For Short Paper 1, find a food blog you like and write a brief essay550-750 wordsin which you analyze various aspects of the blog. Use the terms introduced by Melissa Goldthwaite in her essay What is Food Writing? (the first essay in Norton Mix) to anchor your analysis. In the section Reading About Food (pages 2-3) she introduces and explains several terms central to reading and writing in the humanities: audience, purpose, tone, and ethos are the big ones. She also provides example questions that model how we can analyze images; she uses the food blog betterwithbutter.com. Please don’t evaluate the blog. That is, your thesis should not be about what the blog does well or poorly, what you like and don’t like, whether it’s good or bad.
