Position Paper

 POSITION PAPER-Are organic foods really safe?

Choose an environmental issue, and write a 5-7 page (NOT  INCLUDING a title page and the bibliography), double-spaced, typewritten paper detailing exactly what the issue is, what the proponents and opponents of the issue think, and what your position on the issue is (e.g., a position or persuasive paper). Please support your position with ecological/environmental data and reasoning.  Please REFERENCE your data. You should use AT LEAST FIVE DIFFERENT sources to support your argument.  Acceptable sources include, but are not limited to:

    A) POPULAR LITERATURE:                        B) SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE:

         Time Magazine                                       Journal of Ecology

          Newsweek                                              Scientific American

          U.S. World and News                             Science

          Your local paper                                             American Midland Naturalist

          North Carolina Wildlife                                    American Journal of Botany                   

          etc.                                                        etc.

    C) INTERNET ARTICLES ARE ACCETABLE AS LONG AS THEY ARE PROPERLY

         REFERENCED.

     D)  Use proper citation methods (MLA, APA, or Chicago styles) in your paper AS

           WELL AS in your bibliography.