I began my research with the question of "Is a gluten free diet healthier than a diet with gluten for those without celiac disease, gluten allergies, or gluten sensitives"? But as I accomulate information on the topic, I may need to alter the thesis because I have a lot of information on different aspects of the "gluten debate" but not necessary on the part I wanted to focus on. I feel like at this point it would be most beneficial for me to review my sources this far, and see what I have the most information on. Although it would be a very small change because there is an immense amount of information on gluten because it has now become a big conversation in the US, I feel that my SOFT would be stronger if I took sometime to change it a bit. Also doing Exercise 4.2 helped me to truly think about what I wanted my main topic to be, because although the prompts were simply fill in the blank, I had to think if I would be able to write an entire essay on what I had filled in the blanks with.
Also at my conference with Dr. Ballenger, he told me to make my paper interesting and put personal stories and opinions into it. Of course this was different from what I was taught in high school. I was taught to simply put the facts down on paper. But since the gluten debate is something that I have personally dealt with, I have a lot of people I can interview. This way I am able to add their story into the paper, and those who have gone through an experience with gluten can be the best sources of information. So when I interviewed a few friends about gluten, their own stories provided a lot of very useful information for my paper. And I am excited to be able to add it into my paper, instead of just what the FDA has to say about my topic.
I can relate to the idea of this research essay being different than I was taught throughout my life. It will be interesting to add in my own experiences
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