silly me.

Chapter 6 was all about being a researcher. A "re-search"er, as in again and again. This chapter leads us through a passage of 1. developing a question about what you want to find out 2. use it to help you find out what you need to look up or research 3. carry out your research 4. use the research to make a test design plan & 5. produce and test your communication. I've done research papers before, but non in this odd fashion. So this was of course a bit of a surprise because it seems like such a long and tedious routine. I hope if Cathy has us do this whole process that she walks us through it and explains it a whole lot better than the book does. But what really surprised me was more in the begging of the chapter, having to do with ethics. "But antoher way to look at what you do when you research is that with new knowledge you strengthen your ties to other people because knowing more about what something is, about what happened, or about how something works changed how you go about living with other people. Knowledge has effects-praticle and moral- on yourself and other people. Given what we've been saying about ethics, it should be clear that each step in this chapter has an ethical dimension." I never ever ever ever realized this. It totally just smacked me across the face. But its so true, and vital in our writing. I guess its just something that comes naturally, but i believe that now knowing that we as writers do this, it will greatly help with some of the writing to audience issues.

China is killlling innocent people!

So my research paper topic will most definitely be related to diabetes and the nursing situation in Silicon Valley. However, I wanted to try out a different branch from the topic; the medicine. Insulin had to be approved and re approved to make sure it does its job with proper effectiveness and no abnormal side effects, for insulin can be lethal. And in this article China arrest a man for making a diabetes drug lethal. “BEIJING—Police in China have arrested a man accused of distributing a shoddy diabetes drug blamed for at least two deaths, a state news agency said Saturday. The medicine contained six times the normal amount of a chemical ingredient used to lower blood sugar. It is blamed for killing two people and sickening nine others in the far western region of Xinjiang. The drug is believed to have been widely distributed throughout the country, though only Xinjiang reported problems.” This is an outrage! How can we as a society much less I as a sister of a diabetic can believe that the only thing that can keep my sister alive, killed her? This should have been checked and approve by the FDA and there should no longer be any slip ups. “China has been hit by a string of cases highlighting its poor record in food and drug safety. Last year, at least six babies died and nearly 300,000 were sickened by infant formula contaminated with an industrial chemical that can cause kidney failure.” Accidents like these need the proper precaution to make sure the product is safe. I understand that when there is manufacturing there is mistakes. One pant leg is a little longer than the other. But now a days we have the right technology to avoid that! Especially with something as severe as insulin and other life threatiening and health related products.