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9 th Grade

9 th Grade. Research Proposal Outline. Your proposal must address all elements of the rhetorical situation. Purpose Author Topic Audience. OUTLINE. Introduce your topic by: grabbing the reader’s attention presenting your essential question Providing a clear thesis.

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9 th Grade

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  1. 9th Grade Research Proposal Outline

  2. Your proposal must address all elements of the rhetorical situation • Purpose • Author • Topic • Audience

  3. OUTLINE • Introduce your topic by: • grabbing the reader’s attention • presenting your essential question • Providing a clear thesis

  4. The best way to grab a reader’s attention is with a good HOOK America may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but it is also the land of fast food and the home of obesity and disease.

  5. Your essential question relates to the problem you have researched Are genetically modified organisms making America sick?

  6. THESIS Huge food corporations, such as Monsanto, lobby to keep the public ignorant about the dangers of GMO’s, and the widespread use of them in non-organic foods.

  7. Background and Current Situation • This is where you will incorporate all that research!!! • Don’t forget to incorporate direct quotes with citations…… • And paraphrased info

  8. Description of the problem in detail • What is a GMO? • GMOs, or “genetically modified organisms,” are plants or animals that have been genetically engineered with DNA from bacteria, viruses or other plants and animals. These experimental combinations of genes from different species cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding. • One example is hydrogenated oil. • Huge food corporations use GMO’s, which are bad for us, because they are cheaper and have a longer shelf life than fresh, clean food. • Packaged and processed foods • Fast food • A lot of non-organic produce, especially corn • These companies have money and power, and therefore have a strong arm in government. With government/FDA backing, they are practically unstoppable. • Smaller, family run companies and farms often cannot compete. • This is one reason for the greater cost of organic food. • Consuming a diet heavy in GMO’s can lead to disease and illness, as well as obesity.

  9. Example of a direct quote • “On the eve of a worldwide protest against Monsanto, 71 U.S. senators voted against an amendment to the Senate version of the 2013 Farm Bill that would have guaranteed states the right to enact mandatory GMO labeling laws.” (Organic Consumers Association Campaigning for Health, Justice, Sustainability, Peace, and • Democracy)

  10. Example of paraphrased information • Even though a massive protest was taking place against Monsanto, on that very same night the senate voted in their favor. The result of this vote prevents a law which would have forced food manufacturers to label their foods containing GMO’s.

  11. Works Cited • Basic rules • Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper. • Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page. • Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries. • Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent. • List page numbers of sources efficiently, when needed. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as 225-50. Note that MLA style uses a hyphen in a span of pages.

  12. Works Cited cont. • Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines: • Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name). • You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function. • Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

  13. Works Cited • "Organic Consumers Association Campaigning for Health, Justice, Sustainability, Peace, and Democracy." Organic Consumers Association: Millions Against Monsanto. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Feb. 2014. • "Organic Consumers Association · Campaigning for Health, Justice, Sustainability, Peace, and Democracy." Organic Consumers Association: Millions Against Monsanto. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Feb. 2014

  14. For more help with MLA • https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ • http://www.easybib.com/cite/view

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