Gather research for an essay about one of the topics explored in Fast Food Nation.

Specifically, your assignment must show that you have a strong research question and at least
five sources that might help you answer that question. You won't actually draft your essay
until Lesson 2, however.

A research question will give your research a clear goal. Each source you find should have
the potential to answer at least part of the research question and bring you closer to
understanding the issue that you've decided to explore. Your assignment will list these
sources on an annotated works-cited page.

Your assignment should include the following elements:

 A research question related to a topic that Eric Schlosser explores in Fast Food Nation

 A works-cited page that lists at least five sources with the potential to answer the research
question

 An annotation for each entry on the works-cited page that summarizes the source's
purpose, evaluates its credibility, and explains how it is related to your research question

You should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. If you
haven't done so, go back and complete that activity now.

Ask yourself these questions as you revise:

  Is my research question appropriate to the length and scope of the essay? Is it broad
enough to require several sources to answer but narrow enough that I can provide an
answer in a single essay?

 Are the sources on my works-cited page cited according to MLA guidelines?

 Do my annotations make it clear how my sources might help me answer the research
question? Do my annotations show how the sources are relevant to the topic I've chosen?

 Do I evaluate the sources for their transparency, timeliness, and author authority?

Use this rubric to determine how well you're meeting the criteria for the assignment.
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4.1.9 Practice: Complete Your Assignment