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 assignment for this week is the following: The guidelines for your Spiritual, Gastronomical, or Travel Essay Crafting the Personal Essay, Chapters 13 and 18 Stella Parks, "A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering My Grandmother's Kitchen" (Links to an external site

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 assignment for this week is the following:

• The guidelines for your Spiritual, Gastronomical, or Travel Essay
• Crafting the Personal Essay, Chapters 13 and 18
• Stella Parks, "A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering My Grandmother's Kitchen" (Links to an external site.) (Serious Eats)
• Katie Simpson, "How to Describe San Francisco to Strangers" (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.)(Cleaver magazine)

General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post. You may write your primary post and reply in either order. One post is due by Thursday, and one is due by Sunday. Each post is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points. 

To ensure a cordial style, please remember to greet your classmates and sign your name in your posts.

Specific Guidelines for this Discussion

Note: This discussion topic has two parts. Please respond to them both in your primary post.

Part A:

In Chapter 13, "Writing the Gastronomical Essay," Dinty W. Moore writes, "Food is not just sustenance, then, it is a mood changer, an essential component of marking key events in our lives" (154, my emphasis). And in Chapter 18, "The Travel Essay," Moore urges, "When traveling, try to see what is really there, not what past travel articles [ . . . ] tell you will be there" (195, my emphasis). 

Please choose one of the two essays we read this week--Stella Parks' "A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering My Grandmother's Kitchen" (Links to an external site.) or Katie Simpson's "How to Describe San Francisco to Strangers" (Links to an external site.)--to focus on. Please select an idea or concept about gastronomical or travel writing that you gleaned from either Chapter 13 or Chapter 18. (The ideas in bold type above are examples of ideas you could choose; but you are not limited to these.) Please show how Stella Parks or Katie Simpson uses, modifies, or even discards (?) this idea in her essay.

Citing your source(s): If you refer specifically in your post to Crafting the Personal Essay, or to Parks'  or Simpson's essays, please cite your source(s). Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.

Part B:

After reading Your Spiritual, Gastronomical, or Travel Essay: Guidelines, please write descriptively about your developing plans for your spiritual, gastronomical, or travel essay.

Specifically, please do these things:

• Please identify the writing prompt that you think you will base your essay on. You don't need to feel set in stone with your choice of prompt; just let us know which prompt (or prompts) you are gravitating toward at this point.
• Please write about how you hope to use this prompt as a source of ideas/direction in your essay. For example, you might share some specific events or scenes you hope to include in your essay.
  • As you write your post about your plans for your essay, please be sure to draw on ideas you've been reading about in Crafting the Personal Essay, especially Chapter 11, "Writing the Spiritual Essay"; Chapter 13, "Writing the Gastronomical Essay"; and Chapter 18, "Writing the Travel Essay." 

Citing your source(s): If you refer specifically in your post to Moore's book, or any other published writing, please cite your source(s). Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.