Explain to your reader the point of this connection (what do you hope to learn/teach about your self, how you use language, think/speak about food with others, your culture, the influence of food and/or language on culture, ect.)

THIS IS JUST A ROUGH DRAFT THAT HAS TO BE WRITTEN & THERE IS NO EXACT WORD COUNT REQUIRED BUT HAS TO COVER MOST OF THESE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Autoethnographic Study of Self and Language Experiences
• Language and literacy – relationship to home and language
• Looking back on your linguistic identities
• How do linguistic and cultural experiences affect your ideas about what it means to
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Establishing your food experience
Connecting your food experience to language (how you think and speak about food w/ the discourse community you shared this experience with)
Explain to your reader the point of this connection (what do you hope to learn/teach about your self, how you use language, think/speak about food with others, your culture, the influence of food and/or language on culture, ect.)

What are the key ideas necessary to fully illustrate a. your experience with food, b. it’s connection to language, and c. how one influences the other:
(repeate the following sequence as necessary)
Introduce main idea
Provide more detail to make this main idea more clear and specific to the reader
You’ve “told” your reader, now “show” them this idea (be discriptive; use examples, etc.)
Specify the connection between your main idea and the evidence you used to “show” it (make it so the reader can’t misinterpret your point)
Tell your reader what the significance of this is (tell them what value there is in what you just told them, e.x.: will this help them understand your next point? how does this connect to your main purpose?)

Now that your readers have traveled the necessary distance between beggining and middle, reveal what they have been working toward (imagine a long, uphill hike, what would you hope to see at the end of it?):
Remind your reader of the point you started them with in the intro (try not to repeat yourself exactly; paraphrase yourself)
Summurize the body of your essay (do so in a way that shows you know your readers are intellegent: they didn’t forget what they just read, so what can your readers learn about your essay in a shortened & paraphrased style, that they didn’t notice or might have missed on their first read?)
So what? (readers have all the pieces necessary to understand your purpose, what can they do with this new understanding?) What next? (where does your reader go from here with this new understanding?)

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