After reading the Primary Sources reading and Interview reading, post two of your five-ten interview questions on the Class Blog and discuss why they will be effective interview questions and why you are interested in your peers’ answers to the question. Remember that these questions are in relation to Assignment Prompt Two: Interview. Due before class on Wednesday.
After reading the Primary Sources reading and Interview reading, post two of your five-ten interview questions on the Class Blog and discuss why they will be effective interview questions and why you are interested in your peers’ answers to the question. Remember that these questions are in relation to Assignment Prompt Two: Interview. Due before class on Wednesday.
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Professional researcher and writer--and narrator of this video--Michael Pollan, has had great success researching the food industry and promoting sustainable eating habits. This is a fresh take on an old argument--"How to eat Healthy." The video is entertaining and well-made, too.
Since most of you are college freshman and don't cook for yourselves, what do you think about his conclusion that merely cooking at home is the key to healthy eating? By this point, you should have read the reading on opinions from America Now, which you can find on Blackboard under Readings. With the reading at your side, you can get started on this blog post. The first part of your blog post is to post an opinion you hold about health. It should be something worth consideration. For example, "I secretly like Miley Cyrus" is not really worth consideration (and ultimately, writing about, hint, ), but "I like Miley Cyrus because she makes people uncomfortable and inspired a lot of interesting conversation" or "It's good that Miley Cyrus makes us questions what it means to be a young woman in an oversexualized society." Get the idea? These opinions could use some fleshing out, but they are expressing an opinion that someone could disagree with. Once you've decided on your opinion, then, using the section on pages 7 and 8 titled "How Do We Form Opinions?," write which category you think your opinion falls into. This is due Wednesday night at midnight. For the second part, which is to be completed by Thursday night, your task is to reflect on the rhetorical tools in the box on on page 15 titled "How to Support Opinions," as well as the comments following the three sample essays, and choose two rhetorical tools that could be used to support two of your peers opinions. Everyone will respond to two people's posts, and don't load up responses on one post; everyone should have at least one response to their initial post. To clarify, you will not comment on your own post and you will not offer two rhetorical tool suggestions on the same post. Instead, you will offer one rhetorical tool on one peer's opinion post and one on a different peer's opinion post. During the second round of comments, be sure to think about the type of support that opinion would need. For example, it would be inappropriate for me to support the opinion ""I like Miley Cyrus because she makes people uncomfortable and inspired a lot of interesting conversation" by providing statistics about how many people like Miley Cyrus. Statistics aren't going to help support my point. Examples, on the other hand might. I might talk about how in one day I heard a girl in the airport wondering what had happened to good old Hannah Montana, hypothesizing that she just couldn't handle the pressure of being good all the time. On that same day, the MSNBC was discussing whether outcries over Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke VMA's performance wasn't highlighting a double standard on who is allowed to cross the line of sexual crudeness. The goal of this exercise is to get everyone thinking about applicable support. Side note: I think it's interesting that when I tried to find an image for this blog post, I started typing in "What happened to" and by the time I typed the first half of "happened," Google's first auto-finish option was "Miley Cyrus." I wonder if any of you have opinions on Google... If you are confused about an assignment or are in need of help, chances are one of your classmates is in the same boat. So instead of emailing me, go ahead and post your question on here and either myself one of your classmates will weigh in. Of course, if you need to email me about something you don't want the rest of the class knowing, please do not hesitate to do so.
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