As my primary audience knows, a rough draft of my research must be submitted in the form of a paper a week from today. In an attempt to get ahead, I am writing additional annotative bibliographies that will be due later in the semester, as I have found two books about obesity and its contributing factors. They prove to be both interesting and relevant.
An additional idea I had for my paper was to apply Lester's analysis chapter to some work of my own. I propose to compare package images of the food versus what they actually look like prepared by me. I believe that this approach will heavily improve my argument that sometimes food photography can be completely misleading.
Looking at my accrued research thus far, it is quite varied in content, with several perspectives, which will be helpful in supporting my work as well.
Lastly, I recently submitted a research proposal that was well-received except that I lacked a certain thesis framework, to which I will respond in this post. My current thesis is as follows:
"Manufacturers are contributing to obesity through the way that they market their products to consumers, using deceitful images of the product and other supporting images."
Hopefully that will clear up what this paper is specifically about because my purpose clearly follows from it, which is to make consumers aware of the messages they perceive from food marketing and to steer them away from unhealthy foods.
