Writing About Food

Catalog description

Study of the broad ways writers use their document design and communication skills to participate in food-related industries. Readings from current publications and practice in food writing through blog posts, creative nonfiction, instructions, restaurant and product reviews, recipe collections, posters, and research-based writing. This course provides students in technical writing, as well as those preparing for careers in food-based industries, with enough technical and rhetorical understanding to produce effective documents and writings in the broad range of styles and formats that include writing about food. May be taught concurrently with ENG 650. Cannot receive credit for both ENG 550 and ENG 650.