{"id":845,"date":"2017-02-14T17:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=845"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:33:27","slug":"my-research-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/02\/14\/my-research-update\/","title":{"rendered":"My Research Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the first few weeks of research, I\u2019m starting to develop an idea of what my topic will be. \u00a0I was really intrigued by our introductory reading in this unit, Deborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tacopedia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0Having grown up in and around Mexican culture, it was very interesting to read more about how corn became so vital to sustenance in early Mexico and to see how corn usage has evolved over time. \u00a0My initial interest with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tacopedia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> led me to look into other sources relating to Mexican food culture. \u00a0In research, I have found the UT Libraries scoUT function extremely helpful to finding relevant and credible sources. \u00a0One source I\u2019ve found that I think will make a really interesting addition is Gustavo Arellano\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taco USA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which recounts the importance of Mexican food in the melting pot that is United States food culture. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although I\u2019m finding plenty of sources, I\u2019m still struggling with finding a good way to organize them. \u00a0The traditional folder of web bookmarks isn\u2019t cutting it anymore, and I\u2019m wondering, what are you guys using to organize your documents and your thoughts about them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, I feel like my research is coming along nicely. \u00a0I believe that I\u2019ve settled on a good topic I have a lot of interest in. \u00a0I\u2019m still in the early stages of documenting my ideas about the sources I am finding, but I think I\u2019ve found many sources which will be complementary to my finalized annotated bibliography. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first few weeks of research, I\u2019m starting to develop an idea of what my topic will be. \u00a0I was really intrigued by our introductory reading in this unit, Deborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena\u2019s Tacopedia. \u00a0Having grown up in and around Mexican culture, it was very interesting to read more about how corn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}