The most interesting think I have learned about rice so far is the irrigation technique required to grow the plant successfully. Large quantities of water are required to grow rice, and this will lead to a major water shortage in Asia in 2025 unless current irrigation techniques are altered to impute less water and produce more rice. I discovered this information by reading through an article; it contained a section specifically focusing on water problems associated with rice production. A problem I’ve run into when researching my topic is convincing the audience that the issue I am addressing is something they should care about. Most of the articles I have discovered are offering suggestions to lower the water amount necessary to produce rice, not explaining that families in Asia will experience famine if water levels used to grow rice are not reduce. It is different to extend this concern, since simply stating that families will go hungry seems to be the only thing I can do, unless I add fluff or reword the concern which is not something I want to do.
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Hi Jessica,
I think you have a great concern here, and I understand that it is hard to find a way to make it appear as a concern to others. But since the audience for our papers is the university staff/faculty and much of our university's population is asian, I think you could possibly make this concern hit home a bit more. Because not only will the families in Asia go hungry, but the Asian Americans who eat rice everyday and sometimes with every meal, will not be doing this. Though this may seem a little stupid for someone to be concerned with, I see this as a cultural tradition, that could be lost.
I also has a lot of trouble in figuring out how to make my audience care about what I am talking about. I just tried to make it as personal as possible and tie the reader in whenever I could.
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