So I've been experiencing a bit a writer's block with this essay and I think the mostly likely reason is that I am unused to such a free structure in writing. The past two years have been filled with technical and academic writing, so this essay is definitely something new. An idea that came to me yesterday about how to approach this essay helped my structure dilemma., which might help you if you are in a similar circumstance.
Because of the number of really insightful, thought provoking questions generated in class and on the syllabus, I have decided to structure my essay as a 'framework' of questions that are connected to each other. For instance, my family eating history, my current views, and ideas for better cooking are all related and if I have learned one thing from this class, many of the questions we are asking are connected in some way.
I had the same problem. It feels a lot different writing a paper this way, for an assignment. I like your idea about a framework of connected questions. I tried to write mine as if I was writing a journal entry, then I modified it as much as I needed to for the sake of the assignment.
ReplyDeleteI like the framework question idea! I think all of your topics will definitely connect with each other so it will be a little easier to write and come up with things to say.
ReplyDeleteYeah food really becomes to combine a lot of different disciplines, maybe virtually all of them!
ReplyDeleteI had trouble knowing what to write about too. Its hard to know what to write when there are really no guidelines.
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