What should I be talking about?
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This is an example of the essay I want. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ySZSAV29f4FUV4...
it's an argumentative essay. You should follow MLA 8 formatting and citation rules.
This is what the professor want.
- We are looking for a place (a word/phrase/line) in the text
- We are conversing with:
- The author of the text
- The readers of the text
- People who might be interested in the topic
- Culturally neutral pre-writing questions--- who is the author writing to?
- The readers of our writing
- Don’t write to me!
- Culturally neutral pre-writing questions
- Decide who we’re writing to before we get started!
- Fascinates
- Amaze
- Something very interesting
- Shocks
- Surprises you very much
- Sometimes good, sometimes bad
- Can be a violation of your morals, and deeply offensive
- Can just be a ‘holy crap! That happened!’ moment
- Tension, in that this affects you deeply and sends your mind off in a million different directions
- Perplexes
- Makes you very confused/puzzled
- Don’t agree with--can’t quite figure out how everything fits together/doesn’t make sense
- Maybe someone is lying and you can’t figure out why they would say such a thing
- When I don’t know much about the subject, and the author gets into detail about it
- When the author intentionally uses difficult words/writes in an old fashioned way
- When the author goes off topic and it’s hard to see how things are connected
- Something odd that doesn’t seem to belong
- Ideas/stuff from unrelated cultures
- Gap
- Space between things-- something that should be there is missing
- When someone goes off topic, why are they doing so?
- Some explanation of things is missing in the text that is necessary to understand another part
- Sometimes we consider it worth it to track down this information and start a whole new hobby or area of inquiry in our lives
- Tension
- Stretched tight, mental or emotional strain
- The author is too tight in their definition/opinion and doesn’t make space for other ways of dealing with things
- The author only entertains their own narrow worldview
- The author is overly negative and doesn’t consider the positive
- Sometimes someone is trying to keep everything in line to show us a specific perspective or message, but that wasn’t the right choice and so not everything fits together quite right.
- Ambiguity
- unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.
- open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.
- We have to make a choice
- Call the author out on not making a choice
- Discuss why the author may have resisted making a choice
- Explain what we found ambiguous- and what we can learn from that ambiguity
- Difficulty
- Struggle- for meaning, for context, for specific answers, cultural differences and how hard they can be to understand
- Style of writing
- Find a place you didn’t understand and…
- First, point out the difficulty
- Say what you do understand
- Say what you don’t understand
- Fill in what you don’t understand
- Be curious about everything
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