ENGL 100 Eslamieh: Fast Food Nation   Tags: english, fast_food_nation, website_evaluation, wikipedia  

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Welcome, English 100 students! 

This guide will help you find an outside source that you can use for your "Facilitation" presentation on a part of Fast Food Nation. Here is an excerpt from your "Facilitations Guideline" handout:

"Your secondary source must be a scholarly, academic source. (This requires library research.) Your secondary source material should be from a reliable source and should be directly related to the topic you are presenting on-- either by supporting the topic, refuting the topic, or adding to the information presented about the topic."

Let's look at how we might do this with a couple of topics from earlier in the book: French fries and Chicken McNuggets. We might do research on the ingredients, “natural flavors”, chicken and poultry consumption, generically modified chickens; some history to match the fad in the nation, science some econ): 7-10

Let's explore these topics using:

1. Gale Virtual Reference Library
2. Gale Power Search
3. Opposing Viewpoints
4. JSTOR
5. CQ Researcher and
6. Access Science

1. Gale Virtual Reference Library A collection of on-line encyclopedias. Great starting point.
2. Gale Power Search search most of our Gale databases at once with this cross-database search feature.
3. Opposing Viewpoints Great starting point! When off campus, you will be prompted for your library card number. Use any library card from San Mateo County libraries.
4. JSTOR Scholarly articles on many topics.
5. CQ Researcher Another great place to begin!
6. Access Science Online science encyclopedia

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