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Read each of passages below keeping in mind the evaluation criteria you just read about. Use a sheet of paper to write down your answer to the question after each passage. Then, click on the Answers link at the bottom of the page to see how you did.
Source #1: Excerpt from a Newspaper Article
Newspaper Title: Chicago Sun Examiner
Article Title: The Food on Your Plate
Author: Lori Watson, staff writer
Date: November 24, 2004
The food on your plate may look harmless enough but that's what they want you to think. The food bioengineering industry wants you to believe that your turkey and sweet potatoes are as wholesome and genetically unmutated as the food you might grow in your backyard. What they don't tell you is that genetic modification of plants and animals has run rampant all over the world. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (http://www.isaaa.org/) states in their publication, the Global Status of Commercialized Trangenic Crops: 2003 that 67.7 million hectacres all over the world were used to grow genetically modified crops. These plants are clearly taking over and something must be done to stop them.
Question #1: Choose the evaluation areas in which this source seems to be lacking.
Source #2: Excerpt from a book
Human cloning is an interesting discussion topic, but in my professional opinion
it is still largely theoretical. A few things will need to occur before cloning
can become more than a futuristic possibility. Scientists will need to figure out
the human genome
which means that they will need to identify all the genes in human DNA. Beyond
this they will need to make sense of all the chemical base pairs which number
into the billions. Until these things happen, human cloning will never be more
than a topic for science fiction.
Question #2: Choose the evaluation areas in which this source seems to be lacking.
Source #3: Excerpt from a website
School uniforms are bad. They keep people from expressing who they are by wearing
things like jeans and concert t-shirts. I should be able to wear whatever I want
to school because adults get to where whatever they want to work. Plus, I read
that only 3% of public schools have uniforms these days so there aren't even that
many schools that do it anyway so it must not work very well with kids and parents.
I don't think kids would act better in school if they had to wear a uniform because
they would be mad that they can't wear the clothes they want.
Question #3: Choose the evaluation areas in which this source seems to be lacking.
Title: Cloning: Do I Really Want a Twin?
Author: Donald Moorman, PhD. Associate Professor of Genetics, East Washington State University
Date: 1982
Website Title: Mark's Funderdome
WebPage Title: Why school uniforms are bad?
Web Address: http://geocities.yahoo.com/enterthefunderdome.html
Author: Mark ?
Date: None given
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