TOULMIN ACTIVITY II: MAPPING AN ARGUMENT FOR THE POLICY PAPER (10%)

Note: you are asked to supply either a rebuttal {1 mark} or backing for your warrant {1 mark} and to include a qualifier (marked with the claim)

BACKING (Support for the W)

Provide support for the WARRANT here.
If you decide no support is needed,
Nanosensors(developed from nanotechnology) has been utilized to quickly and easily detect microbes and pathogens in our food. explain your reasoning here.
In the long run, this will help reduce cases of death by food poisoning. {1 mark}

WARRANT (Connection b/n G-C)

Provide a WARRANT that links your

Given the fact that nanotechnology is still in its developmental stage, the chemical and biological effect it would have on the GROUNDS to the CLAIM. Common Ws
human body are yet to be understood. Introducing it into the body system without having any proper understanding, won’t be include: generalizations, analogies,
without a fatal risk. On the other hand, the potential it possesses in the agricultural and food sector cannot be overemphasized as signs, causes, authority, principles/rules
it provides insights on techniques to improve farming mechanisms, food storage and preservation, etc. 3 marks

GROUNDS QUALIFIER CLAIM (Or sub-claim)

So, Nanotechnology should be
1. Nanotechnology is still in its developmental stage focused more on the food and
and as such might pose an unforeseen risk when introduced agricultural sectors, rather than trying to
into the human body improve to the “perfect” human.
2. Food scarcity is becoming a global issue. The use of Nanotechnology should be used to
Nanotechnology would make it easier and faster to deliver improve food crops and not to advance
target minerals to plants, thereby producing crop yields quicker and towards the perfect human
effectively REBUTTAL (Limitations, exceptions, etc.)
3. More often than not, most fertilizers that are used
to improve crop yield contain Hazardous materials which
make them carcinogenic and Cytotoxic in nature. Consumption
of food stuffs grown with such fertilizers would definitely cause Unless
harm to the human body, the use of nanotechnology in place
of fertilizers would go a long way to prevent that. The negative effects outweigh the
Positive effects and nanotechnology is
deemed unsafe for both plant and
human use.
TOULMIN ACTIVITY II: MAPPING AN ARGUMENT FOR THE POLICY PAPER (10%)
Note: you are asked to supply either a rebuttal {1 mark} or backing for your warrant {1 mark} and to include a qualifier (marked with the claim)

3 marks
{1 mark}

3 marks