HW 2 - Food - Initial Thoughts

Please write 2-5 paragraphs about food. Use questions and thoughts from your notebook and class discussion to get you started. Feel free to choose an area of focus - better to write 3 meaningful paragraphs about 3 aspects of food, than to make a list of questions and answers.

Particularly interesting to me - What are your priorities in food and what do you think of those priorities? In what ways does your typical meal fail to meet the desires of an ideal meal, and what do you think of that? Is food sacred (and what does that mean)?

Please collect your best thoughts from the notebook, write a draft (perhaps on Word), print and edit, then revise and publish. Even though this is "initial thoughts" and can't be wrong it could be more (or less) excellent, profound, beautifully-written, or insightful.

To achieve insight try this process:

1. Write down what you think.

2. Think about what you think. Could you take it a step further? Figure out why you see the world that way? See something most people don't realize?

3. Repeat.

To achieve beauty try this process:

1. Get your ideas out.

2. Re-write each sentence so it says what you want, better, shorter, sharper.

3. Make up new metaphors or find short funny anecdotes to illustrate key ideas.

4. Use sensual language - color, motion, shape, feel, sound.

5. Read the piece out loud and change it where it feels confusing, slow, or boring.

Due Wednesday, 22 September, 8:30am.