Main purpose of paper is to bring culture and food together. Topic I chose is how the fast food industry influences a unhealthy diet.
Use this space to share a “final draft” of your learning by the end of Week 12. This final paper/project should:
Summarize and report on what you have learned from each of your readings
Describe how what you have learned has helped you to address your question. If what you learned did not help you address your question, explain why not. For those of you who are registered for the advanced-level version of this course, you should also describe how what you have learned relates back to one or more topics or issues discussed in the Beardsworth readingfor example, does it add a new dimension, provide a fresh example of somethign, or perhaps challenge older findings?
Write a paragraph or two explaining how your work in this final draft demonstrates your learning in the SUNY General Education category of Humanities (more about this below).
Presumably you should be able to build this final draft, in part, from some of what you have already been sharinghopefully improved upon by taking into account the feedback you received on it along the way.
The length of your work depends on the nature of your work. For individual students, this paper should be at least four pages long. In most cases, it should be significantly longer. (I can only imagine four pages being sufficient when a student has turned in significant installments along the way that need not be revised or re-submitted and synthesized into this final one, and where this final project is a very concisely “topping off” of earlier submissions.) If you are working on a team, you should multiply that length by how many members you have on your team.
However, you may take some liberties in the format of your final draft. It could take the form of a traditional paper, but it could also be a PowerPoint presentation, a website, etc. If you do choose to incorporate other media (presumably combined with text, of course), you should explain your rationale for using these other media, and how you believe they communicate to your audience what you have learned and how it helps you (or not) to address your question.
Remember, a significant measure of the quality of your work will be how well it demonstrates what you have learned and how well you are able to relate this learning to original question (whether or not you ultimately found it helpful in addressing your question).
While you may express some of your own opinions, the quality of your work will be judged for critical reflection on those opinions, and for the presentation of substantive evidence and/or credible argumentation offered in support of such opinionsnot the opinions themselves. Good quality inquiry will also demonstrate engagement with questions, concerns, or disagreements raised by the instructor and other classmates who have critiqued or appraised your work in earlier iterations. Also, it will be characterized by thorough and complete documentation of sources, consistent with academic expectations and with all relevant college policies.
You should not only keep such criteria in mind as you do your own work, but also whenever you provide feedback to your colleagues about their work. That is, the evaluative feedback and constructive criticism you give others should deal with the learning which is demonstrated in the inquiry (e.g., papers and/or projects) in light of the criteria mentioned above.
Regarding the Humanities General Education paragraph(s):
This course fulfills the SUNY General Education requirement in Humanities. This means that through this course you should have demonstrated knowledge of the conventions and methods of at least one of the humanities, not counting those that are covered by other relevant SUNY Gen Ed areas (i.e., Arts, American History, Western Civilization, Other World Civilization, Social Science).
You may need some preliminary extra help in thinking about what the humanities are in an academic context, in which case you might consult the entry in Wikipedia for Humanities. (From there, you might branch out into further resources as necessary.) Just remember that there is no hard and fast definition, and that the methods and conventions can vary widely as well, and are open to interpretationwhich should make it easier for you to consider some ways that you have dealt with some of them this term in your own work.
As you think about what the humanities can mean, consider how your work in this final draft demonstrates your knowledge of certain ideas, approaches, conventions, or methods of at least one of the areas considered humanities (not counting those humanities covered by other Gen Ed areas, such as American History, Western Civilization, Other World Civilization, or Social Science). Then, write a paragraph or two summarizing briefly why you think this work effectively demonstrates your understanding of some h