Address the following prompt for this week. You are not responsible for answering each of the questions below. These questions are meant as a starting place, so feel free to elaborate on them or to allow your writing to go away from these questions entirely.
Read "Bottled Trouble Water" by Scott Lemanski on pp. 207-212 of Strategies for Writing Successful Research Papers; then answer the following questions. What do you make of this essay? Do you think that Lemanski makes a compelling argument? What is your response to his arguments? What do you think about the situation with bottle water in this country? What other possible factors could contribute to this discussion? For example, much has been made in the recent years about the waste produced by plastic water bottles and how recycling them is not efficient, meaning that it the process of recycling the bottles costs more than producing new bottles. What angles and arguments would you add to this discussion? How do you feel about drinking tap versus bottled water? How do you feel about your children and family drinking tap water? What other solutions might be out there?