It’s true!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lisa: (gasps) It’s Tom Wolfe! He uses more exclamation points than any other major American writer.
Tom Wolfe: It’s true!!!!!

We’ll start, after a short period of psyching up (e.g. pounding our frontal lobes into dictionaries, cracking knuckles, trash talking Jonathan Frantzen), with the in-class rhetorical analysis essays.

Afterward, we’ll see our fellow students and note 2-3 elements: what elements are identifies, how the writer connects them to the purpose, writing style of the student.

Finally, let’s talk Boo.  Choose a paragraph to adopt and use it to make bigger points about her style, purpose, strategies, and attitude towards her subject.

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