Bio-engineered Food & Genetically Modified Organisms

The following resources will help you in your exploration of bio-engineered foods.

Part 1: Explore

Databases

Opposing Viewpoints
features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Science Resource Center
(CT Digital Library> Link to Individual Resources> Science Resource Center)
Articles from magazines, journals, and reference books; biographies and images. Covers life and physical sciences, health, medicine and technology.

Gale's Global Issues in Context This resource empowers users with the tools they need to understand today’s world issues from a global perspective. 

 

Internet Sites

Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml

Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology: http://pewagbiotech.org/newsroom/releases/062702.php3

Genetically Modified Foods - Harmful or Helpful? http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gmfood/overview.php

World Health Organization - Food Safety: http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications

Action Bioscience - Issues in Biotechnology:  http://actionbioscience.org/biotech

AgBioWorld: Are Bioengineered Foods Safe? http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/biotech-art/fda_mag.html

If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.
 

Part 2: Find

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.google.com or http://scholar.google.com/, etc.
           
  2. Type in keyword(s).  If your keyword has two parts such as: "genetically modified food", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites on genetically modified as opposed to all of the sites containing the word genetically  plus all of the sites containing the word modified.
     

  3. If you would like to search for something specific about genetically modified, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find out about the benefits and concerns of the genetically modified food,  I would enter the following:

    "genetically modified", food, concerns, benefits

    Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     

Part 3: Evaluate

  1. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:

Use the Evaluation Criteria as a guide to evaluating the quality of a website.

  Part 4: Avoid Plagiarism

        Avoid Plagiarism!  Always record the information you find in your own words.  See Region 15 Plagiarism Guide.

Part 5: Cite

  1. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.


 

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