Summary 1: In author David Zinczenko's article, "Don't Blame the Eater", Zinczenko reports an over abundance of high calorie fast foods in the diet of youngsters. He notes his own childhood consumption of fast food and stresses the causes behind this were his lack of parental supervision and the reasoning that young people do not have the money to buy healthy foods when on their own.
Summary 2: In David Zinczenko's article, "Don't Blame the Eater", Zinczenko supports the opinion that fast food companies bear responsibility in the obesity of children. He notes how easy and inexpensive it is for a young person to eat at a fast food resturaunt, especialy when a parent can not be at home for mealtimes. Zinckzenko then presents further argument that fast food companies should play a part in future lawsuits for the obesity of these young people.
I think both of my summaries followed the templates the book provided pretty well. Both are very different though because they point out different parts of the author's arguments. By picking a few key points for each summary I was able to support two very differnt ideas with the same article. I think that the templates really helped me get a better idea how to summarize argument. I would not have been able to do this assignment so easily without this last section of the book.
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The first summary shows that the writer agrees with Zinczenko's point that the parents are responsible for young people becoming obese. That the fact that these kids lack parental supervision and the only choice is fast food is the reason for obesity.
In the second summary the writer shows that she agrees with the fact that it is the fast food companies fault for young people's obesity. That the fast food companies need to take responsibility for this growing problem.
The first summary leans more toward agreement, as it focused on the ff companies' responsibilities. In the second, it talks about the law suits, but doesn't support them.
both are neutral, though, and don't express a bias, which is good.
I personally can not tell which arguement you support. you did a great job summarizing the articles but you didn't really argue for either side. if i had to pick one, i believe that you think that the companies are guilty. i came to this conclusion by noticing that you wrote more in your second summary and you seem to have found more reasons to support his article.
Yeah Matt. That is what I was going for in both summaries. I know they were short, but if you can understand them I'm happy. I also appreciate that Kate says these were unbiased because I tried for that.
I would just like to say I like the "36251" name.
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