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Social Impact Analysis

Capstone Paper

Identify a contemporary or leading edge design, product or concept (DPC) that has the potential for significant societal impacts if widely deployed. Your Social Impact Analysis Capstone Paper must provide formal research references to support the paper's content and conclusions on your chosen topic. Your literature resources might be scientific and engineering journal articles, popular publications, patents, copyrights, etc. You must use one of these standard citation styles (APA, MLA, Turabian, or Chicago) to cite your sources. Using Microsoft Word makes it very easy to create appropriate citations using one of these standards. You may use the Internet to do your research, but if you do, you must cite the source including a hyper link.

Example: Philosophy of Technology. Retrieved January, 2013, from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Web site: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/
Your SIA Capstone Paper will require you to demonstrate originality and critical thinking about the ethical implications of your chosen topic.


The required outline for the SIA Term Capstone paper is provided in the link to the PDF file below. 


Details: 

Your topic proposal must be approved before submitting the final version of your paper.
The paper must be a minimum of 2500 words in length including references.
It must be submitted as a Word or PDF document using the TurnItIn link below. TurnItIn will return an originality report that indicates the percentage of your paper that is similar to or identical to other published work. The smaller the originality percentage the more original your paper. Quoting another author's words significantly increases your originality percentage and reduces your term paper score. A 0% originality score is as good as it gets. An excellent originality score is less than 10%. Scores in the range of 10% to 20% are acceptable. Scores greater than 20% will receive a zero for originality in the grading rubric.
Anything you quote and/or paraphrase must be cited. Please use the citation style above you are most comfortable with.  Papers that lack appropriate citation will be heavily penalized.
Your references must include both 1) In-text citation and 2) works cited references at the end of your paper.
You may use the Internet to do your research, but if you do, be sure to cite the source including a hyper link.
Your paper must be clearly organized and include headers for major sections.
You may submit revised papers multiple times until the due date; however, you will only receive feedback on your final submission.



This is the Proposal


Social impact paper (proposal)
The social impacts of genetically engineered crops 
Summary 
Genetically Modified crops are organisms that are scientifically made through the insertion of a gene into the crop that has been obtained from external sources such as bacteria, plants and animals. The aim of this technology has been to give human the ability to overcome intractable barriers (psychological) through having sufficient food for all humanity in the world.  As human population in the world is expanding, there has been a reasonable increase in production of food but also an increase in prices. By having crops with more favorable trait the natural ones, humanity can produce large quantities to feed everybody. The technology has attracted much attention especially from the media and there has been increased need for public to understand its psychological, social, cultural, financial and environmental effects. 
Significance of the research 
There is a feeling among many people in scientific community who feel that the positive impacts and safety of Genetically Modified crops have clearly been established. Other individuals feel that information on risks associated with this technology has been highlighted.  The issue of genetically Modified crops is very important because it affects all humans around the globe.  Given the increased pace with which the genetically modified crops production is advancing all the stakeholders including the farmers, policy makers and  consumers face the challenge of having one vision on the role of this technology in food supply.  Of more importance has been ethic issues result from human consumptions of foods that have been genetically been modified. There is a possibility that the introduction of new genes into plants may pose risks to human health, and other far reaching impacts, thus highlighting the need to focus on this topic. It does not help that information published in the media may be scientifically unfounded but believed by the most in the world population nevertheless. 


This is what they said about the proposal


The ethics of genetically modified (GM) crops is a good topic but very broad. Narrowing the focus to one aspect of GM crops will make your paper easier to write. Keep in mind this is an engineering ethics paper.  As you write your paper be sure your opinions are supported by critical thinking and external references. Otherwise your opinions are just belief statements. Another pitfall to avoid is spending too much of the paper describing GM crop technology and not enough analysis of the ethical issues. Following the specified outline will help keep the paper balanced. The originality score is the per cent of the paper's text that is similar to or identical to another author's published text. The smaller the percent the more original the paper. Good scores will be less than 15%.  To improve your originality score, avoid direct quotes and just paraphrasing another author's words. Write your own thoughts and critical thinking backed up by external references. I look forward to reading your paper.