Research

I've been pouring over my research this weekend in order to crank out a reasonable draft for Monday. I'm having problems in that I have a topic, I know what I want to write about, but I'm feeling that it's much too broad. I'm good at summarizing things so I'm sure I could get a paper out of it, I'm just don't know if too much good content would be sacrificed in the process. So this is my attempt to decipher the chaos in my brain.

My outline looks like this, but the problem is that each of these topics could be an entire paper in itself, so I'm just working out a stricter focus.

Industrial Agriculture

+ Impact on the environment: for this we have many subgroups. There's herbicides and pesticides, loss of biodiversity, erotion/loss of topsoil, and polluted water systems

+ Human health concerns: meat that is raised on high amounts of hormones and antibiotics is not that great for you, same goes for crops, and water with all those agrochemicals

+ Social concerns - Impact of rural communities: this is the part that I find most interesting, but also the part with the least amount of objective/scholarly information.

+Economic concerns: don't have much information on this, but my sources elude to its importance

+ Reasons for existance: oh, the farm subsidy debate - makes my head hurt

+ The benefits of industrial agriculture: cheap food for a hungry world, an extremely important factor

Well, this looks like a job for my writing group. We'll see tomorrow.