effective way to help stop world hunger and to feel poor people who can’t provide for themselves or their families.
The resource I chose for my paper is Eric Schlosser’s book “Fast Food Nation”. I’ve already read part of his book and I think there is a lot of information in it that I can use for my paper. His book is (obviously) all about fast food, which is a food community of its own. He goes into lots of detail of ethics and how it is affected by class, race, and access. Fast food is cheap and accessible, therefore, lower class buys it more often than other classes. He also talks about how fast food as become the norm of our nation, everybody eats it. It is even a normal occurrence for some people to eat fast food on a daily bases.

3/2/10

I can relate to the omnivores dilemma because I deal with it every single day, especially in the school cafeteria… I’m never quite sure where the meat they’re serving is coming from and if it is safe. The only meat I eat from the school cafeteria is turkey, and I still am not very trusting. I’ve had one burger but felt sick afterward. I usually only eat meat at my grandma’s house, where I feel like its safe to eat.
The chapter on hunting I had a hard time reading some parts, when he talked about gutting and cleaning the pig. I thought it was really funny how Pollan compared hunting to smoking weed. He used good comparisons and detail, I actually liked reading about it. I also thought it was interesting that he didn’t feel any remorse after killing his pig, I would expect that to be the first feeling he’d feel, but instead he felt happy.
I found the chapter on gathering to be extremely boring. I don’t have much to say about it except I do agree that mushrooms are “mysterious”. I think it’s so weird that people can hallucinate off of a type of food we eat on a regular basis. Finally, reading about the rules Pollan made for his meal seemed extremely hard. I never have and don’t think I will be able to make “the perfect meal”, especially all by myself.