Plan Your Life with An Agriculture Term Paper
Plan Your Life with An Agriculture Term Paper
My junior year in high school the school counselors had the brilliant idea to give everyone a career development test. I didn’t understand how some bozo siting in a room making up a bunch of really silly questions could figure out what my future career would be. After you found out you had to write a term paper on it. I didn’t buy it. My friend Michael swore by it. He kept telling me how four years ago this test predicted that his cousin Betty would become a an insurance salesman and that was exactly what she was doing now. I thought he was cray but since freshman year that was all he could talk about. He really believed this test was the end all be all. Michael was eager to know what he would be doing with the rest of his life. I really tried to get him to see that there was no possible way a series of questions could predict the future. He would let nothing deter him from thinking that the following week he would know exactly know what his major in college would be. I laughed at him as the days approached but I couldn’t shake him. He was so excited the morning we were to take the test. I told him I would meet him at lunch to talk about it. That afternoon, as I was eating my pizza, Michael threw his tray down with such force I almost spit out my food. He stared at me dead in the face and said. “I am going to be a farmer.” Michael was going to have to write an agriculture term paper.
I couldn’t help but laugh at Michael. Honestly he was doomed to be a doctor or a scientist. There was no way he would ever be a farmer. Michael really saw this as the end of the world. He kept asking himself rhetorical questions. “What have I been working so hard for?” “What does science have to do with farming?” I tried to reassure him that it was just a stupid test. But he would have none of it. He decided to the do the best he could on his agriculture term paper.
Michael quickly went to work. Doing some strong critical analysis research on farming. He interviewed some farmers and learned that science actually played quite a big role in farming. He compiled a bunch of live sources as well as periodicals and books.
My career development test was dead on. It said I would be a journalist. As a writer I wanted to help Michael write the best agriculture term paper he could. I gave him the following tips.
1. Write clearly and concisely
2. Try to remain unbiased and present positives and negatives
3. Develop a clear thesis
4. Finish your research paper strong.
5. Site all sources even people you interview
6. Have fun. This paper is really for you.
Michael spent a solid week writing his agriculture term paper. Initially he had felt that being a farmer was too blue collar and too menial for him. But after researching and spending days on his term paper he felt that perhaps being a farmer may be something he wanted to do. He found it to be a very respectable and profitable profession and something he may want to go into.
