Instructions:

Complete all six prompts in the Joining the Conversation section at the end of Emma Barnes’ article “The Fast and the Fashionable: How Your Closet Contributes to a Global Crisis” (479-485). Please write in complete, Grammarly-checked sentences and number your responses. Please do not attach your responses as a document file. Please copy and paste the following numbered prompts into the text editor that opens for this assignment. Add your responses in bold beneath each question.

Joining the Conversation

In paragraph 1, Emma Barnes claims that the fast fashion industry “is debilitating to both workers’ rights and environmental safety.” Explain this claim in your own words. How does fast fashion contribute to inhumane labor practices? How does the fast fashion industry adversely impact the climate?

Barnes explains that disposability lies at the core of the fast fashion industry: clothing is manufactured to be quickly discarded. In paragraph 4, she describes the factors that drive the idea that people should frequently purchase and then toss out the clothes they buy. What decisions by the fast fashion industry create this throw-away culture? Do you agree, disagree, or agree and disagree with Barnes’s analysis? Why or why not?

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Who is Barnes’s primary audience? How can you tell? Point to the places in her text where you see her referencing her audience. What assumptions does she make about her primary audience? Are these assumptions accurate? Why or why not?

Barnes offers thrifting as “an alternative to fast fashion shopping” (paragraph 5). What are the benefits of thrifting, according to Barnes? What are the problems with encouraging more people, especially those with more disposable income, to frequent the thrift shops in lower-income communities?

Imagine that you are reviewing Barnes’s essay in an in-class revision workshop. What advice would you give her to help her strengthen her argument? Check out the suggestions offered in Chapter 12 for making revisions. In your revision comments to Barnes, resist making microlevel edits. Instead, make sure that you think globally, tackling the big questions her argument opens for you.

Check the tags on a few pieces of clothing that you own. Where were they made? Reflect on your own consumer choices. What factors impact what clothes you buy? What influences when you buy clothing and where you purchase your clothes? Write a short response to Barnes based on your reflection.

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