History

Answer the question you select with a thoughtful, thorough, organized, and well-written essay.  Follow the Writing Assignments Guidelines located in your syllabus.  You must use at least one quality source to complete your essay (I would recommend you use one of the required texts).  Aside from using the required texts, the best essays typically use a quality supplemental source (peer-reviewed academic journals, books by authoritative experts, lecture notes, etc.) to support the claims/arguments they set out to make.  Be sure to properly cite any source you use.  At minimum, essays are to be three pages (double-spaced) in length.  Essays should not exceed five pages (double-spaced) in length.  

1. Review a chapter from Michael Pollans The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.  In your review, you should offer your own opinions, analysis, and critiques of the chapter.  You must support your opinions with evidence.  A quality essay will consider how the author interprets the topics covered, how the chapter assisted you (or not) in understanding the topics it addresses, how the chapter makes you feel (about the topic, etc.), and will highlight the chapters strengths and weaknesses.  Ultimately, your goal is to show me that you read, critically thought about, and understood the chapter you selected to review.