Poverty Essay Common Errors

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INTRODUCTION/CONTEXT FOR TEXTUAL EVIDENCE

• The University of Illinois and the University of California Berkley did a survey on fast food workers; the results were astonishing. In “Half of Fast Food Workers Rely on Public Assistance to Make Ends Meet,” the author, Shannon Heffernan, claims that the university studies demonstrate that “…

PROPERLY CITED EVIDENCE

• “Over fifty percent of fast food workers rely on some sort of public assistance to support their families” (Heffernan).

2 CONNECTIONS IN ANALYSIS

• “Over fifty percent of fast food workers rely on some sort of public assistance to support their families” (Heffernan). These jobs don’t pay enough for people to keep their kids in school or to pay for college tuition. Workers worry about getting food stamps and paying the bills, which is incredibly stressful. All these worries, piled on top of worries everyone has, like paying for gas, create a stress much greater on these minimum wage earners than other people, demonstrating just how severely impacted they are compared to other groups.

ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCE INFORMATION IN THE HOOK:

• Julie is 28 years old and works at Wendy’s. WRONG

• During a June 2013 interview on Good Morning America, a woman named Julie described what a typical day is like working at Wendy’s. …

NUMBER VS. AMOUNT

• “Poverty affects a huge amount of people in today’s society…” Should this be “number” or “amount”?

• http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/amount_quantity_and_number.htm

FONT/FORMATTING

• EVERYTHING should be 12 point, Times New Roman (or other MLA accepted font), double spaced. Do not do anything special to titles (no underline, bold, etc.).