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Rhetoric and Composition

Research Inquiry

2019

Vaccines

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Are Vaccines The Key To Alzheimer’S Treatment? (2019-2020), Myia Tyler Jan 2019

Are Vaccines The Key To Alzheimer’S Treatment? (2019-2020), Myia Tyler

Research Inquiry

In this research inquiry, Tyler uses a metacognitive style of reflection walking the reader through her personal connections to topic selection and research process before presenting what she discovered in medical journal articles on the topic of using vaccines for Alzheimer’s treatment and prevention. In closely reviewing journal articles and their findings, Tyler is able to make comments about the challenges of developing a vaccine appropriate to humans (as opposed to the mice trials she reads about,) and the complexity of high failure rates in the past. Finally, Tyler comments on the financial issues involved in this treatment plan and …