Rant away

I’ll give a short presentation of the Definition essay and then I’ll ask you to read…The Art of the Rant.

In an individual blog post, answer these questions:

1. What is a rant according to the author and why does the baseball example qualify?
2. How has the rant changed in the age of the Web?
3. Does this essay of definition look at negation, categorization, history, analysis, comparison, examples, results, or causes?
4. Quote from the article in a blog post to note which elements of the definition essay the author focuses on?
5. Are rants bad?  Should we indulge in them for no other reason then catharsis or expression? Or is the world already too mean?

The second half of class, you should either finish your personal essays or go on to figure out what you’re definition essays will be all about.