Annotated Bibliography in ACS Stye

In this post I created an annotated bibliography according to the American Chemical Society Style for creating citations. This link shows an example of an annotated bibliography that I followed while creating mine. I apologize for the weird formatting, I was unable to get the formatting to work properly in Google Drive as well.

1. Abdessamad, A. Aouad Abdessamad on Twitter, 2015. Twitter. https://twitter.com/AouadAbdessamad/status/640307101936578560 (accessed Sep 6, 2015).

Aouad Abdessamad used Twitter as a platform to inform the readers. His tweet guides the reader to both his blog, and an article about genetically modified food. Though Twitter, in addition to other forms of social media, are typically used for a person to share their opinions, the two articles that were linked in the tweet give both sides of the genetically modified food making Aouad's comment a unique unbiased source, which can be used to contrast all of the other sources because it remains mostly partial. 

2. Braun, R. People's Concerns About Biotechnology: Some Problems And Some Solutions. J. of Biotech. [Online] 2002, 98, 3-8.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168165602000810 (accessed Sep 5, 2015). 

This is one of the few articles I was able to find that advocated for genetic modification of  plants. This article mentioned the benefit GMOs could have the world's food supply and claimed genetic modification was safe due to the lack of documented incidents. This article like the one from Scientific American will add interesting contrast to the plethora of articles against genetic modification. 

3. Gebreyes, R. Bill Nye Expains Why He Changed His Mind About GMOs, 2015. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/11/bill-nye-gmos-changed-mind_n_7245092.html. (accessed Sep 11, 2015).

        This purpose of this source was to connect the reader to an interview conducted by the Huffington Live with Bill Nye on his opinions on GMOs. This article will be very helpful to the creation of a Quick Reference Guide because it shows people using the media to talk about genetically modifying food. 

4. Latawiec, A. Amy Metcalf Latawiec on Twitter, 2015. Twitter.

         https://twitter.com/Amy_Danger/status/640229501369237506 (accessed Sep 6, 2015).

        Amy Latawiec's tweet was in response to other twitter users tweets. She is arguing against the growing discontent with the movement, "What's in our food". Using a post from Twitter will add a sample of the general public into the analysis. Twitter limits users to shorts messages, therefore the comment from Amy in concise, and easily describes her beliefs on the controversy. 

5. Madin, E. Genetically Engineered Salmon Pose Environmental Risks That Must Be Considered. BioScience. [Online] 2011, 61, 6-6.  http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/

        content/61/1/6.full (accessed Sep 5, 2015).

        The interesting thing about this article is its specific to an event in the genetic engineering food controversy. It pertains to the FDA considering allowing genetically altered fish to enter the regular environment, so its warnings against GMO are in response to an event. The context of this journal article will be helpful in adding context to the analysis of the controversy.  

6. McWaffle89. GMOs? Science on the subject rather than the BS from both sides, 2013. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1ce3v4/gmos_science_on_the_               subject_rather_than_the_bs/ (accessed Sep 11, 2015). 

        This source was a comments thread started in the ScienceAsk section of Reddit. While the responses to the original question range from helpful to humorous, some of the information provided is scientific and provides good background of what GMOs are and why the controversy on them. This source will be the most useful in comparing information provided from other biased sources about GMOs. Because comment threads have more than one author, the source has more than one perspective and bias.

7. Mercola. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) - Myths and Truths [Video]. September 20, 2012. Youtube. 2012. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxscQY7X0mtnaCbkGTjZ17g  (accessed Sep 11, 2015). 

        This particular source was created with the purpose of getting California residents to vote  against a GMO related proposition. As a result of its purpose, this video was very biased against the use of GMO. The source employed several type graphics including photographs, graphs and charts, and artistic renditions. This source will be useful in creating a Quick Reference Guide because it gives lots of detailed information on the history of genetically engineering plants. Because it is a biased source, it will be most effective when used in combination with a source biased on the opposite side. 

8. Realtruth.org,. Genetically Engineered Foods “ Why the Controversy?:, n.d. Real Truth.  http://www.realtruth.org/articles/223-gefwtc.html (accessed Sep 5, 2015).

This article by Real Truth is trying to inform the reader about the controversy surrounding the genetically engineered food, while trying to persuade the reader against the genetically altered organisms. Real Truth focuses on countering every claim made by those in favor of GMO with what it believes is the truth. This article will be helpful in the future as it gives examples of possible scenarios that could result because of the GMOs in the environment, and quotes like this could give an interesting perspective to an argument.

9. Ronald, P. Plant Engineers Sow Debate, 2014. Scientific American.  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plant-engineers-sow-debate/ (accessed Sep 5, 2015).

        The article "Plant Engineers Sow Debate, published in Scientific American works to enlighten the reader about the benefits of genetically modifying plants. Ronald  highlights the scientific advancements that have allowed for scientists to modify food to be more beneficial for humans. Because this article provides a very different attitude on genetic engineering food, it will be helpful in contrasting the information from the other sources. 

10. Tarasova, A. Why are you anti-GMO?, Tumblr. http://annietarasova.tumblr.com/post/

        121007730613/why-are-you-anti-gmo. (accessed Sep 11, 2015). 

        This particular Tumblr post was used to communicate the thoughts of the user, Annie Tarasova, on the topic of GMO (genetically modified organisms). The post focused on presenting evidence against the production of food containing GMOs, and the consumption of such food. The major benefit to using a source such as this one is that the article presents the opinion of part of the public. Also, the post gave links to the resources it used to gather data, so a correlation can be drawn between the reaction and emotions that different sources illicit.


Reflection: 
From reading a couple of my classmates bibliographies, who also did not use MLA, made me realize how much I really dislike the MLA style for citations.

I was able to find Mehruba's post who also used the ACS style for her bibliography. As expected, our bibliographies look rather similar because we used the same citation style. I really like using the ACS style as I think it easily displays all the information and is very to the point.

After reading Brandon's bibliography in AMA style I realized that all of the citations are very similar to each other. In my bibliography and his the citation starts with the author and moves into the title of the article. Other included information is the date the source was accessed, the URL, and the name of the Journal or website the information originated from.