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What Is The Best Food?
This is not a cover letter.
This is your chance to both demonstrate and analyze the skills you have learned this quarter. There are three parts to this introduction.
Go back and reread your first-day writing, “What Is The Best Food?” Write a short analysis of it based on what you’ve learned this quarter. (Like: how effective is it as a persuasive argument? What does it need to be more successful? Does it ever answer the question? If it needs to be more detailed or specific (and it probably does), what sorts of details does it need? Is it appealing to reason (logos), emotion (pathos), or relying on your character/personal story (ethos)? Word Count: 200-300.
Now revise using the rhetorical argument strategies and techniques you have learned this quarter. You can (and should) revise both content and structure. (You could imitate Pythagoras, Komolafe, Nosrat, Bourdain, Krishna, or Wallace, or some combination, or you could invent your own structure.) You are making an argument for what the best food is. Take a stand. Be firm. Also be concise. Word count: 500-800.
Then annotate your argument. Identify specific places where you made the writing better in your revision, and tell me how these changes make the argument more convincing. You MUST do this with footnotes, like Wallace does in “Consider the Lobster.” The most important requirement here is to be specific about demonstrating and explaining the skills you’ve learned since the first day of the quarter. Show me WHAT you did, tell me WHY you did it, and explain HOW that choice served your intent. You need at least one footnote/page, and they must all be unique. In other words, don’t do three footnotes of “and here I am showing, not telling.”
*Your purpose is to make a convincing argument. You decide how you want to make that argument. And yes, you should use the same food from the first-day writing. If you did not actually name a food in that writing…now is your chance.