Sandwich-Style

SANDWICH-STYLE ARGUMENTATION

__Directions__: To argue well means mixing your ideas with those of your sources in a way that clearly shows when YOU are speaking and when SOMEONE ELSE is speaking, someone you’ve researched from interviews, books, internet sources, etc. The “sandwich style” is a good way to organize this interactive way of writing: 1- you introduce and describe your source, 2- then give the “meat” or other goodies in the middle (a fact, quote, paraphrased idea, summarized study), and 3- follow with your own analysis and opinions. So #1 and #3 are like the buns or slices of bread of a sandwich. Study the example essay below by answering these questions:

1- Find and circle the following: one publisher, two titles, two writers, two quotations, two in-text citations, two editors, three places showing page numbers? Can you also find something that MATCHES inside the essay with the Works Cited section? 2- Is Pittman right or wrong? According to whose opinion? 3- What does the verb “bug” mean? How is the verb similar to the NOUN form? 4- What do these expressions mean: “lurking” and “God’s answer to…” 5- What do you think about this issue? Does Facebook Bug You? Tim Conrad

Josh Pittman, a Weber State University student, has researched Facebook as a social network, and has come to the conclusion that it is “today’s drug of choice” (65). I agree with Pittman and also with his idea that sometimes it just “bugs” him, as he so humorously puts it. For example, think about this quote by Pittman, “Being around people who bug you all the time in real life would obviously get on your nerves eventually; the thing about Facebook is that it does exactly this. All those people who bug you in the real world can bug you online (69).” I’m also worried what people think about me when I post photos on my own Facebook page all about my latest great vacation adventure or my supposedly insightful complaints about the state of the world. Are my Facebook or Real World friends (lurking online) getting “bugged” by me, thinking that I maybe think I’m something like “God’s answer” to life, both fun and serious?

Works Cited Pittman, Josh. “This is Your Brain on Facebook: Today’s Drug of Choice.” Eds. Scott Rogers & Sylvia Newman. Ogden, Utah: Weber State University, 2013: 65-72.