Essay 2 Assignment

Intersections: Food, Culture, and Society
Rough Draft Due: Wednesday, May 4th

Sources:
--"The BP Oil Spill and the Bounty of Plaquemines Parish" / Gastronomica
--"Mauritania’s ‘wife-fattening’ farm / CR
--"The Cabmen’s Cafes" / CR
--Super Size Me / Morgan Spurlock / documentary
--"Snacking With the Sons of the Soil" / Gastronomica (current issue)
--"The Wages of Sin" / handout

Relevant Handouts / Other Info:
Summary Handout (CR)
What is a Primary Source? (CR)
Critical Questions (CR)
Tips for Evaluating Sources (CR)
Formulating a Thesis (CR)
Class notes, freewrites, in-class exercises and discussions, and blog posts

Assignment:
The goal is to write a 5-7 page persuasive research paper in which you use evidence from your research to explain how and why food is connected to different dimensions within the social or cultural realm. A persuasive research paper’s goal is to use research findings to help your reader take a side on a particular issue or to get them to understand a side/point of view that is different from their own. In this case, you will choose 3 of the above sources, read them critically and closely, then use those research findings to support your idea about the intersection(s) between food, culture, and/or society. You need to take a side with this essay and then find evidence to support your position.

Documentation:
--Use in-text parenthetical source citations with page numbers
--Include a MLA-style Works Cited page at the end of your paper (use easybib.com)

Essay 2 Writing Skills Goals: Summarizing; quoting; paraphrasing; avoiding plagiarism; using parenthetical in-text source citations; citing different types of sources; implementing critical analysis, indicating titles properly.

 Read, on the OWL:

Academic Integrity/MLA Overview: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/1/

Summarizing/Paraphrasing: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/

MLA-Style Citations:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

Sample MLA Essay: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095636_747.pdf