{"id":867,"date":"2017-02-15T01:16:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=867"},"modified":"2017-02-15T01:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:16:41","slug":"research-update-nima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/02\/15\/research-update-nima\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Update (Nima)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an extremely busy week so far in regards to scheduling, exams, and internships, so I haven&#8217;t had much time to work on my research project. \u00a0I think I am doing fine so far, though, because I have already decided on a topic. \u00a0The topic I wanted to do my research on is pretty broad yet specific at the same time, since it is an ingredient. \u00a0I decided to do my annotated bibliography on avocados. \u00a0I have already looked on amazon for some books concerning avocados, and I also am going to check Wikipedia&#8217;s sources on the avocado article. \u00a0I will go through the UT library website as well, so I&#8217;m confident I will have plenty of material for my topic.<\/p>\n<p>One question I had for any of my class mates that read this: \u00a0What is your opinion on my chosen topic? \u00a0Is it too broad or too specific? \u00a0If it is too broad, how do you think I can narrow it down, and if it is too specific, what do you suggest?<\/p>\n<p>If the topic is too broad, one change I considered making is to change the topic to the cultivation of avocados over history, or the versatility of avocados. \u00a0Everyone knows that avocados have many uses, such as extracting their oils, using them for cosmetic benefits, and of course eating them. \u00a0Maybe there are some uses that are not as publicized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an extremely busy week so far in regards to scheduling, exams, and internships, so I haven&#8217;t had much time to work on my research project. \u00a0I think I am doing fine so far, though, because I have already decided on a topic. \u00a0The topic I wanted to do my research on is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","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\/867","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}