Essay #2
Oct 18th, 2009 by Mary Louise Penaz
Essay #2: Food and Ethics
Ethics is defined as a way of dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and result or outcome of such actions.
Prompt: After reading the essays “Consider the Lobster” and “Kosher Wars” what specific evidence can you find that supports a relationship between food and ethics—including the handling of animals and the ethical relationship we have with them and the eventual outcome of food quality?
Format: In fairness to everyone, essays must be formatted in the exact same way. Refer to the formatting procedures for “First page of MLA paper” in The Little, Brown Handbook. If you do not format properly, your essay will be handed back to you and considered late until it has been correctly formatted. Essays should be 4 pages minimum, double-spaced, 12 Roman font, paginated, and stapled. You must have a correctly formatted works cited page included with your paper to get credit.
Quality: Your essay should contain a compelling, college-level thesis and several well-developed and college-level paragraphs that support that thesis and reflect the description above for close reading. Paragraphs must be shaped and conform to the MLA version of a college-level paragraph. You must use college-level concepts in essay.
Content: You must use at least six (6) quotes in your essay and identify at least four (4) ways that the authors use ethics to evaluate their involvement with animals as food. At least two (2) examples of ethics from each essay.
Copies of original essays: You must hand-in your marked-up copy of both “Consider the Lobster” and “Kosher Wars” in order to get credit for this paper. These will be evaluated separately but considered as part of the total score for the assignment.
Peer-review Workshops: You must show up for workshops with two copies of rough drafts or you will be marked absent. Participation in these workshops are very important to your overall grade.
Final Due Date: You must include a copy of your first rough draft with my notes on it and it must be stapled to your final draft on due date.
As always, I am available during office hours and by appointment. Please come see me with a rough draft of your paper so we can discuss how to improve it.
Best of Luck!