>[!question] >**What’s the point** you want to make? >What’s your angle? >This is the _analysis/interpretation issue_ you need to get sorted out in order to write a coherent draft. So you know what you are aiming at. So you know how your argument ends. What is the [take home message.](https://patthomson.net/2013/10/17/does-your-paper-have-a-take-home-message/) The point of the pumpkin chapter is to provide historical and argument context for the rest of the details dissertation. *Shouldn’t intro do this?* ==Global food regimes restructure local food systems, shifting the locus of risks and types of crisis, and thus the resilience strategies in the local system.== Global food systems change risk in local food systems , and thus the resilience strategies Food regime change ## [a clear ‘take home message’](https://patthomson.net/2013/10/17/does-your-paper-have-a-take-home-message/) The ‘take-home-message’ clarifies thinking and focus on what people should remember most. - __Start__ the chapter so that everyone understands and signs up for the issue/problem. Articulate the line of ‘evidence’ and argument so the reader follows along to the conclusion. - __Be blunt__: write the point in a way you actually won’t say in the final text. - __Make one point__, make it clearly: Don’t try to deal with more than one idea. - __Finish__ every chapter with the key point that the reader should take into the next chapter, the one thing we really, really want them to remember. *Local food policy/actions should focus on resilience strategies that are based in local realities and informed by global and historical analysis*