ForFor my research essay, I will discuss how caffeine is categorized as an addictive drug that can easily be obtained in everyday life. Becoming addictive could be formatted in any shape or form psychologically. Whether it is towards gambling, playing video games, or some behavior that makes us feel euphoric. However, caffeine by itself looks like white powder which has a similar appearance to heroin. Even though heroin and caffeine are two opposites of the spectrum, they both fall under the same line of being addictive.
Five Sources:
Background: This blog is about the interaction between the interviewer, Monique Savin, and the interviewee, Jian Ghomeshi, CBC radio host, talking about how Ghomeshi dropped an addiction to caffeine products and started working out. Ghomeshi spoke about his struggles with consuming caffeine and how caffeine affects his health.
How I intend to use it: I wanted to use this blog as a real-life example for my research essay to show how caffeine can affect certain people.
Background: This article explains how researchers are studying the effects of caffeine, and how caffeine can be an addictive drug in their hypothesis. Researchers found the effects of caffeine on different human body parts such as the brain.
How I intend to use it: This article has provided me with a list of consumer goods such as different types of soft drinks, coffee, tea, and other products that have caffeine in them. I’ll be using the image to show my readers my point of how easily we can get caffeine in our everyday lives. Not only that but the researchers provide a definitive answer of whether or not caffeine is an addictive drug or not.
3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014829631930548X?via%3Dihub#section-cited-by.
Background: This article shows us a report by two researchers, Mona Mirad, and Charles Chi Cui, about another type of psychological addiction which is compulsive buying, and brand buying.
How I intend to use it: I wanted to present this article to support my definition of addiction, and how either compulsive buying or brand addiction can be a factor in caffeine addiction since most products are bought through stores legally.
4. https://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/fst/article/view/14592
Background: This article is a report from a group of researchers who studied caffeine consumption, and how they found a strong link between caffeine consumption and age. The sample size of the population that the researchers used is Kinnard College in Pakistan where tea is the most consumed product in the country.
How I intend to use it: This report has provided me with statistics on caffeine consumption through younger generations which helps prove that consuming caffeine at a younger age can cause us to become addicted as we get older. Not only that, but the report has provided me with a demographic table of the sample size of the population which I can use to support my causal and to show different reasons why people consume caffeine.
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The TOPIC is intriguing, GamersPet, but the THESIS is super murky. You seem to be casting a very wide net to catch anything that might involve student interactivity or “engagement” compared to . . . what, exactly? A classic 200-student lecture hall addressed from a podium by a single professor with a chalkboard?
I don’t get much sense of what you’re driving at in your explanations of your sources except that they all hint at somehow acting, as compared to, I think, listening.
It’s so vague that I can’t tell whether, to take an example, my in-class challenge to share your personal practices when asked for money by a panhandler, and then inviting you to respond to your classmates’ Comments would qualify as “digital,” or “engaging,” or “collaborative.” If you could pass judgment on that question, I might better understand your terms.
It’s early for me to expect you to have a definitive Thesis to defend of course, GP, but there’s no benefit to delaying the questions I have asked. The sooner you focus your attention on a narrow question that can be adequately addressed in 3000 words, the better.
What, for example, do you mean by THESE explanations of the source you cite?:
It’s not just the terms that are squishy, GP. Your verbs don’t communicate anything clearly.
—”possible factors towards the variables”?
—”feedbacks increase positively towards self-concept”?
—”engagement comes into factors of thinking”?
What do they mean?
Causal Argument HW:
1.) Caffeine Makes Us Addictive
2.) Caffeine Addiction Accumulates in Younger and Older Generations
3.) Buying and Consuming Caffeine Products Makes Us Feel Euphoric
4.) Drinking Too Much Caffeine Causes Mental Health Risk
5.) Gender is Not Correlate with Caffeine Addiction
Thank you for the update, GamersPet.
I find this material easier to follow than your original hypothesis sources.
However, your claims aren’t nearly clear enough. Some examples:
Ghomeshi spoke about his struggles with consuming caffeine and how caffeine affects his health.
—Avoid ANY “talked about” or “writes about” language, which only describes a TOPIC and says nothing about the CLAIMS made.
—Ghomeshi might have disliked the taste of coffee. He might have developed a rash from taking caffeine in pill form. He might have disliked the “edgy” feeling it gave him.
—In other words, we have NO IDEA what Ghomeshi’s struggles were or what the affects of caffeine were on his health.
—Your further explanation, “to show how caffeine can affect certain people” does not resolve our confusion at all.
how researchers are studying the effects of caffeine, and how caffeine can be an addictive drug in their hypothesis.
—All HOW language is confusing. Are you really using this source to describe HOW RESEARCHERS STUDY? In other words, will you describe their methodology?
—Do you mean HOW caffeine can be addictive, or THAT it can be addictive?
researchers provide a definitive answer of whether or not caffeine is an addictive drug or not.
—Well, is it?
another type of psychological addiction which is compulsive buying, and brand buying.
—This will be helpful if you’re claiming that addiction to caffeine is A PSYCHOLOGICAL addiction, but you haven’t said so. If it’s addictive, is the addiction chemical, biological, or psychological?
my definition of addiction, and how either compulsive buying or brand addiction can be a factor in caffeine addiction
—In just a few words, you could give us a hint what your current Definition IS, but you don’t.
—A compulsion to buy COFFEE could be quite different from a compulsion to buy STARBUCKS coffee, right?
4. https://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/fst/article/view/14592
a strong link between caffeine consumption and age
—What could they find out about caffeine and age by confining their study to a college campus?
—Did they compare students to students, or students to faculty?
—Any details that would give us a hint to the actual findings would be helpful.