Essay 1 Sample MLA Format and Works Cited
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Essay 1 Prompt and Directions
Background Information:
The American diet and agricultural practices have changed dramatically in recent decades. Industrial agriculture has changed our environment, diet, health, food choices and impacted many other surprising aspects of American life.
Prompt:
You will write an essay that explores some of the problems that have arisen within our food system and what has caused them. The negative impacts are far reaching and broad, so you should limit your focus to three or four main issues about which you have a variety of information.
Requirements:
8. Finally, your paper must include a properly formatted Works Cited page including all sources consulted for the paper.
The American diet and agricultural practices have changed dramatically in recent decades. Industrial agriculture has changed our environment, diet, health, food choices and impacted many other surprising aspects of American life.
Prompt:
You will write an essay that explores some of the problems that have arisen within our food system and what has caused them. The negative impacts are far reaching and broad, so you should limit your focus to three or four main issues about which you have a variety of information.
Requirements:
- The paper should be a minimum of 4 complete pages in length (not including Works Cited page)
- The essay should follow proper MLA formatting guidelines.
- You must make use of a minimum of 4 sources (chapters from Pollan, Leonard, or the films Food Inc. and/or “The Story of Stuff”)
- Each body paragraph must compare/contrast at least two of the works/chapters discussed so far this semester. In other words, how do the works relate thematically or by topic?
- Each body paragraph must contain at least two different pieces of direct evidence from the texts at hand (in the form of direct quotation).
- Your paper must include at least one of each of the following (See the MLA Quoting PowerPoint on the course website):
- A properly formatted block quote
- A properly modified quote
- A quote introduced with a complete sentence and a colon
- A quote introduced by the word “that” or “as”
8. Finally, your paper must include a properly formatted Works Cited page including all sources consulted for the paper.
Essay 2 Guidelines
Essay 3 Guidelines
Background
This course has focused on the pervasive impacts of American capitalism. Consumption, from “stuff” to food to pharmaceuticals, has led our nation and the world down a path of unprecedented productivity. But the growing toxicity of our bodies and planet, and the loss of individualism and choice at the hands of powerful corporations, calls into question this unfettered cycle of production and consumption. Your final essay and project ask that you research a problem caused by or related to consumerism.
The works we read this semester outlined the problems they focused on by explaining their seriousness, discussing their causes and, in their concluding chapters, proposing solutions. This is what you will do for this paper. While you certainly may draw from this course’s readings, the topic you choose should be of particular interest to you, so feel free to think outside of the topics covered in class. Write about what you care about and your paper will be more successful.
Your final essay will explore the topic related to consumerism that you chose to research for your final project. It will accomplish the following:
Requirements
Due
Your essay is due to me in hard copy on the day of our final 6/6/17 at 11am. Please plan on bringing me a hard copy to class that day. Since is the last day we meet, I don't want to risk technology problems when I won't be seeing you again. You will also turn in your PEE chart on the day of the final.
This course has focused on the pervasive impacts of American capitalism. Consumption, from “stuff” to food to pharmaceuticals, has led our nation and the world down a path of unprecedented productivity. But the growing toxicity of our bodies and planet, and the loss of individualism and choice at the hands of powerful corporations, calls into question this unfettered cycle of production and consumption. Your final essay and project ask that you research a problem caused by or related to consumerism.
The works we read this semester outlined the problems they focused on by explaining their seriousness, discussing their causes and, in their concluding chapters, proposing solutions. This is what you will do for this paper. While you certainly may draw from this course’s readings, the topic you choose should be of particular interest to you, so feel free to think outside of the topics covered in class. Write about what you care about and your paper will be more successful.
Your final essay will explore the topic related to consumerism that you chose to research for your final project. It will accomplish the following:
- Your essay should outline the severity of your problem by providing evidence of its effects;
- Your essay should clearly identify how the problem is tied to or related to consumerism;
- Your essay should provide research-based solutions that individuals, corporations, and/or governments can use to end or slow the problem. While you could speculate about what might work, your focus should be on what experts in the field say will work or solutions that are already being put into practice. All of your essays up to now have asked you to speculate about solutions in your conclusion, but now you will need to actually research what is being done, what has been done or what experts are suggesting should be done to solve the problem.
Requirements
- Your essay should be 5-7 pages in length (not including the Works Cited page).
- Your essay should be in MLA format with a proper Works Cited list and citations throughout.
- Your essay must make use of a minimum of 5 sources.
- Your essay should make use of paraphrase, direct quotation and summary, all with appropriate in text citations.
- Body paragraphs should contain at least two pieces of evidence with appropriate citations.
- Evidence should be incorporated in a variety of styles (different types of quote integration, paraphrase and/or summary) to add fluidity and interest to your writing.
- Your essay should be proof read and free from grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and awkward sentences.
Due
Your essay is due to me in hard copy on the day of our final 6/6/17 at 11am. Please plan on bringing me a hard copy to class that day. Since is the last day we meet, I don't want to risk technology problems when I won't be seeing you again. You will also turn in your PEE chart on the day of the final.