Fast Food Nation Summary-Response Assignment

Length: 500 to 750 words and a works cited page First draft due: Friday, Dec. 1st

Total Points: 150 points Final draft due: Monday, Dec. 4th

Assignment

Organization Begin your essay with a summary of a topic from Fast Food Nation as PARAGRAPH 1. Provide

a general idea of what the source is about and the points you intend to address in your response.

Avoid including any extraneous material. The summary should be no longer than a page; it may

be briefer.

Place your thesis statement at the end of the summary or at the beginning of the response. After

reading your thesis statement, your audience should be able to predict the form and content of

the rest of your essay.

Your response should be PARAGRAPH 2 and could be one to two pages in length. It should

include reasons and details that support your thesis statement.

In your conclusion, tie together the main points of your essay, relate them to the thesis, and

discuss any implications of your conclusion.

Works Cited Include a works cited entry, on a separate page, for any source you use.

Submission Requirements o Bring a rough draft to class with you on Friday. PRINT IT OUT BEFORE CLASS. DO

NOT TRY TO PRINT IT OUT DURING CLASS.

o Along with the rough draft, bring 5 Questions to use during peer revision.

o Email the final draft to me on Monday, before midnight.

This assignment gives you the opportunity not only to show that you understand source material but also to express what you think about the ideas it includes. The audience for this summary- response comprises your classmates and me, but it is always helpful when writing a summary- response to think of readers that may not have read the original text. By imagining an uninformed reader, you will be sure to include sufficient information in your summary. You may respond to the source text in a variety of ways. You may use personal experiences and reactions; evaluate the currency, thoroughness, and reliability of the sources; or examining the internal logic of the source. However, the most important response we have to this book is to evaluate the relevance and the changes to this fast food nation over the past 15 years since the book was first published. An important response would to support or challenge an argument of Schlosser based on the changes over the past 15 years. You must incorporate other sources as part of your response. For this assignment, you will be summarizing and responding to an important claim that Schlosser makes as part of his argument regarding our fast food nation. You must focus on an issue from chapters 4 through 10 of Fast Food Nation. You will need to use at least one secondary source to provide support for your response.

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Grading Criteria: Your paper will be graded according to the following criteria. Plagiarism will

result in a failing grade for the paper and perhaps for the course as well.

Criteria Points

SUMMARY

___ The summary refers to the author and title of the source.

___ The summary refers to the main idea, question, or problem discussed.

___ The source is summarized responsibly and purposefully.

___ The summary is objective.

___ Paraphrases and quoted material are used purposefully.

___ The summary includes the key ideas and significant details that relate to your response.

/30

RESPONSE

___ The thesis statement responds to the material summarized and serves as a governing idea for the

rest of the paper.

___ Key points are presented logically and supported by convincing details.

(Be sure to make every step of your reasoning clear.)

___ The conclusion ties together main points and relates them to the thesis. When appropriate,

implications of the conclusion are also discussed.

___ The response is supported appropriately with relevant details from a secondary source.

/40

COMPLETENESS AND FORMATTING

___ Source material is cited according to MLA guidelines.

___ A works-cited entry is provided.

___ The paper is formatted according to MLA guidelines.

___ Submission requirements are met: emailed on time.

/25

PRE-WRITING AND RESEARCH

___ Notes taken prior to writing summary.

___ Notes show organization and planning.

___ Evidence can be shown of the use of the writing process

/25

EDITING AND PROOFREADING

___ A peer-review has been completed.

___ The writing employs words and sentence structures appropriate to the demands of the rhetorical

situation.

___ The essay is coherent and unified.

___ The essay is free of proofreading errors.

/30

TOTAL: The grade is based on the essay itself as well as your use of the writing process

/150

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