Concluding Pollan

The purpose of this discussion is to make connections between Pollan and MacMillan (which is what I'll expect you to do in the Community Problem Project, and also to generate and share ideas about the rhetorical strategies you see these two authors using to prepare for the Rhetorical Analysis Essay.  

POST: Respond to the prompt below in a 200-word response by Monday, 7/19, 10 pm.  

DISCUSS: Return to respond to another post on Tuesday 7/19, 10 pm, and return a final time to respond by Wednesday 7/20, 10 pm.  

PROMPT:  First, Let's consider how successful we think Pollan's argument is, and do to that, we need to think a bit about his intended audience (there is a difference between his intended audience and the idea that anyone can go on Amazon and buy his book). Pollan lays out his plan to help us escape the Western Diet in Part 3—who is the audience for this plan?  For example, do you think his audience is simply the general U.S. population?  Is he trying to speak to the people documented in MacMillan's article?  Does he have a more specific audience in mind?  How can you tell?  Provide some reasoning and evidence to support your ideas about who his intended audience is.

Second, which aspects of his argument were successful for you, and which were not.  In other words, are you going to try to change any of your habits or your perspective based on his advice?  AND, which parts of his advice were less convincing or just seem impossible or too impractical to you?  Please limit your comments to the content of Part 3.

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