The purpose of this discussion is to give you an opportunity to develop relationships with your peers, develop your critical reading skills, and practice evaluating sources and integrating information from sources into your own writing.

The purpose of this discussion is to give you an opportunity to develop relationships with your peers, develop your critical reading skills, and practice evaluating sources and integrating information from sources into your own writing.

SKILLS

This discussion will help you practice the following skills:

applying your critical reading strategies by learning from the interpretations of others;

integrating information from sources into your own writing;

distinguishing your writing and thinking from the writing and thinking of others by using integration best practices, like attributive tags;

composing initial responses that address the prompt in full; and

responding substantively to your peers’ posts.

KNOWLEDGE:

understand the importance of community in successful learning environments; and

evaluating the credibility of your own views and the views of others.

Task

Please post a 2-minute audio recording, a 2-minute video recording, or a 300-word written response to the following question regarding your reading in The Omnivore’s Dilemma. These are minimums. You can always post a longer response.

Make specific reference to the text, your own experience, and other readings to support your response. This question is a starting point for our discussion of this text. Once you have made your initial response, you make take the discussion in other directions.

Throughout the work Pollan attempts to make his research relatable by relaying it through the narrative of his own experiences. Discuss whether you find the work relatable to your own life.

After you have posted your initial response to one of the questions, please respond to at least three of your peers’ posts by Sunday.

PROCESS

Post your initial response by Wednesday.

Read all of your classmates’ posts (that were posted by Wednesday).

Reply to at least three of these posts by Sunday. Make reference to something that was mentioned in that individual’s introduction as part of your response.