Description
This is your chance to both demonstrate and analyze the skills you have learned this quarter. There
are two parts to this introduction.
Revise your first-day writing, "What Is The Best Food?" 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, or Bourdain, or Krishna, 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.
Word count: 400-500.
Then annotate your argument. Identify specific places where you made the writing better, and tell me how these changes make the argument more convincing. You may do this with the comment feature in Google docs, or by color-coding and writing end-comments. The most important aspect 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, WHY you did it, and HOW that choice served your intent.
*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 decide to change, then you
need to address that in your annotation.
My writing is here:
In my life, the best food for me is the dumplings my mom made. There are two reasons that make it the best food for me. On one hand, I love dumplings better than any other dishes because of the delicious combination of the skin and the filling which was the result of the wisdom of our predecessors. On the other hand, what's important to me is these dumplings are home-made. I can always remember that when I was a child, my mom cooked the dumplings for me as breakfast before going to school which greatly warmed me and encouraged me. In the countless
combinations of skin and filling, the dumplings made by my mom will always be the best for me.
Sample Solution