Preliminary thesis & ideas
For the research paper, I have decided that the ethicality animal experimentation should be my topic as I have done some previous research on the subject. Since I believe that animal experimentation and animal toxicology (the testing of chemicals and how they affect living systems) is unethical, I have decided to focus my paper on the campaign against animal experimentation. This includes, but its not limited to many organizations such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and www.stopanimaltests.com (an smaller organization within PETA). I also believe I will give all perspectives of animal experimentation and use organizations that experiment with animals to make my argument stronger. One last focus, will be the government laws and acts passed to decrease animal testing. Animal experimentation is ethically wrong seen through government laws and acts, organizations against animal testing, and the records of animal experiments.
Research & sources
I intend to use the records of animal experiments from sources such as the NTP, or National Toxicology Program to show the harms and facts in testing. I also intend to use the PETA website and www.stopanimaltests.com as strong campaigns against animal experimentation. Many news articles also discuss the dangers in animal testing such as those from www.foxnews.com. News articles also discuss the laws and acts passed to reduce experimentation. Lastly, I plan to use the library database for journal articles discussing animal experimentation.
Obstacles
I do not see many obstacles in this project. I believe that my research will be thorough and not too hard.
The thesis was not actually stated above, but it sounds like she had a really good idea of what she was going to write about.
ReplyDeleteThe sources were really good; there was a lot of variety and a it looks like there will be a lot of evidence to support the thesis.
She didn't think there would be any difficulties, therefore there are no solutions to offer.
The only comment I have is to maybe to include the argument that animal testing is okay just to give the readers another perspective and to show in your argument why there reason is wrong and to make your argument stronger.
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