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Due date: February 10
Essay 2 (500 words) will be an argument synthesis paper concerning any of the topics brought up
in Fast Food Nation. (I have included some ideas for prompts, but if you would like to write
about another issue, then let me know.) Use only your book. DO NOT USE OTHER
SOURCES. Read the helpful Writing and Research Handbooks pages 25-38 and/or MLA
Formatting and Style Guide from the OWL. This time in your essay, you will use information
youve obtained from the book to support your argument. You must include at least three quotes
and at least three paraphrases from the book. You must include MLA in-text citations
(parenthetical references) after using quotes or paraphrases, but you do not have to include a
works cited page.
Possible prompts for Essay 2:
1. Fast food companies hire more teenagers than any other business in the U.S. They have
often been accused of not training their young employees sufficiently. Do you agree or
disagree? Provide plenty of evidence from the book to support your argument.
2. Like many American industries, the meatpacking industry changed its way of business
and shifted to a cheaper source of labor, ending a decades-long association with unions
that protected workers by demanding safe working conditions and decent wages. Argue
for or against this practice.
3. In Chapter 5, Why the Fries Taste Good, Schlosser tells us about the flavor industry
and its role in processed food. Do you think food companies need to be more honest
about the ingredients they use? Why or why not?
Some important features of Essay 2:
1. Use signal phrases to set up each quote. See link under directions for Essay 2.
2. Summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing must be documented using MLA
3. Organization of argument must be clear
4. A balance of your ideas and ideas from your sources must exist
5. Counterarguments must be summarized, discussed, and refuted (responded to)
6. Logical fallacies must be avoided; authors logical fallacies must be discussed
7. As with Essay 1, use MLA formatting. The link is under the directions for Essay 1.
MLA in-text citations, also called parenthetical references, are very important. Here are a few
examples of using them with quoting and paraphrasing:
Paraphrase (idea/information from source, but put into your own words):
Since Hurricane Katrina, Social Services said there are about six thousand more homeless
people in New Orleans (Saulny 2). **Notice the last name of the author and the page
number where the information was found are both included. Notice the parentheses, and
notice that the punctuation comes after the last parenthesis. This is considered a
paraphrase because the student writer put the information into her own words.
Quote (exact wording of author):
One writer has the right idea: Solutions need to start at the grassroots, but we now have
models that can be followed nationally (Smith 2). **This quote is preceded by a signal
phrase that makes it clear that the writer agrees with the quote. Always introduce a quote
with a signal phrase; never have a quote just sitting there on its own, which would make
it a freestanding quote. The quote is in quotation marks because it is the exact wording of
the author.
His intent is to take homeless policy from the old idea of funding programs that serve
homeless people endlessly and invest in results that actually end homelessness
(Gladwell 8). **This is a quote that is integrated with a paraphrase.
According to FEMA spokesman Ronnie Simpson, Its the individuals responsibility to
go out and find whats suitable for them (qtd. in Saulny 3). **This is quote within an
article, meaning that the author, Saulny, interviewed Ronnie Simpson, and is quoting him
in her piece. The student writer used this quote in his own essay, and to let us know that
it is not Saulnys words, he used qtd. in in front of the authors name and page number.
Fast food companies have often been accused of not training their young employees sufficiently. To support your argument, people often cite the example of how fast food companies don’t provide adequate training for the teenagers who work in them. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Provide plenty of evidence from the book to support your argument.
You have probably heard that fast food corporations are not training their young employees sufficiently.
Many people believe that this is an issue, but some people disagree with this claim.
Please give us some evidence from the book to support your argument.
Fast food companies, like McDonald’s and Burger King, have been accused of not providing adequate training for their young employees.
However, this is not the same thing as providing education or training. The fast food industry does not have to provide any kind of formal education to its employees; therefore, it cannot be said that they aren’t trained at all. They do require workers to complete high school but there are no requirements beyond that point (and even then some states only require high school graduates).
Many people believe that fast food companies do not adequately train their young employees. Fast food chains often cite the example of how fast food companies don’t provide adequate training for the teenagers who work in them.
Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Provide plenty of evidence from the book to support your argument.
Fast food companies have been accused of not training their young employees sufficiently. To support your argument, people often cite the example of how fast food companies don’t provide adequate training for the teenagers who work in them. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Provide plenty of evidence from the book to support your argument.
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