English VII Unit 4 – Writing Project

Personal Diet Report Project Description and Criteria

Personal Diet Report

Description and Criteria

Objective
The objective of this project is to be able to covey in written form a prediction, description, analysis and assessment of
your eating habits based on keeping records of everything that you eat for two weeks.

Introduction
It is common to hear endless advice about diet, dieting, and healthy and unhealthy dietary habits. However, there are often
many more factors that people must consider when assessing their own dietary needs and habits. It is also uncommon for
people to base their assessment on factual data about their own dietary habits.

The idea of creating a personal diet report is to present in written form a personal perspective on your eating and dietary
habits based on keeping track of your eating habits for two weeks and to use the data collected to describe, analyze and
assess your diet in a way that implements information from discussions and topics in the Food and Health unit: different
diets and the food industry.

Final Product
A personal diet report that includes:
 an introduction
 a previous conception about your diet and your eating habits
 a one paragraph description of your eating habits over the course of two weeks
 a one or two paragraph analysis of your diet and eating habits over those two weeks
 a one paragraph assessment of your diet and eating habits based on the data collected and the analysis
 a one paragraph conclusion
 a record of your diet for two weeks including times, foods eaten, amounts and preparation methods where
relevant

Formatting requirements
The final personal diet report must:
 be on letter size paper
 use normal margins
 be justified (<Ctrl+J>)
 use one of the following fonts:
o Arial (10 point)
o Calibri (11 point)
o Times New Roman (11 point)
 use 1.5 spacing

Submission requirements
The final personal diet report must be submitted in two ways:
 a hard copy submitted to the teacher
 a digital copy uploaded into your personal folder in dropbox
Submission date- the day of the final exam

Guiding questions for writing your personal diet report

The following questions are presented as a type of brainstorming for you to generate ideas about how to write your report.
However, your report does not necessarily need to be limited to these questions. Your report should not simply be a list of
answers to these questions.
 Introduction
Consider the following questions or statements:
 What is the objective of the project?
 What is the process you used for gathering data?
 Before beginning the project what was your conception about what your diet is like? (required)

Description
Consider the following questions or statements:
 Describe your diet.
 Describe the foods you eat and beverages you drink.
 At what times do you eat and/or drink?
 How often do you eat and/ or drink?

Analysis
Consider the following questions or statements:
 What trends about your diet did you notice?
 What generalizations can you make about your diet?
 Are there things that you noticed by keeping track of your diet that you had not noticed before?
 Based on what you had previously said was your ideal diet (class 2), how well does what you ate
correspond to that ideal? (required)
 Did you notice any connection between your diet and your energy level, mood, etc.?

Assessment
Consider the following questions or statements:
 Is your diet healthy or unhealthy? Explain.
 What aspects of your diet are healthy or unhealthy?
 Are there adjustments you could/ should make to your diet? If so, what are they? If not, why not?
 How does your diet compare to your stated ideal diet?
 Did you become self-conscious about your diet by having to keep track of it?
 If it were up to you, would your diet be different from what it is now? If so, how? If not, why not?
 How did your diet compare to the conception that you had at the beginning of the process?

Conclusion
Consider the following questions or statements:
 What do think about the whole process of keeping track, describing, analyzing and assessing your diet
and writing about it?
 How did you feel throughout the process?
 Has undertaking this process changed your perception of your diet?
 After undertaking this process, what do you think your ideal diet is?

Grading Criteria
Written nutrition reports will be assessed in the following areas:
 content
Each report should contain:
 a one paragraph introduction
 one paragraph of description
 one to two paragraphs of analysis
 one paragraph of assessment
 a one paragraph conclusion
 a record of your diet for two weeks
 coherence and cohesion
 vocabulary, particularly the use of terms discussed in the unit related to diet and eating habits
 grammar, particularly the use of past and present tenses
  writing conventions (punctuation, spelling, capitalization)

The Writing Process

HW from previous class- ss. have begun keeping track of their diet

Class 1- Presentation- presentation of the personal diet report project

Prediction- make a prediction of what your diet is like, which will used in the final product
HW- continue keeping track of your diet

Class 2- Pre-writing- write a paragraph about your ideal diet, which will be used in the final product
HW- write a draft of the introduction of the report
continue keeping track of your diet

Class 3-
HW- continue keeping track of your diet

Class 4-
HW- finish keeping track of your diet
begin writing a draft of your report

Class 5- Editing- peer evaluation and editing of draft

Writing- begin writing final version of report based on feedback
HW- continue writing a draft of your report

Class 6-
HW- continue writing final version of report

Final Exam- turn in final version of personal diet report