TED TalksBrainstorming and Researching

Topics & Keywords1. Identify TWO main keywords to describe

your topic.

1.Going Green 2. Supermarkets

Topics & Keywords2. Generate lists of synonyms.

1. Going Green 2. Supermarkets

Eco-friendly Wasteful

Healthy Preservatives

Chemical-free Inefficient

Farm-raised Factory produced

Working Thesis3. List problems connected to your keywords.

1. Not everyone can grow a garden

2. Most people think going to the department store is faster and easier

3. Not everyone knows how to grow a garden

4. People think going green is a hippy thing to do.

Working Thesis4. List your own ideas about your keywords.

1. I believe that going green can help the environment

2. I believe that going green and planting your own garden can make you healther.

3. I believe that you can have fun going green

4.I believe that going green isn’t as hard as people think

Working Thesis5. Merge your best "problems" with your best

"ideas."

1.The supermarkets are wasteful and not eco-friendly hey should supply their stores with a majorty of locally grown products. These support the local farms and are fresher and healthier for you.

Research Questions6. Identify what may already be true about your

working thesis.

1. Some stores already fill their shelfs with locally grown products.

2. More stores are providing biodegradable bags.

3. Locally grown products are healthier.

Research Questions7. Identify additional keywords and subjects

you need to learn more about.

Eco-friendly Telling beginners how to start going green

Healthy options at the store

Recycling How not eating healthy leads to obesity

Shipping industries

How to spread the word Overhead, what it takes to run a super market vs. overhead of a farm.

Supply and Demand

Research8. Visit the subject guide on the library website:

http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/. List the areas relevant to your working thesis.

Marketing Industry Research Environmental Sciences & Resource Planning

Crop and Soil Sciences Natural Resources Human Development

Horticulture Food sciences Human Nutrition

Be Radical9. Rewrite your working thesis as an imperative

with exaggeration.

1. Without a varity of local farm fresh products in the supermarkets people will become obese.

Be More Radical10. Say it again.

1.Americans will become obese and unhealthy, if they do not have fresh healthy products that are locally grown in their super markets.

Draw It Out