Food Narrative Essay:

During the beginning stages of writing my food narrative using bullet points was beneficial. Not only did the bullet points help gather my thoughts, but it also helped me be more organized and develop my thoughts. As I began to actually type this assignment, I realized how uncomfortable the position I was in. The laptop was on my stomach and I was laying down at home, it was not done on a desk like a normal assignment usually would be done.

As I began writing, two ideas came into mind. One about my mom’s famous recipe on a Bengali dish called Biryani and another idea based on an experience I had at a restaurant. I realized that the restaurant experience would be a better take on the food narrative because it changed my perspective on other rusty and low rating restaurants. While writing my food narrative, I began to express my thoughts but using the five senses., which to me was the easiest part. Being able to express my love for food, by describing how my taste buds felt was such an amazing feeling. The most difficult part was connecting the food narrative to a situation that changed me as a person. I realized that there was going to be a lot of revising because of the sequence order, and that this assignment could not be done in a one sit-down section. As my five fingers began typing away, I noticed my train of thoughts heading in different directions. What I thought made sense in my head, sounded illiterate on paper. My expectations were to have everything in order so that it was illegible for the reader to read as well as experiencing the moment with the reader. However, one thing that I would change about my food narrative is my vocabulary use. I feel like my vocabulary use could have made the narrative stronger and stand out.

As a writer, I feel like my food narrative was well written. Not only did I dedicate a lot of time and effort into making sure the reader was able to obtain a mental memory in their head, but I wanted to make the reader feel like they were actually tasting the food in their mouth while reading. The part of the food narrative that I feel most accomplished besides how I grab the reader’s attention, is how well I able to have transitions from when I was walking into the restaurant to the moment when I unbuttoned my pants. Overall, I feel like my food narrative was well written and I deserve at least an A. I believe that I followed all the requirements and met all the expectations that were being set. Writing a food narrative, sparked my interest into writing again.

Exploratory Essay:

Food is the most convenient topic and is usually bought up in every conversation. Therefore, fast food restaurants were an eye-catching topic for me. During the beginning stages of my research, unfortunately most the scholarly journal article that I found were providing a bias opinion rather than informative. The resources that was truly beneficial was International Journal of Obesity. Not only did it help me understand the background of food but, it gave me the information that I needed.

My goals for this exploratory essay was to get my point across of how fast food restaurant negativity affects children’s and teen’s health. Due to the lack of nutrition needed to maintain a diet. However, fast food restaurant is an easy alternative in order to fill an empty stomach. My goals however, were not met in my first draft. My writing was more opinioned rather than being informing. This made it lack points in which the author was trying to get across and instead was replaced with points that were irrelevant. As I continued to get feedback from my peers and professor on my writing, I took their criticism into account. Within the two to three weeks, I began fixing up my thesis along with my structure, so it would be more clear and easier to understand. In the process of my writing, components, that were constructive was organizing the general purpose of fast food restaurants. The central idea planned out the thesis, which made the main focus easier, for the reader. Organization helped plan out and separate information that was more bias from information was more informative. Once I gathered all my information, I analyzed and paraphrased each detail and began reorganizing my structure of my writing. The expectations of my goals were becoming reality, and everything started falling into place.

Throughout my writing, I want to make sure my audience understands why fast food restaurants negativity affects children and teen’s health. My goal as a writer, is for my audience to gain new knowledge on fast food restaurants or at least increase the information they originally had. When the reader is reading through my essay, they would learn that I am against fast food restaurants because it is an addiction. Once you indulge in fast food restaurants, you are always going to seek for fast food when you are hungry. I would like the reader to understand my claim of how even though fast food might be tasty, the benefits for fast food is not doing anything good for the body but damaging it. I would like the readers to be informed of all the health issues that fast food obtains and know that I am against fast food restaurants.

If I had a chance to rewrite my exploratory essay, since organizing the general purpose of fast food helped me, I would take more time planning an outline rather than just writing without clearly understanding how I want the reader to interact with my writing and which type of audience’s attention I am aiming for. Another thing I urge myself to change, not only with this piece of writing is to manage my time better. Instead of hanging in a draft that was rushed, I would spend time revising it before having my professor or peers revise it. Overall this writing piece made me realize the positive and negative aspects in my writing and in fast food restaurants.

Critical Research Analysis Essay:

Fast food restaurant was an captivating arguable topic that I wanted to discuss.  Fast food restaurants can be expressed in both a positive and negative way. The way that I captured my perspective on fast food restaurants through my critical research analysis essay was through fast food restaurant negativity affects children’s and teen’s health. Lacking the nutrition needed to maintain a diet. The opposing argument displays fast food restaurant being an easy alternative in order to fill an empty stomach. One of the best qualities in my essay, is my clear claim. The claim that I created, was straight to the point and made it easier for the reader to understand. Another one of my best qualities in my essay, is the way I analyzed each detail. Not only did I include the authors perspective, but I included my opinion and how I felt fast food restaurants were affecting the lives of children and teens. One quality that I need to improve on is my structure and transition of my essay. The order of my essay at the beginning states my claim along with the background information, in my opinion provided a clear understanding of fast food restaurants. However, the transition was not as smooth. In an argument essay the claim and the counter claim has to have a clear contradict transition. Another quality that I need to improve on is properly engaging my audience. I need to study my audience therefore the claim that is being expressing is more efficient and important. For future essays, I would focus more about the audience that it is being addressed too. Therefore, my points can be meaningful and powerful. Along with spending more time on revising the essay.