solved TASK: In this paper, you must analyze a controversy using

TASK: In this paper, you must analyze a controversy using two course texts. Choose two texts

from our second unit that are not making the same argument about the controversy and write
a paper to explain and analyze how these texts each contribute to the discussion about the
controversy. Here are some questions you should consider, both as you read the essays and as
you write about them. What do they contribute?  How are these two authors talking to each
other? What makes it useful to read these two very different perspectives on this controversy?
Toward the conclusion of your essay, you may indicate whether or not you find one of these
texts more persuasive or effective than the other, but the goal of the paper should always be to
balance your analysis of the two texts, not to prefer one over the other. In other words, your
goal should be to summarize both essays and show how, from their different vantages, they are
contributing to the debate.  Consider an example from the first section of the course. We talked
a great deal about the American food system. If you were to pair Pollan and Freedman, you
could develop a paper the shows the two sides of the debate about food. Pollan allows us to
see the dangers of industrial food production, while Freedman reveals a potentially valuable
aspect of it. Together, these essays (one directly confronting the other) paint a better picture of
the debate than either one of them can on their own. You should aim to do something similar
in your paper: provide a full picture of what people are debating.  
METHOD: Consider each author’s conveyed purpose, tone, evidence, language, and/or
intended audience, as these are tools for developing your overall stance about the relationship
of these texts. Also consider how these two texts exist in context: what do these authors add to
the discourse around the controversy?
RATIONALE: This essay extends your use of summary and analysis from Essay #1, and it requires
you to think and write more broadly about a topic and its context. Use TSIS Chapters 5, 6, and 7
to ensure that you are always distinguishing what you say from what they say. The following
SKILLS should be demonstrated in your work: direct reference to the sources, summary of their
arguments, and clear presentation of how these writers approach a single topic in very different
ways.
TEXT OPTIONS: You may choose any two of our course texts from unit 2, though be sure to
choose two that are NOT in agreement on the issue of the economy.  If you choose two texts
that agree, you will not be able to write an effective essay.