Practice Source A

The following source is NOT a source you will find in your actual synthesis packet; however, it is a source that is related to the packet's topic of Hip Hop in some way. Please read the source and then answer the following questions in a comment to this post:

1. What is the source's SOAPSTone?
2. What type of source is this?
3. How does the information from this source relate to the prompt?
4. How could the information from this source be used in your synthesis (if you were to go with the main claim you drafted in a previous post)?

(Excerpt from "4 Ways the NCAA is Like Fast Food Resteraunts" by Seamus McKiernan)

Until last week, I hadn't thought how much fast food and college sports have in common. That's when I saw the Burger King March Madness ad blitz and learned that BK boasted the "official burger of the NCAA." The real shocker was the company's TV commercial featuring a former college hoops star who was once sanctioned by the NCAA for illegally accepting money from a booster. Then I saw that the Home of the Whopper, where adults with families to feed work for $8-9 an hour, had assembled a whopping 30-person social media team to spread the news of its flame-broiled burger. You can bet that BK pays those tweet-writers more than the minimum wage workers on the bottom of the food chain.

As a former NCAA college athlete, I would never bad-mouth college athletes. They're not the ones causing this problem. They're the 18-22-year-olds balancing a schedule of practices and games in between classes and tests. What gets under my skin is the creeping sense that college students are being exploited so that NCAA executives, TV studios and college coaches can make their bloated salaries. In that sense, college athletes are akin to another group of exploited workers: fast food employees.