Food Writing

This week, our assignment was to write a piece of food writing of our choice; from food news to reviews. I chose to write a review of the Costa Coffee Cafe at Totton College. I chose to write it in the style of the Guardian Newspaper.

I found this article quite easy to write as I was writing about an my own personal opinion in the review, so it came very easily. Furthermore, although I am not particularly comfortable with writing reviews and food writing, as these are both relatively new areas for my writing development. However, as the Guardian is close to my writing style, this made it easier to write.

This is now the last assignment that we have to write for the course, so the next, and final blog entry will be an evaluation of the course.

Progress Update

We had no assignment to do this week, so instead we spend the time finishing up any outstanding work and make sure our portfolios are up to date.

I have completed and submitted all my work up to date now so I have no outstanding work.


Next week we will be writing a form of food writing of our choice.

Interviewing for Different Publications

For this weeks assignment, we had to write an interview for a different publication. These were randomly selected and I ended up with the fashion magazine 'Vogue'. This will help build my range of writing skills. This was challenging for me as I do not read a great read a great amount of magazine, also do not follow the genre, so it took more research than I had anticipated to find the correct writing style.

We were interviewing other members of the magazine, as the content was not particularly relevant, as this assignment was more to do with the writing style. I chose to write about the recent hot topic of the fashion designer, who had faced problems due to some anti-Semitic remarks he had made backstage.

This assignment would have been a lot more challenging, but I was paired up with someone who knew fashion, so the answer were very good, making the assignment a great deal easier.


The hardest part was trying to structure the interview as the publication uses a different style to most publications. Here is a link to the interview I based mine on:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/expert-advice/100722-jennifer-aniston-perfume-launch-har.aspx

Writing for Different Publications

We have now finished writing the articles for the magazine, so we are now moving on to tour own writing skills. For this assignment, we had to rewrite one of our articles (either one pre-magazine, or one that has been written for the magazine) and change the writing style to that of an alternative publication. I have chosen to rewrite my article against the rise in university tuition fees. Because my writing style has been described as 'Guardian', I have rewritten the article for the 'Mirror' publication.

To do this, it must be a lot more informal, using colloquialisms and simple vocabulary. Furthermore, the article has to be more politically bias, against the Coalition as this publication is strictly Labour in its political views. The Newspaper is often out to show up and mock David Cameron, and I must take this into account when rewriting my article.

I have now written this article up. I found it very hard to get into the writing style at first, as it was the opposite to how I would prefer to write. However, once I had start writing it began to flow a lot more. One problem I suffered was making the article long enough; writing for the Daily Mirror, I had to cut out great chunks of my original article, as they would not be suitable for the article.