- Purpose: This is where you bring it all together and show what you’ve learned this semester. You will demonstrate your skill in articulating complex ideas, examining claims and evidence found in your research materials, supporting your ideas with relevant reasons and examples, sustaining a coherent discussion, and using standard written English. - Prompt: We have read about and discussed the influence of food and the food industry on society (the individual and the collective). In the past decades we have witnessed remarkable changes in the roles of food, marketing, and agricultural industries. Traditional means of farming, advertising, and eating have changed affecting society. ANY topic we have discussed, read about, watched in documentaries, or is related to anyway of food realm is fair game. Find something that speaks to you. If you aren’t interested in your topic, you will not be able to engage your readers.