Assignment 8-Henry Lee

     Author Ruzich uses sources to develop ideas by using them as her main sentences in her paragraphs rather than supporting her ideas, I think she takes the information directly from her sources and uses them as the main ideas in her essay. So her sources contribute to her essay by providing her audience with interesting ideas and facts as the main focus in her paragraphs which makes me as a audience member, stay interested in what information she has to present. An example of how Ruzich uses a source to do more than support her claim is on page 428, where she quotes "The number of Starbucks locations worldwide could someday rival the total number of McDonalds' restaurants." She uses this source to lead into her thesis, and by using that quote she knows that she has gotten the attention of her audience and drew them into her paper. Another example is on the bottom of page 429, she uses a quote about how the early civilizations who had control of the coffee bean became a strong nation. But this is misleading because she then writes about how the controllers of the coffee production were only improving their own lives and often at the expense of the people who actually grow and harvest the crops. Again, on the middle of page 430, she begins explaining how the World Bank was trying to support Vietnam's developing coffee industry but then leads into a point where she is saying that the World Bank was enticed to support Vietnam because they had cheap labor costs and when combined with low quality beans then the beans would be very cheap to produce and therefore can make high profits off of them. Lastly on page 431, she says that "four multinational corporations dominate world markets, accounting for 40% of the coffee trade." This information that she uses from her source is good information but in the next sentence she adds that Dunkin' Donuts still sells more coffee than any specialty retailer. I think she likes to keep her sentence structure unpredictable to keep her audience "on their toes" while reading her essay. So after doing this assignment I have realized that the tradition usage of sources isn't the most productive way in getting the readers attention, and also to use sources as the main idea in a paragraph is much stronger than using my own ideas as the main idea. I think Ruzich uses her sources almost as a backbone for her essay and that she uses her own ideas and thoughts to supplement the information that are in the sources.