Assignment 3 English 103

Meggie Besaw

Assignment 3

English 102

   Bill Bryson Is a best selling author. He would write humorous books and books on traveling to science and English language. I think he has a very broad audience, people who are into amusing books can read his stuff and then people who are interested in a more serious learning book can read his work. I found At Home “Introduction” to be really interesting and made me think pretty deep about the things he said, all the whys and what ifs and from what I looked up about him the essay didn’t go along with his writing themes.

   After reading The Kitchen I found it interesting for only so many pages. It had a lot of information and was well addressed for a research paper but it was the same thing every other page just different food. I loved how it started off with a story I found that unique and more alternative then traditional, it made me want to read more about it. I don’t think that this fits one hundred percent in our academic model but I think it had traits that fit into it. It had a lot of information and the information was backed up. The story that drew me into wanting to read more in the first paragraph was a unique just like we talked about in class on Tuesday. Although it had a few things I think this class is looking for in a research paper I think that the essay had more traditional ways then alternative. I don’t think we are cutting out traditional completely because I think we need some traditional in a research paper to structure it I do think though that this essay had too much traditional and to much repetition with different types of food.

   Inquiry to me is when you analyze, look up, and find out about a topic. I think the essay had a lot of that and I think that is very important when writing a paper. The most important think I think about inquiry is when you look up and find out about that topic that you statistics and certain things to back that up. “Because bread was so important, the laws governing it purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker her cheated his customers were fined 10 per loaf sold, or made to do a months hard labor in prison”(The Kitchen, 68). That quote would be a prime example of inquiry. He learned about a topic even backed it up with what would happen. The only thing I’d change is find some hard evidence.