Assignment 5: "Sample Instructions – Draft"Pick a favorite snack food that requires you to take at least eight steps to prepare.Write one to two (1-2) pages of instructions on how to fix the snack you picked. Imagine your audience is third grade Girl Scouts who have little or no experience in a kitchen. Along with your instructions (in the same document), write a 1-page explanation of the steps you took to create the document and the rationale for your approach. In your document, you should:Write instructions and explanations clearly and briefly.Use appropriate tone and language for the intended purpose and audience.Organize the instructions and the document.Provide an explanation and rationale of the approach.Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:Explain ideas in proper format using accurate details and relevant examples.Design effective graphics for visual presentations.Use syntax, tone, and word choice appropriate to technical communications.Prepare reports, project requirements, and other various technical writing genres.Organize ideas logically.Use technology and information resources to research issues in technical writing.Write clearly and concisely about technical writing using proper writing mechanics.Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.Please click here to view the grading rubric.

Topic ChoicesChoose one of the following topics:the food waste problem at restaurants (or at a specific restaurant where you have worked)the food waste problem at stores (or at a specific store where you have worked)the food waste problem in consumer’s homesthe food insecurity problem for college students in the USAthe food desert problem in the USA (or in your neighborhood, city or hometown)RequirementsIn your essay, develop a plan for solving the food problem that you are writing about.Use a variety of rhetorical strategies that you have learned this semester to convince your audience to adopt your solutions.I encourage you to include some of your own creative solutions. I'm not looking for a "right" solution; there are many ways to solve these problems, so I encourage you to share your own unique ideas. You may also add personal observations and even compelling personal experiences to convince readers.Incorporate at least 5 sources into your essay. These are the required sources:at least two credible sources from Grossmont’s library databaseat least one credible source from your google searchat least two of the sources we have read in class:"Wasted""Reducing Hunger on Campus"“The Impact of Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Poor Nutrition on Health and Well-Being” "Barriers to Food Security and Community Stress in an Urban Food Desert"Let your ideas and creativity dominate the essay rather than the research. The research is just meant to enhance what you think could be done to solve the problem you're writing about. You may also incorporate information from the videos we watched in class. The videos are posted under 10.4, 11.5 and 12.5.Organize your essay in a way that is easy for the reader to follow. Use transitions to help the reader follow your ideas, and smoothly incorporate quotations from the articles. Use in-text citations after any quoted or summarized material from your research.On a separate sheet of paper include a Works Cited page at the end of your essay that lists all of the sources you cited.Type your essay, and use MLA format: 12-point font, Times New Roman font style, double-spacing, and one-inch margins.Proofread your essay for grammar and punctuation errors.Guide for Structuring Essay 3 Paragraph 1: Brief Introduction Use a hook at the beginning of your introduction to grab your audience’s attention.Identify the problem that you are writing about.State your thesis (your ideas for how this problem should be solved).Paragraph 2: Overview of the Problem Include one paragraph where you give an overview of the problem in order to convince your audience that this problem is worth caring about.Explain some negative consequences this problem creates in society that you’ve experienced or observed yourself, read about in your research or in the articles from class, and/or seen in the videos you have watched in our class.Paragraphs 3, 4, 5 & 6: Explanation of the Solutions Include at least four paragraphs in which you explain your solutions to the problem you are writing about. Here are some ideas for how to develop each body paragraph:Identify in your topic sentence one of your solutions from your thesis. Explain why this solution is needed.Describe the solution.Explain how this solution could improve the situation. Optional Counterargument ParagraphYou could also add a counterargument paragraph in place of paragraph 3, 4, 5 or 6 and use the “refuting the opponent” rhetorical strategy.First explain the opposing view (the counter argument).Then “refute the opponent” and explain why the opposing argument is flawed, unfair, weak, or misguided.Paragraph 7: Conclusion In your conclusion, you could summarize your most important points that you want your audience to remember.You could make a prediction about what might reasonably happen if your audience does not adopt your solutions.You could end your conclusion with something very powerful, something you really want to stick in your audience’s mind.Works CitedOn a separate page at the end of your essay, create your Works Cited and list in alphabetical order all of the sources you quoted and summarized in your essay.