+1 862 207 3288 English 126: Essay #2: Omnivore’s Dilemma Assignment (15%)
Two draft versions of your introduction. You may want to complete this paper earlier, though, since the third essay will be due shortly
afterwards. This paper should be 5-6 pages long. Please type the essay in 12 point font, double spaced, with 1” margins all around.
•Limit the scope of you paper. You need to make sure you have a thesis statement, which is a central argument in your introductory
paragraph which you support throughout the essay, and which you revisit in your conclusion.
•Close analysis of specific passages from texts, use of quotations from the text, observations, personal experience, etc. are important.
Use MLA format for documenting sources. Include a Works Cited page at the end of your essay, including the book and your outside sources,
if any.
•Part of your grade for each essay includes the writing process: posting drafts, commenting on peers’ work (posted on peer editing
discussion group), and revising, according to course deadlines. If you have used any outside sources, submit a page from each outside
source with your final essay (screenshot, scan, or link).
• No Plagiarism! Do not copy your essay or any phrases in your essay from the web or any other source, unless you use quotations and give
proper bibliographic citations..
THIS IS THE QUESTION
Choice 2: Research on a “Thread”
Choose a particular chapter or chapters, or a particular thread of inquiry, such as the cattle industry, the poultry industry, the hidden
costs of industrial farming, local vs. industrial organic farming, fast food, the ethics of eating animals, the meaning of food in our
lives, etc. (topics thanks to Professor Mikolavich).
Analyze this topic as Pollan presents it in The Omnivore’s Dilemma and draw upon two reputable outside sources (ideally from the library
or library electronic databases) to further develop on this topic. This topic requires two outside sources in addition to The Omnivore’s
Dilemma.
At least half of your essay should draw upon and analyze material from The Omnivore’s Dilemma, such as illustrations of how “the health of
these animals is inextricably linked to our own by that web of relationships,” ecological connections and the food chain (81).
Your overall analysis needs to be organized like a conventional, unified essay—with an introduction, thesis that ties together your major
points, analysis of quotes from the texts, and a conclusion restating and tying up your thesis.
Your overall analysis needs to be organized like a conventional, unified essay—with an introduction, thesis that ties together your major
points, analysis of quotes from the texts, and a conclusion restating and tying up your thesis. In describing your meal, though, you may
venture more into the narrative, storytelling mode.
