Response Essay
Directions: Write a detailed response to any one of the following essays from They Say/I Say, Chapter 20, “What’s There to Eat?”:
Michael Pollan, Escape from the Western Diet
Olga Khazan, Why Don’t Convenience Stores Sell Better Food?
Mary Maxfield, Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating (student essay)
David Zinczenko, Don’t Blame the Eater
Radley Balko, What You Eat Is Your Business
Michael Moss, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
David H. Freedman, How Junk Food Can End Obesity
Sara Goldrick-Rab, Katharine Broton, Emily Brunjes Colo, Expanding the National School Lunch Program to Higher Education
*Include an introductory paragraph consisting of your thesis statement and well-developed lead-in sentences, at least three or four body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
*At least 500 words
*Include direct quotations from the essay to which you are responding. Failure to meet this requirement will result in a “D” for the assignment
*The essay must be submitted as a Microsoft Word attachment to Blackboard’s Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism–the using of words or ideas of others as one’s own without acknowledgement–is a serious academic offense. Plagiarism can be committed in two ways: either by copying exactly what the writer has said or by summarizing or paraphrasing the ideas as your own. Copying the words or ideas of another without acknowledgment in a piece of written work amounts to an attempt to claim them as one’s own. Such actions will not be tolerated. Where plagiarism is detected in a piece of submitted work it may be considered as academic misconduct and dishonesty. If a student submits a plagiarized essay, the student will immediately receive an “F” for the course. If a student submits an essay found on the Internet (or part/s of an essay or material found on the Internet), the student will fail the course.
I. Introduction
-Identify title and author
Thesis: (My response)
II. Lead-in
Summarize
Quote
Response
III. Lead-in
Summarize
Quote
Response
IV. Lead-in
Summarize
Quote
Response
V. Conclusion
