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Everyone’s an Author with Reading 3rd Edition (on Buying Local, Katherine Spriggs)
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Everyone’s an Author with Reading 3rd Edition (on Buying Local, Katherine Spriggs)
The idea of buying local means supporting those within; for instance, when it comes to books, we empower our authors by equipping them with the responsibilities, challenges, and benefits of authorship. Making the best writing ideas accessible invites everyone to write by presenting them with an opportunity. In her book, Katherine tries to expound on buying local and why it’s necessary for society. She speaks with authority on the topic and cites personal experiences to make the readers understand the issue. A typical example is what is means to have food varieties on environmental factors such as pollution, warming, and fossil fuel dwindling. The environmental effects can be averted if we choose to consume locally grown foods. Besides, local buying is associated with other benefits such as reducing fuel and energy consumption due to minimum food movements, expanding small local farms creating employment opportunities, cultural retention, and plants’ adaptation to their environment. However, she argues that most governments allow importation to please international companies, which leads to the outflow of income from the economy. By reading this, the reader can weigh the effects of buying or not buying locally.
Katherine considers different opinions from hers on the effects of buying local on the environment and the economy. Local buying is also perceived to affect the environment by using chemicals, causing soil erosion and pollution. She responds to the counterargument that it would be better to “buy food from the world region where it grows best” (According to Macdonal). (Spriggs) responds to it by pinpointing that using a small firm’s resources is not as efficient as using the same resources on a large firm. She further expounds by providing adequate information on how to use resources on small firms effectively. Spriggs acknowledge that it isn’t possible to grow all food varieties locally; however, buying locally entails buying exhaustively from nearby farmers. Katherine responds to counter arguments by proving further information not addressed by these concerns instead of focusing on discounting them. Additional information widens the reader’s knowledge of the subject matter.
Spriggs’ essay is significant since it explains many different points of view on the topic. Provided adequate information and used it to make an appropriate argument. I found her ability to relate to our daily experiences virtually fantastic for instance, she explains a family friend who was a farmer. This experience creates a personal relation to understanding the topic in question and shows that her topic really matters as it’s happening around us. This establishes understanding sympathy while at the same time, drives logic enhancing the reader’s knowledge.
Spriggs’ writing goes the extra mile to use photos to create imagery on her topic. The first photo shows no how to make buying local easy. However, the second and third photos contradict. The second photo is of a small, sustainable poly-culture farm, and the third is an unsustainable industrial mono-culture farm which is not pleasant to the eye. The differences in the two farms, for instance, on coloration crops in the small farm look healthier, clearly showing that small farms are more efficient and easier to manage than big farms. The fourth photo is of three huge trucks, a car, and a box truck. This shows how the extend of the damage caused by moving food from one region to another as the trucks are the majority. What if we eliminate the trucks and remain with the car alone? Will it be suitable for the environment? The photos thus help have a better understanding of the argument.
In conclusion, if we are to go by the idea of buying local and incorporate the idea of promoting our authors, Katherine Spriggs would be among them; she uses rhetorical questions in her writing, specifies on one genre, captures the attention of a wider audience, argues from a comprehensive point of view, incorporates various literacies and above all uses modern technologies in writing such as using imagery to clear her arguments.