Time for Revising

I was able to finish my draft and get to the required page count, but I was very glad that we were able to read it in groups. Although I can not say I particularly liked reading ten and a half pages aloud about gluten, it was very helpful for me. I had read over it by myself, but after reading it to others, I was able to see that I did not stick to my thesis very well. I wanted to look into the different gluten intolerances and why "gluten free" has become the "new fad diet". Although I had a lot of information about celiac disease, wheat allergies, and gluten sensitivities, because all this information was easy for me to find, I did not have very much information about why gluten free has become the "new big thing". Because this is such a recent topic, there are not as many studies and articles about this aspect of gluten. There were many bias blogs or some newspaper articles, but not many journals or such with this information. I think because of this, I just wrote about the things that were easier to find. This was not very apparent to me, until I read it out loud to my group. This was incredibly helpful because now I know that direction my revisions can go. I also think that once I had more information about the recent trends, the paper will be more interesting and relevant. I kept thinking to myself while I was reading it, "If someone didn't have one of the disorders that I am describing, would they want to read my paper?"
I also interviewed a nutritionalist about this topic, and she is giving a talk about it on November 5 and I am hoping to go to this and see if I can get more information from her talk and see if she brings up any new, interesting points that I could talk about in my paper.