Gather research for an essay about one of the topics explored in Fast Food Nation.
Specifically, your assignment must show that you have a strong research
question and at least five sources that might help you answer that
question. You won’t actually draft your essay until Lesson 2, however.
A research question will give your research a clear
goal. Each source you find should have the potential to answer at least
part of the research question and bring you closer to understanding the
issue that you’ve decided to explore. Your assignment will list these
sources on an annotated works-cited page.
Your assignment should include the following elements:
- A research question related to a topic that Eric Schlosser explores in Fast Food Nation
- A works-cited page that lists at least five sources with the potential to answer the research question
- An annotation for each entry on the works-cited page that summarizes
the source’s purpose, evaluates its credibility, and explains how it is
related to your research question
This writing guide will help you write a rough draft of the writing assignment that you will revise later on.
Plan an expository essay by creating a research
question about a topic addressed in the lesson’s reading and by
conducting research to help answer that question. To do this, you will
complete the following steps:
1. Write a research question about any topic that Schlosser addresses in Fast Food Nation.
2. Find five sources that help answer the research question in some way (one of which may be Fast Food Nation itself).
3. Provide your sources in a works-cited list that follows MLA guidelines.
4. Write a short paragraph next to each source that does the following:
a. Summarizes the purpose of the source (“This source argues that fast food has benefited the country overall.”)
b. Evaluates its credibility (“This source is not
very credible because it does not list an author or state where it got
its information.”)
c. Explains how it helps answer the research
question (“This source has no information about salmonella, which is my
topic, but it does give information about E. coli, which might still be useful.”)
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