In-class notes about sources and templates

Incorporating Sources/other’s ideas into your own writing/ideas

Summarize/explain the claims/thoughts of others

                She demonstrates that….

1.        Michael Pollen, the author of “Corn Conquest,” demonstrates that basically everything is made of corn.   

2.       Pollen also states that because we consume so much corn, we are essentially becoming corn ourselves. 

3.       A narrator in Food, Inc. states, “The industry doesn’t want you to know… or else you wouldn’t want to eat”

4.       According to a narrator in Food, Inc., “…”

Agreements:

Michael Pollen, the author of “Corn Conquest,” demonstrates that basically everything is made of corn.   Pollen also states that because we consume so much corn, we are essentially becoming corn ourselves.  I agree that so many things being made of corn is an issue because my friend’s experience being sick from eating too much corn confirms that.

Michael Pollen, the author of “Corn Conquest,” demonstrates that basically everything is made of corn.   Pollen also states that because we consume so much corn, we are essentially becoming corn ourselves. I agree that “we are made of corn,” a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe that it doesn’t matter what we eat.

Disagreements:

Michael Pollen, the author of “Corn Conquest,” demonstrates that basically everything is made of corn.   Pollen also states that because we consume so much corn, we are essentially becoming corn ourselves.  I think Pollen is mistaken because he overlooks popular brands like Laura Scudders that do not use corn. 

               

Pollen’s claim that “we are made of corn” rests upon the questionable assumption that we eat too much corn. 

Okay, but:

A narrator in Food, Inc. states, “The industry doesn’t want you to know… or else you wouldn’t want to eat.” What they don’t want us to know is the process in which the food is made.   Whereas Food, Inc. provides ample evidence that shows the process that had been hidden, I am convinced that this is not a major problem because I eat McDonalds everyday and am very healthy. 

Though Food, Inc. is right that the FDA should have the power to shut down food corporations that do not meet standards, the movie seems on more dubious (questionable, uncertain, a bit dishonest) ground when one of its narrators claims that any increase in sales of organic foods is a good thing. 

Parenthetical citation/labeling

A narrator in Food, Inc. states, “The industry doesn’t want you to know… or else you wouldn’t want to eat” (Food, Inc).

He says “we are made of corn” (Pollen 290).