Intro-conclusion.

Introduction:

I choose for my paper in SSK1212, organic food, from the main class theme food. The first time we choose this theme, it was because we were fasting and starving therefore our minds were more thinking about Msemen and Harira. In the first activity, which was narrowing topic, I was very upset since I found that food isn’t a good theme but after a little research in the net I found a very interesting topic. Organic food, a good topic for a research paper since it is social and scientific in the same time; I can also go in economic way and find the benefit that farms gain from non organic food. I did a research in our library to find some books to enhance my knowledge about the topic. I found at first a pretty interesting book which is “organic baby and toddler cookbook” it is a good book to understand with simple definitions about the subject. Moreover, I found recipes to discover how to use the organic food, how it is very delicious and healthy, how to buy it from stores and make a delicious meals for children.
The second book which is a new acquisition, and I’m proud to be the first one to read it. It is “America’s food, what you don’t know about what you eat”. It is a very interesting book that shows how farms make vegetables and fruits you can find more information in my next posts. Enjoy.


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Conclusion:

My blog as I hope you enjoyed seeing it was about organic food and how I found the information related to my topic. As u see, I started with the internet as a basic reference to choose a topic for the theme which is food. I decided to have my presentation on organic food since it is very interrested and needed in our daily life to not be a darker consumers. It was difficult to find a book in the library since the book that I chose was a new acquisition and I didn’t notice that. Therefore, I went to the reference after three days of waiting of the staff getting back the book in its place. And I was proud to be the first one that read the book.
The second difficulty was looking for a periodical journal an academic and a non academic. For a non academic, I spent all Tuesday afternoon in the library until I found “Health magazine”. However, that article didn’t have a healpful information for my researsh paper. Then, I look for the academic periodical, it was pretty easy since I went to the chemicals journals and I found a lot of articles about organic and conventional foods. But it wasn’t interesting since they are technical and very difficult to understand.
My final paper was about the interesting information that I found in books, hence; I found that internet, journals, or whatever the source of information can be, books were, are, and will be the only important source of information since they are complete, relaible and from facts. Moreover, the whole process gives me the patient to learn. I was a keyboard learner since everything that I don’t understand I use google, webmaster dictionary in Pc, wikipedia and I look for books just in literature or fiction stories and not informative and persuative books. Also, I learn that blogs can be healpful and full of interesting information for instance the zenhabit blog was very fascinating look, and interesting content. However, having my own blog about food doesn’t interest me as much as having a fashion blog. Since, I hope doing a stylist carreer after graduating from AUI, and I found that is a great idea to begin from here and start my own blog about thoughts and reflections in the fashion world and explain to the whole readers that fashion isnt that superficiel and appearance is as important as intellectuel thoughts.

Internet Blog (25 most famous blog)

• Evaluating Zenhabits Blog
  

Internet is full of information, you can find what you want and what you need in the internet just you have to look for it carefully and do the best choice. From the 25 best blog I found that http://zenhabits.net/ is a good informative blog that talk about ways of living and having a Zen attitude toward life. It is daily blog that talk about our social life, way of eating, and having good habits. The writer of the blog is Leo Babauta. He is a blogger, writer, journalist and published author from Guam, USA. His first post was on February 1, 2007. “Zen Habits is ranked 66 of Technorati's top 100 blogs as of June 3, 2009. In February 2009, Time Magazine named Zen Habits one of the Top 25 Blogs for 2009.” he has other publications an e-book “Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System” and his first print book “The Power of Less, was published by Hyperion Books.” The blog reaches 142,000 subscriptions; I really found that is very normal since the blog is very well designed, good content, and easy English which is the things that makes a good blog.

SSK 1212 Evaluating Document from EBSCO Database Worksheet

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.
Instructions: Use the document you have found. Answer the following questions. In order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may need to do some additional research:
1. First, write the full reference here:



Title:Why organic versus conventional farming is a redundant debate.
Authors:Giles, Jim
Source:New Scientist; 8/8/2009, Vol. 203 Issue 2720, p10-10, 1p
ISSN:02624079
Accession Number:43700863



2. Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?



Authors:Giles, Jim
http://www.jimsafe.com/ Jim Giles is reporter in the San Francisco bureau of New Scientist. He writes about science, politics and the environment.
“In December 2005, he and colleagues published a story that compared the accuracy of science articles in Wikipedia to those in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Peer reviewers recruited by Nature identified an average of four inaccuracies in the Wikipedia articles they examined and an average of around three in articles on the same topics in Britannica.[1] Britannica subsequently criticized the story[2], prompting Nature to clarify the methodology used[3] to compile the results.”
“Giles studied physics at the University of Bristol. He received a master's degree in computational neuroscience from the University of Oxford. Giles initially developed exihibitions at the Science Museum in London, joining Nature in 2001 as a news and features editor and becoming a reporter for the journal in 2003.”



3. Evaluate Affiliation: What institution (company, organization, university, etc.) published this text? Is it a commercial or non-profit publisher? What else does the institution publish? Could




the author's affiliation with this publisher bias their work?
New scientist is a group of expert of science writers, colleagues and students since 1956. It is not peer reviwed. http://www.newscientist.com/.


4. Evaluate Currency: When was the text published and/or last updated? Will you use it for current information or for historical context?



New Scientist; 8/8/2009 and as the most of my research it is based on current information but with a little comparison with the organic farming before the 21st century.

5. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose of this text? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute? Explain why do you think so.



This article is very interesting since it gives a current idea and information about the farming nowadays, what are the differences and the incentive to use conventional or non organic farming. Moreover, it gives opinion from some opponents "Organic agriculture is not without environmental consequences."

6. Write here specifically what information from this document you are going to use in your paper.

“But could the whole debate about organic versus non-organic be missing the point?” from my perspective I find that the text debate organic farming vs. non organic farming that’s very obvious from the thesis statement of the essay (the first quote in my answer). Therefore, I like to take the part of organic farming but with knowing very well what the opponents think about it, especially in economic matter.


7 Conclusion: Now that you have assessed the source in more detail, do you still think it is useful? Explain why or why not. If it is not useful, what are you going to do about it?

From a research to another, I found myself very related to this topic since I’m very interested about health and food. Moreover, I believe that most of our health problem eg cancer… are related to the way we eat and the quality of food. Therefore, it will be a pleasure to present my topic in an informative way to my classmate, and give them the opportunity to discover the importance of food since from the book that I read “America’s food” there is no substitution of the food in our life.

Internet Sources

1. Write down the full reference for three possible internet sources for your research:
a. www.organicfoodee.com/ by Ysanne SpevackEditor, OrganicFoodee.com


b. www.organicfoodinfo.net/ by Virginia Louise, a woman who has tasted an organic food and did some research because it found it very tasty as when she was child.


c. www.organicfood.co.uk/ by anonym writer and director but it helps people to know better about food by the UK’s premier organic directory.



2. Choose the one you are most interested in, and explain why you think it is a credible source:

I found that every website has some good and interesting information for my paper and also my daily life. Therefore, I’ll take from all of them to enhance my knowledge.


3. For the source you chose, explain what type of information it contains, and how that information is useful for your project:

For the first website, it is very helpful because it gives more details about the way of farming which very important to understand where our foods come from.
The second is more what to eat and how; it gives recipes and ways to eat organic and also and which is important how to buy it from stores.
The third is more what the benefits are from eating organic. And what is the problem that we can have if we still eat non organic food. Hence, I found as I said before that the three are interesting and important for my subject.

4. Evaluate the objectivity of the source, based on what you have learned from class discussions and readings such as "How to Evaluate Information on the Web".

I think that all the sites are subjective since people who created them have already a bad influence about non organic food, so it’s like advertising organic to show just the good side not if there is a bad side of organic food.

SSK 1212 Evaluating Periodicals Worksheet

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.
Instructions: Use the periodicals you have found on our class topic. Answer the following questions in order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may need to do some additional research

First, write the full reference here:

Journal of chemical education by the division of chemical education of the American chemical society, issn 00219534, volume 86, number 3, march 2009.
2. Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?

Jenifer K. Bachman and D. Miles
The University of the South

3. Evaluate Affiliation: What institution (company, organization, university, etc.) published this text?

Is it a commercial or non-profit publisher? What else does the institution publish? Could the author's affiliation with this publisher bias their work?
It is an academic journal by the division of chemical education of the American chemical society, The University of the South, Sewanee.

4. Evaluate Currency: When was the text published and/or last updated? Will you use it for current information or for historical context?

It was published in March 2009, and I will use this article for current information since it brings more information about the components of farming foods nowadays.

5. Evaluate Audience: Who is the intended audience (students, educators, the general public, experts) for the text? Is it written for someone with a small or large amount of knowledge on the subject?

It is more specific since there are a lot of scientific words that I didn’t understand. Also, it explains different scientific and complex theories.

6. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose of this text? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute?

To explain with details and proofs some cooking food.


7. Evaluate Sources: Where did the author get their information? Is there a bibliography? Are there footnotes? Does the author refer to primary or secondary material?

There is notes at the end of the article where it is cited the bibliography and the sources of some theories; they are 15. also, there is a supporting material which is some websites.


8. Conclusion: Now that you have assessed the source in more detail, do you still think it is useful? Explain why or why not.

Yes, it is very useful for someone who is basically scientist, for me it doesn’t help me a lot since most of the terms and theories hadn’t been understand. Also, it is quite a far from my subject and what I want to inform my audience about because I believe that if you want to inform, students must use a casual terms.

SSK 1212 Evaluating Books Worksheet (non academic)

The following criteria and questions can help you to judge the value of a source.
Instructions: Use the book you have found on our class topic in the Mohammed VI Library. Answer the following questions in order to assess the credibility of your chosen source; you may find the answers by checking through the appropriate parts of the book, or you may need to do some additional research:

1. First, write the full reference here:

My book reference is America’s Food “what you don’t know about what you eat” by Harvey Blatt, ISBN 978-0-262-02652-9.
2. Evaluate Authority: Who is the author of this text? Do they have a degree or other expertise that qualifies them to write on the subject? What else has the author published?

“Harvey Blatt is the author of America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? (MIT Press). He taught geology at the University of Houston and the University of Oklahoma for many years and is now Professor of Geology at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.” MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=22666


3. Evaluate Affiliation: What institution (company, organization, university, etc.) published this book? Is it a commercial or non-profit publisher? What else does the institution publish? Would the author's affiliation with this publisher bias their work?

The MIT press which is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The MIT Press is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology.” However, they published beyond science and engineering. They published “about 200 new books a year and over 40 journals.” “They are a major publishing presence in fields as diverse as architecture, social theory, economics, cognitive science, and computational science, and we have a long-term commitment to both design excellence and the efficient and creative use of new technologies.” their aim is to create books and journals that are “challenging, creative, attractive, and yet affordable to individual readers.”
http://mitpress.mit.edu/mitpress/history/default.asp

4. Evaluate Currency: When was the book published and/or last updated? Will you use it for current information or for historical context?

2008, however this book has a comparison between before the 20th century where agriculture was organic and now where it is made by chemicals.

5. Evaluate Audience: Who is the intended audience (students, educators, the general public, experts) for the book? Is it written for someone with a small or large amount of knowledge on the subject?

It is written for everybody even if the title is America’s food since in all over the world farms use chemicals; therefore, I found the book very reflective what’s going on Morocco’s farms.

6. Evaluate Purpose: What appears to be the purpose for the book? Is it to inform, persuade, entertain, report, or refute?

The book is informing the reader about the food that everybody buys in the supermarket and report some facts and survey to better show the issue.

7. Evaluate Sources: Where did the author get their information? Is there a bibliography? Are there footnotes? Does the author refer to primary or secondary material?

The author took a lot of information from several books and the bibliography has more than 4 pages.

8. Conclusion: Now that you have assessed your book in more detail, do you still think it is useful? Explain why or why not. If you do intend to use it, name the chapters or sections that you think will be most useful for your topic.

The book that I pick from the library as a hunt and help for my project is very helpful and useful even before using and answering those questions. In fact, it is helpful even in my personal life since after reading this book and even while reading it I’ll figure out what I eat specially that the book refer to chemicals and some fertilizers that farmers are using to grow fast the vegetables or more worse to grow chickens. Also, the book shows as where some diseases are since those chemicals can kill people after a period of time.