What should I be talking about?

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timer Asked: Sep 15th, 2017

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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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