Arguement of fact. Blog #5

During this research paper, we are required to write an "argument of fact". And while I am writing mine, I am going to be clearing up some misconceptions about agriculture. Specifically, I am clearing up the misconception that agriculture related degrees are "worthless" and unable to provide jobs after graduation.
The new information I am providing is going to be different statistics about jobs and what the industry is truly like after leaving college.
I will be bringing the unknown issue of bad marketing to the table and talking about how this article (Degrees that are useless) affected the agriculture industry. This is important for people to understand so that it does not happen again, and so that people have a knowledge of why agriculture is so important in general.
I just want people to get it. I love agriculture and it is where my passion lies, but I do understand that it is not for everyone to particularly fall in love with. Therefore, my main goal and concept of this paper is to simply educate my peers and the public about how the industry I am going to have a career in, will be affecting them completely. Many do not understand or see that and it has a negative impact on the field.
Now, I realize that simply just stating this will not do much for the common person so I will be using facts, statistics, statements from professors, etc to explain this thoroughly.
I have some from my original three sources, but now I am in the process of searching extensively to find what I need to do the best I can. I am determined!

My learning process. Blog #4

Now that I have summarized three scholarly sources, I am making my way through this process. We are on our way! I have learned a lot about my topic and about the reactions of the world to this article. This stirred up a crazy amount of debate, discussion and arguement from the agriculture world. I learned more on the statistics of agricutural jobs and that there are actually too many jobs in the field but not enough qualified people to fill the slots which came at a huge to surprise to me. Mostly everything I learned was swayed to prove Yahoo!'s theory wrong. I feel like I need to do more research on the specific statistics to turn this paper to be acedemic. I am going to continue my search in the data bases through the school and see what I can find. Also, I will look on state and national agriculture websites and the job data base for the United States.

My movement towards Agvocation

Well, writing this research paper has been a lot harder than I expected. It is not that I have lacked passion or an understanding of a topic, but quite the opposite actually. I have so much passion for the whole topic of agriculture, it has been overwhelming in trying to narrow down a specific topic for use.
So then I remembered talking to one of my Ag. teachers a couple years ago about an article that Yahoo! had posted saying Agriculture was in the top ten most useless degrees. As a college student majoring in an agriculture study, this moves me to show the world that it is not the case.
When searching for papers to use, useful keywords were "agriculture", "post-secondary studies", "importance", etc. I found that using specific sentences when trying to find information was not an advantage for me. There are a lot of sources about agriculture, but not very much for what I am trying to find specificially. It is taking a lot of time for me to find what I need but it is worth the struggle.
Most of the sources I have seen came from agriculturists that were heated and felt the need to argue against this so that we do not get a bad or useless name.
So this is my movement to inspire and to teach about the importance of agriculture education in college. A.K.A- Agvocation. I am advocating agriculture and hoping to shine some light on the subject.