Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Policy or Proposal?

Since so many things in the environment would need changing, controlling, and monitoring, it would be clearer to write a policy paper and describe the harmful effects of obesity and how we may consider solving them. My main claim in this policy paper with be that obesity is a harmful disease, describe its effects, and suggest ways of improving our health personally and collectively. Although i have some research for the harmful effects of obesity i will need to further research how they correllate to our environment and behaviors. In addition, i suspect i will need more sources on specific, negative side-effects of obesity as opposed to global, economic side-effects.

1 comment:

Anna Mkhaylova said...

Emily, as I said in our after class discussion, make sure you do not spread yourself too thin trying to cover everything on the issue. The main purpose of the policy paper is to show that a change is long overdue and explain how and why this change is necessary. So, in your case you should formulate you claim about obesity as a call for raising awareness of the side effects of obesity. And here you do not have to list every piece of evidence there is in the world, but pick a few most alarming/important points and explain how they support your main claim.