Answer one of the following two questions.
1. In addition to grain, what have the food corporations decided to feed the cattle, and why? Is this diet the main reason that meat becomes toxic, or one of several reasons? What would be the others?
2. How did the Reagan and Bush administration help the meat corporations first "deregulate" their factories from democratic oversight? How have the meat corporations made sure that the US government will support its business strategies?
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
LIB 110: Revising the Project Document(s)
DOCUMENTS
1. Create a detailed "master plan" with dates and assigned roles. Explain what will be accomplished by each date.
2. Create a "rationale" document that will work for IRB forms.
3. Create a "role sheet" with individual's names and their roles. Print this document. Each individual should sign this document by next class.
DEADLINES:
The Research Determination Form MUST BE READY at the end of class TUESDAY, OCT 11th.
1. Create a detailed "master plan" with dates and assigned roles. Explain what will be accomplished by each date.
2. Create a "rationale" document that will work for IRB forms.
3. Create a "role sheet" with individual's names and their roles. Print this document. Each individual should sign this document by next class.
DEADLINES:
The Research Determination Form MUST BE READY at the end of class TUESDAY, OCT 11th.
Reading Quiz Four: The IBP Revolution
What has been the effect of the IBP revolution on worker safety? Why hasn't OSHA stepped in? (4-7 sentences). Give examples from the text to support your answers.
Essay Assignment Two
ENG 101: Essay Two
Dr. Justin Rogers-Cooper
Essay Title: The Feelings That Make Fast Food
See Syllabus for important dates
Length: 4-5 pages (minimum 750 words)
Goal: To write an essay that (1) uses investigative research to (2) discover the feelings on the long assembly line of fast food so that (3) students can communicate original arguments about the emotional facts of fast food production.
Description: It can be argued that corporations influence consumers to buy their food products by creating positive feelings about their brands, and also about the act of consumption itself. This is certainly true of the fast food industry, and to that end we examined the production of “brand essence” in the first assignment. This essay asks you to consider the “feelings” at earlier stages of the assembly line.
With Fast Food Nation as your inspiration, this essay asks you to become your own investigative researcher. Your assignment is to research the feelings that arise during the production of fast food. The stages of food production that you will research will be the fast food kitchen and the CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeing Operations) – the factory farms. The feelings that you find could come from the workers, the supervisors, the “growers” or ranchers, or the animals.
Your argumentative/thesis statement will be present in your introduction. It will communicate to your readers what feelings you found in your research, and will explain what you believe is the significance of those findings.
Research Agenda
For the essay, you will research fast food kitchens, CAFOs, and/or other growing/ranching sites where fast food has its origins. Narrow your research by asking the following question: what feelings are made here?
Your goal is communicate to readers who is feeing what, why they are feeling that way, what causes those feelings, what effect those feelings have, and why these feelings might be significant.
You must find at least one source for every location that you research. For example, you should find a source on
**fast food kitchens
** a source on CAFOs,
** and/or a source on ranchers/growers.
You may use Fast Food Nation or the film Food, Inc. as a source for this assignment, but you must find at least two other sources, including one academic/peer reviewed source. There is no limit to sources that a student can use.
The minimum sources a student must include are two academic sources other than Fast Food Nation and Food, Inc.
We will also use our library visit ON TUESDAY 10/25 from 9.15-10.15 am as an opportunity to review and learn techniques for research. Students are also strongly encouraged to visit a fast food restaurant first-hand to observe how feelings are made there.
Interviews with workers are possible, but students must incur the risks of this investigative strategy on their own. They are *not* required, although some students have found them useful in the past.
Students with personal experience are strongly encouraged to use them in their essays (especially introductions and conclusions), but they will *not* substitute for academic sources.
Introduction
The essay requires that you produce a statement in your introduction that clarifies, defines, and explains what you see as the major relationship between the feelings of two different places in the chain of production and consumption that makes fast food possible. In this statement, you will have to say what your research means, and use the rest of the essay to support this idea.
Thesis: The important 2-3 sentence argumentative statement in the introduction that provides a map of what follows in the essay.
Topic Sentences/Topic centered paragraphs: Topic sentences should describe what follows in the paragraph.
Transitions: Sentences that link paragraphs in the essay together.
Peer Review: Students that miss peer review must take their essays to the Writing Center.
Writing Center: Students are strongly encouraged to attend the Writing Center, but will not receive extra credit.
Grading Grid
Essay incorporates a minimum of two original research sources with proper quote integration, in-text citations, and works cited page (20%)
1 5 6 7 8 9 10
Essay explains two different stages of the assembly line and organizes a coherent thesis statement how feelings are made, by who, for what purpose, and what their effects are (30%)
1 5 6 7 8 9 10
Essay contains a 2-3 sentence “critical thinking” explanations in several research paragraphs that fully explain the significance of feelings discovered in research (20%)
1 5 6 7 8 9 10
Essay contains a revised sense of organization (topic sentences, unified paragraphs, transitions) (20%)
1 5 6 7 8 9 10
Essay contains a revised sense of style at the sentence level (free from major grammatical issues, has awareness of sentence boundaries) (10%)
1 5 6 7 8 9 10
Monday, October 3, 2011
Issues from the Letters
Issues from the Letters:
1. conclusions/concluding paragraphs
2. Many people said a critical thinking strategy they employed was "explaining quotes." This isn't a strategy we went over in class.
3. paraphrasing
4. People revealed problems getting "stuck" or "overthinking" during the introduction
5. the problem of "repetition"
Highlights:
"To be honest with you my writing process was endless. With what I started out with at least 50% of it has changed over the period. Everyday or every other day I would edit sentences, change words, move paragraphs and subtract paragraphs also. It seemed endless. At times I got frustrated because I wanted to make my writing stand out, while keeping it simple and sticking to the topic. So what I found was easiest was writing each paragraph like we did in class following the same guidelines. Instead of doing the entire essay, I found that when I did the essay paragraph by paragraph I had stronger topic sentences, and more organized details and somewhat of a better flow to each paragraph. Throughout this process I also made a lot of minor errors...
I worked with two other people for Peer Review and it went great. The two people found a lot of small errors which were important. One helped me fix two of my run ons. And another helped me establish a new idea to my thesis that made a world of sense to me."
***
"My essay evolved a lot over the past three weeks. I had to change my opening paragraph a lot. I had to put a brief summary about what the reader was going to be reading about and also give them a little information about the author. Being that I kept on adding more information and discussing more topics, I would go back to my first paragraph and make sure that its been told that I was going to be discussing that topic."
1. conclusions/concluding paragraphs
2. Many people said a critical thinking strategy they employed was "explaining quotes." This isn't a strategy we went over in class.
3. paraphrasing
4. People revealed problems getting "stuck" or "overthinking" during the introduction
5. the problem of "repetition"
Highlights:
"To be honest with you my writing process was endless. With what I started out with at least 50% of it has changed over the period. Everyday or every other day I would edit sentences, change words, move paragraphs and subtract paragraphs also. It seemed endless. At times I got frustrated because I wanted to make my writing stand out, while keeping it simple and sticking to the topic. So what I found was easiest was writing each paragraph like we did in class following the same guidelines. Instead of doing the entire essay, I found that when I did the essay paragraph by paragraph I had stronger topic sentences, and more organized details and somewhat of a better flow to each paragraph. Throughout this process I also made a lot of minor errors...
I worked with two other people for Peer Review and it went great. The two people found a lot of small errors which were important. One helped me fix two of my run ons. And another helped me establish a new idea to my thesis that made a world of sense to me."
***
"My essay evolved a lot over the past three weeks. I had to change my opening paragraph a lot. I had to put a brief summary about what the reader was going to be reading about and also give them a little information about the author. Being that I kept on adding more information and discussing more topics, I would go back to my first paragraph and make sure that its been told that I was going to be discussing that topic."
Letter to Professor: Blogs and Twitter
Did you complete blog assignment one?
Did you complete blog assignment two? If so, explain your strategy for completing the blog. If not, what was the largest obstacle to you completing the blog?
Do you have an account with Twitter? If so, have you used your account? If you have used your account, how would you describe the Tweeting process? If you haven't used your account, why not?
If you don't have an account with Twitter, why is that?
How often do you check the main blog page for this course? Do you think you would feel more knowledgeable about the class if you did? Why or why not?
Did you complete blog assignment two? If so, explain your strategy for completing the blog. If not, what was the largest obstacle to you completing the blog?
Do you have an account with Twitter? If so, have you used your account? If you have used your account, how would you describe the Tweeting process? If you haven't used your account, why not?
If you don't have an account with Twitter, why is that?
How often do you check the main blog page for this course? Do you think you would feel more knowledgeable about the class if you did? Why or why not?
Letter To Professor: Assignment One
If you are turning in your first assignment today, please answer the following questions: How would you describe your writing process for this essay (in other words, how did the draft evolve over the past three weeks)? Did you workshop your essay in Peer Review? How many suggestions did you incorporate from Peer Review? What kind of critical thinking strategies did you employ in your paragraphs, and why do you think they're effective? How confident are you in the essay? What do you think is still the largest problem with the essay? What will you do differently next time, for assignment two?
If you do not have an essay to turn in today, please answer the following questions: What is the reason you don't have your essay today? At what point in your writing process did you realize you couldn't complete the assignment? What actions did you take when you realized this? Did you workshop your essay in Peer Review? If so, did you revise the essay after the Peer Review? If not, why didn't you bring an essay to Peer Review? How many hours a week are you working? Do you have any other work responsibilities I should know about? How many hours a week do you spend on television, internet, socializing, and other non-education related activities? Are you confident that you're spending enough time on your education, or is another factor involved? What is the factor, or what are the factors?
If you do not have an essay to turn in today, please answer the following questions: What is the reason you don't have your essay today? At what point in your writing process did you realize you couldn't complete the assignment? What actions did you take when you realized this? Did you workshop your essay in Peer Review? If so, did you revise the essay after the Peer Review? If not, why didn't you bring an essay to Peer Review? How many hours a week are you working? Do you have any other work responsibilities I should know about? How many hours a week do you spend on television, internet, socializing, and other non-education related activities? Are you confident that you're spending enough time on your education, or is another factor involved? What is the factor, or what are the factors?
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