What is the mentor text of choice?

I decided to analyze the Heat Map from Eater.com (an online source that delivers food news and dining guides from across the country through reviews, videos, articles from a variety of writers, etc.).

 

What is a Heat Map?

The Heat Map is a list curated by Eater of, “what’s new and what’s hot.” According to Eater, the Heat Map “reflects the city’s freshest restaurants where people are flocking to right now.” The Heat Map is updated monthly and it representative of particular cities.

 

What is included in the Heat Map?

The Heat Map includes a curated list of restaurants, the all-time favorites or go-to orders on the restaurant’s menu, the address of the restaurant, the direct link to the restaurant’s website (if one is available), directions to the particular spot, and most importantly, the Heat Map includes a visual of a map where each restaurant sits in a particular city. The restaurants are listed numerically, so they are easily distinguished on the visual map.

Eater includes that the restaurants are listed in a numerical order that is dependent on where they are located from North to South on Austin’s map… It is not a ranking.

 

So what?

I decided this would be an interesting genre to discover because it is unique in the sense of how much it offers on one simple website page. I initially discovered the Heat Map during the annotated bibliography project; I used a review from Eater, and after some light browsing, I found this fascinating guide and suggestion list of restaurants. Including the visual of the map and the restaurant’s location on the map, Eater supplies reading with a detailed description of where they could potentially be going to eat. I think this genre is so interesting because the map would drive readers to actually going to the restaurants, as they can visualize their commutes.

 

Chaudhury, Nadia. “The Hottest Restaurants in Austin Right Now, March 2017.” Eater Austin. Vox Media, 02 Apr. 2015. Web. 22 Mar. 2017.

 

http://austin.eater.com/maps/best-new-austin-restaurants-heatmap