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Expository Writing - Food for Thought: Writing and Reading about Food and Culture >> Content Detail



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SES #TOPICSKEY DATES
1Introductions

Course Overview
Letter to me due
2Voice and Sensibility

Audience

Analogy and Argument
Homework 1 due
3Food and Memory, Family and Culture

What Makes Good Writing?
Homework 2 due
4Share Journals

"Starving Children": The Meaning and Value of Shared Meals

Elements of the Essay
Homework 3 due
5Discuss Fisher and Dillard

What is an Essay?

Ideas for Essay 1?
Homework 4 due

Draft of essay 1 due
6Workshop Essay 1Homework 5 due
7Writing Clinic re: Essay 1

Bourdain and Bilger: Cooking As a Profession
Homework 6 due

Revise essay 1 due
8Introduce Research Project

Watch Julia Child Episode and Discuss
Homework 7 due
9The Book Review As an Essay

Gopnik and Acocella: Food and History
Homework 8 due

Journal entry on fast food nation due
10Discuss Fast Food Nation, Part 1Homework 9 due
11Discuss Fast Food Nation, Part 2Homework 10 due

Proposal for essay 3 due
12Share Proposals and Refine Them

"Java Man": Food As Science and Symbol
Homework 11 due

Journal entry: link two readings due
13Discuss Readings: Solutions to the Fast Food Culture?

The Economics of Our Food Supply
Homework 12 due

Proposal for essay 2 due
14Work on Ideas for Essay 2Homework 13 due

Draft of essay 2 due
15Workshop Essay 2 in Small GroupsHomework 14 due

Essay 3 revised proposal and annotated bibliography due 5 days after Lec #15
16Writing Clinic: Issues From Essay 2Homework 15 due

Revise essay 2 due on Lec #17
17Library VisitHomework 16 due

Work on essay 3 due
18Meetings re: Essay 3Homework 17 due

Draft of essay 3 due
19Workshop Essay 3 in Small GroupsHomework 18 due

Work on revising essays as needed due
20Writing Clinic: Issues From Essay 3

Alice's Restaurant
Homework 19 due

Proposal for oral presentation due 3 days after Lec #20
21Meetings re: Essay 3 As NeededHomework 20 due

Revise essay 3 due
22Writing Clinic As NeededHomework 21 due

Re-revise essay 2 due

Essay 3 due one day after Lec #22
23Edit and Polish Essay 2 Re-revisionsHomework 22 due

Work on oral presentation due
24Oral PresentationsHomework 23 due

Work on revision for portfolios due
25Oral Presentations (cont.)Homework 24 due

Work on revision for portfolios due
26EvaluationsHomework 25 due

Portfolios all work due

 








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