English essay

1. Selected Topic (broad): Food diet

2. Narrowed Topic: Is the processed food good for our diet?

3. List Your General Underlying Assumptions About the Topic:

· It is not good to eat processed food always.

· It may be harmful for the health.

· It has various kinds of chemicals that can lead to different diseases.

· People get attracted by advertisement.

4. Describe your audience: People who think processed food can be good for their health should stop thinking that. It is not healthy for a proper diet.

5. List their underlying assumptions they hold in common with you:

· People who eat packed food suffer from various diseases.

· They are attracted by the media to eat packed food.

· They eat processed food to maintain diet, but it harms their health.

6. Describe your issue – the two sides of the argument:

Some people say processed food maintains health whereas some depict it disturbs the health.

7. State your claim: Actually eating processed food regularly is not good for health.

8. List your first reason: It harms health.

9. List your underlying assumption for this reason: causes various types of diseases like heart disease, obesity and so on.

10. List your second reason: It is just the fake advertisement in media and in the package of food to lure the consumers.

11. List your underlying assumption for this reason: In order to earn money, manufacturers do fake advertisement to attract the consumers.

12. List your third reason: Daily routine of diet is not maintained because of packaged food.

13. List your underlying assumption for this reason: when people start eating fast food daily, their daily food meals are not completed. As a result, they do not get necessary nutrients and their body and mind is not properly developed.

14. Read and summarize your opposing argument.

Processed foods on the other side can be important to the health of a person. This is because the producers have a high ability food is safety and removes the dangerous toxins.

15. Concede (admit and list) any strong and logical aspects of the opposing argument:

Take for instance milk pasteurization, this removes harmful bacteria from the raw milk making it suitable for consumption. Food processing methods like the drying and smoking aiming to remove water reduces the possibility of the growth of bacteria in the food since the bacteria rely for water to multiply and grow as opposed to fresh foods.

16. Identify the weak aspects of the opposing argument and refute (argue against them) in your essay.

Only bacteria are not everything. First natural ingredients must be there in food that you eat daily. Natural ingredients include vitamin, mineral, calcium, iron and other protein. These are only found in natural food not in packed or canned food.

17. Cite your three (3) sources and include a summary, evaluation and reflection on each source you will use in your Classical Argument essay.

1. Citation: Pollan, Michael. “An Eater’s Manifesto.” In Defense of Food. Penguin, 2008, pp. 1-15.

Summary: The book talks about the diet that we should like to use in order to improve our fitness and health. The book also examines the types of food one is likely to consume so as to be free from diet risks.

Evaluation: The book gives clear tactics to use when choosing your diet and also how you should deal with the processed foods.

Reflections: The book reflects on how the lives of people are endangered by consuming any foods anyhow which brings problems to their health without their knowledge.

2. Citation: Lambrou, Irena R. "Food for thought: a case study of eating from dumpsters." (2014).

Summary: Lambrou talks about the food thought in his journal. The book talks into detail on the best diet one which is supposed to eat. It gives examples of foods that are supposed to be consumed and how they should be used.

Evaluation: The book is very important in the sense that, it gives insight on the best meals which one should be taking. It also trains on how to prepare healthy meals and their positive effects to the body.

Reflection: The book is useful in the provision of the necessary insights which if collect followed, will help individuals in the future.

3. Citation: Salih, Ebtihag Abas. Trends and Outcomes in The use of Total Parenteral Nasogastric and Oral Nutrition Support. Diss. Alzaeim Alazhari University, 2015.

Summary: The article is all about the importance and the trends of using total nasogastric and the oral nutrition support. It is therefore informative on the nutrition issues in the health of an individual.

Evaluation: The article is very important because it gives guidance on the best nutrition in the body and what the body needs for its development.

Reflection: The article will be helpful to people if they keenly follow the guidelines highlighted there and the people will be free from any infections related to consumption of foods.

18. Plan to use ONE of the following appeals in your essay. Decide if and where (within the context of your essay) you will use each appeal:

I will use ethos in my essay. To prove my points, I will provide evidence to the audience.